Admissions Mom

JANUARY 24, 2024

If you’re reading this, you know the entire college admissions process is riddled with potential pitfalls and scary challenges. All of these hurdles inspire tons of anxiety among college-bound students. The threat of being rescinded — when a college revokes its offer of admission to a student — is scary for a reason. Interviews.

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The Koppelman Group

MAY 9, 2024

Vassar College in the city of Poughkeepsie, New York is a small liberal arts college in the heart of the Hudson Valley with the resources of a small city and only two hours north of New York City by train. It’s a college that is the best of every world. Achieving an acceptance to a dream school requires strategy and intention.

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Princeton College Consulting

MAY 12, 2023

W ith the common application personal statement and individual colleges’ supplemental essays, students applying to 10 -12 colleges (a reasonable number) may have to write 20 or more essays to complete their applications. Understand your essay as part of your whole application. Here’s how: 1. Analyze your Context.

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The Koppelman Group

JANUARY 31, 2024

Did you take a summer course on Bio at a local college? Do your application essays and recommendations reflect your strongest personal attributes? That sounded bad; don’t ignore that being empathetic is good. You can do this through your essays and recommendations. However, you can control your essays.

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The Koppelman Group

APRIL 18, 2024

Evanston and Chicago are only 12 miles apart, but offer two totally different campus environments, one in a college town and the other in a global city. We’re pros at helping top students get into their first-choice colleges. Not everything needs to be calibrated for a college outcome. You’re a kid. Enjoy yourself.

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College Wise

MARCH 24, 2023

If you're reading this, you likely hate writing essays. In this blog, you'll receive some good and bad news, but hopefully, by the end, you'll have some clarity on whether or not students can submit college applications without essays.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

JANUARY 3, 2024

If you hope to add your name to the Yale Law School alumni list, you probably already know that you’ll need stellar undergraduate grades and standardized test scores, stand-out personal essays, and that little, mysterious, crucial something extra to be a competitive applicant. How hard is it to get into Yale Law School?

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Admissions.Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

Every year students ask me the same question: “How long should my Common Application essay be?” ” I am never shy about providing them with the response that best summarizes how they need to approach both the Common Application essay and the Common Application in general: “Go Big or Go Home!”

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PrepScholar

MAY 3, 2023

If you’re applying for college, you might be wondering about ChatGPT college admissions’ potential. Should you use a ChatGPT college essay in your application ? What are the good and bad aspects of ChatGPT? Should you use ChatGPT for college essays and applications? Can colleges detect ChatGPT?

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Admissions.Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Here is a dirty little secret: some of the 2023-2024 Common App essay prompts will bring you down like quicksand while others give you the exact structure and framing that you need to show and tell a story that colleges will love. Learn more about my college admissions coaching services here.

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DC College Counseling

JUNE 12, 2023

BIGGEST COLLEGE-RELATED NEWS OF THE WEEK SUPPLEMENTAL ESSAY TOPICS RELEASED Several schools have begun to release supplemental essays for the 2023-2024 application cycle, including the University of Georgia, the University of Vermont, and the University of Miami. COLUMBIA DROPS OUT OF U.S. News & World Report.

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The Koppelman Group

MARCH 19, 2024

If you’re a bewildered college applicant, you’re in the right place. For one thing, there’s no data that can tell us in cold, hard numbers how much it impacts admissions decisions, and colleges don’t have a clear definition of what behaviors they interpret as meaningful displays of interest. Demonstrated interest is confusing.

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The Koppelman Group

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The college application process can feel like it slogs on forever, and it would have been really nice to have an acceptance to a top-tier school under your belt — or even to be done altogether if you’d applied Early Decision. The bad news is that you got bad news. The good news is that you didn’t get the worst news.

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The Koppelman Group

APRIL 30, 2023

Many colleges even prioritize applicants who have real-world work experience, so getting a job pays you at work and in the college admissions process. Because of this, a summer job is nearly always a great topic for a college essay. If you’re wondering what to write your college essay about, send us an email.

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The Koppelman Group

DECEMBER 1, 2023

COLLEGE LIST The news you probably didn’t want but knew was coming: you have to apply to more schools. A college town? ESSAYS Now you have your list, which means you have your list of ~ supplemental essays ~ to write. Most schools use some variation of the same two questions, a community essay and a why essay.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

JANUARY 16, 2024

Or, perhaps, you simply didn’t begin to take your grades seriously until the end of your college career. How much it matters will depend largely on the school and your other test scores, essays, and academic accomplishments. If you have a lot of research experience, be sure to foreground it in your personal and secondary essays.

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Ivy College Essay

AUGUST 14, 2022

The Easy Way: Picking a topic for your Common App essay is easy — but choosing the RIGHT topic for your Common App, as you probably know, as otherwise you wouldn’t be googling this question, is really very hard! Don’t be afraid to write down BAD ideas, too. Again, even if it’s BAD! Does it really suck?

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The Koppelman Group

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Middlebury College is a super small liberal arts school located in Middlebury, VT. The high school record is weighed heavily and candidates must be in good standing at their current college.” Write Good Essays Middlebury has one essay! This essay is kind of like a Why essay – one you wrote a lot as a first-year applicant.

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University Gurus

JULY 10, 2023

Writing college essays takes way more time and effort than anticipated. While you may be aware of the essay submission deadlines set by universities, there’s one deadline you might not be aware of—a self-imposed deadline on August 1st. Here, we’ll delve into why this deadline holds such importance.

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Essay Hell

AUGUST 6, 2023

Colleges and universities can no longer use your race as a factor in determining whether to accept you to their schools, since the landmark Supreme Court ruling on June 29th abolished most of Affirmative Action in our country. The most obvious place is in your college application essays. Feeling Pressure to Write About Race?

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Solomon Admissions

JULY 28, 2023

The Common Application is a centralized platform utilized by over 900 colleges to collect general information, input supplements & essays, and submit applications. Gone are the days of applying to seven colleges using seven different applications. Gone are the days of filling out each application via pen and paper.

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The Koppelman Group

OCTOBER 28, 2023

College admissions are insanely competitive these days. The first thing you should do is take a look at your college list. If you’re feeling confident, you might just want to proceed as planned with applying to your college list as is. You can schedule a call with us to adjust your college list! Like, really!

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This is a huge application submission month, since many colleges have EA (Early Action) and ED (Early Decision) deadlines on or around October 15 and November 1. Too many students obsess about their essay, but they do not have anyone read their entire application for them. just sounds like an all around bad idea.

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BestColleges

JANUARY 19, 2024

A BestColleges survey found that 43% of college students have used ChatGPT or a similar AI application, and 61% think AI tools like ChatGPT will become the new normal. Beyond the classroom, AI technology is also poised to impact college admissions , student retention strategies, and administrative efficiency.

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The Koppelman Group

MAY 2, 2024

The university is comprised of a collection of undergraduate colleges, and you should have the college you want to go to in mind as you plan your courses, your activities, and how you spend your summers. Altogether, across the various colleges, Cornell is home to over 16,000 undergraduate students from over 130 countries.

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The Koppelman Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

College admissions have undeniably become exceptionally competitive. First, we recommend taking a look at your college list. Polish Your Common App Next, take a look at your Common App essay. We advise our students to create really stand-out essays that allow their unique personality traits to shine through.

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BestColleges

JANUARY 18, 2024

The bad news? Pipeline programs for minority college students help attract potential students to legal education, and admissions offices pay closer attention to applicants who are low-income and first-generation students. … "This ruling is bad for health care, bad for medicine, and undermines the health of our nation."

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Admissions.Blog

JULY 22, 2023

Yale is the second Ivy League college to officially release its 2023-2024 supplemental essay prompts for first-year applicants. For instance, a few days ago, University of Virginia released an out-of-character new supplemental essay prompt that seemed to be created specifically in response to affirmative action being ruled unlawful.

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Great College Advice

JULY 29, 2023

What Is a Risky College Essay? In an interview that I read the other day, a former Dartmouth College admissions officer lamented the fact that students don’t take enough risks with their college essays. When a college is receiving thousands and thousands of applications from qualified students.

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The Koppelman Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Hamilton College is a small liberal arts school in Clinton, NY known for their open curriculum and liberal-artsy STEM programs. and their main requirement is that you’ve taken a semester or more of college classes. You’re already in college, so the best way to prove to them that you can handle college is by doing well, in college.

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Parry College Counseling: College Admissions Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

They are big on demonstrated interest (in-person visits, virtual visits, saying hello to admission reps at college fairs and events, solid “why American U?” ” essay, etc.) As with most colleges, they are also looking for solid academic preparation in the context of the student’s HS.

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The Koppelman Group

JUNE 20, 2023

There are 24 subsections of the Common App, not including the dozens of other ones within the specific college apps themselves. It says optional, but you always say there’s nothing optional in the college application process. ” If you took 6 college courses online (even without credit), we think that’s worth mentioning.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to write the perfect college essay? The details help make the painting interesting and raise questions in our minds about the central figure (which in your college essay would be you!). How to Write the Perfect College Essay: The Landscape Example Now take a look at this landscape by Pieter Bruegel.

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The Koppelman Group

MAY 8, 2023

Death is a universal human experience, but, while we love when students write about something universal for a college essay, death isn’t like other universals. In this post, we’ll outline how to figure out if you are someone who should write about death for your college essay.

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Great College Advice

JUNE 28, 2023

Write the Common App Essay Prompt 2 About Overcoming Obstacles or Challenges Writing a good essay for your Common Application is tough. But Common App essay prompt 2 can lead to some of the best final products that can help you get into the school of your choice. Common App Essay Prompt 2 Asks You to Reflect on Your Failures.

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The Koppelman Group

MAY 12, 2023

There is a lot of fodder in there for essays! It makes sense, then, that you would think to write about your family in your college essay. If you’re thinking about writing about family for your college essay, send us an email. We help students craft outstanding essays that lead them to their dream college.

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The Koppelman Group

JULY 22, 2023

Colgate University is a small private liberal arts college nestled in Hamilton, New York. With a 12% acceptance rate, you’re gonna have to write an essay or three. Ah, yes, the classic Why Us essay. Oh yeah, you’re gonna have to pick a major for the sake of this essay. They weren’t that bad. In 2023, it was 12%.

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