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Family Matters: The Role of Parents in College Admissions

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Parents and guardians play a pivotal role in the college search and admissions process, often serving as trusted advisors, cheerleaders and financial planners. From merit and need-based to transfer and retention scholarships, review current scholarship offerings for incoming freshmen and expand opportunities where you can.

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How to Transfer to Vanderbilt 2024-2025

The Koppelman Group

Vanderbilt is also a fairly transfer-friendly school, more so than their peer institutions. They have a overall, first-year acceptance rate of 6%, but a transfer acceptance rate of 19%. Admission as a transfer is still very competitive at Vandy, so lets get into what you need to do to be a competitive applicant.

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The Common Data Set Explained: GPA, Test Scores, and What Colleges Really Want

Emerging College Consulting

If you’re helping a high school student research colleges, you’ve probably run into a lot of promotional language: small class sizes, holistic admissions, vibrant campus life. Where to Find a College’s Common Data Set Most colleges don’t link the CDS from their admissions page, but it’s publicly available.

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The enrollment cliff crisis: How to pivot, not panic

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Meet students where they are with direct admissions : Direct admissions programs streamline the application process and bring you to the students. In fact, 80% of the high school juniors we surveyed were more interested in colleges that offered direct admissions programs.

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UChicago Provisional Transfer Offer: What is It?

The Koppelman Group

The University of Chicago has been shaking up their admissions policies as of late, and it seems they have a new path to admission. This summer, UChicago added what weve been calling an ED0 option (more on that later), and recently, we became aware of UChicago offering students who applied ED and ED2 a provisional transfer option.

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The Real Playbook for International Student Recruitment in 2025

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administration, building a reliable admissions funnel seems to require a Ph.D. That means pre-sessional language support, credit-transfer pathways, and onboarding programs that help students land softly. It’s not just a nice touch, it directly improves yield and first-year retention. It’s more competitive.

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Cornell University Diversity Statistics

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Cornells retention rate of 97% of students returning after their first year is another sign that they feel supported and want to stay. The admissions process is need-blind for domestic applicants, meaning your ability to pay wont impact your chances of acceptance. International students need to focus on the CSS Profile.