Ivy Central

APRIL 27, 2023

The Claremont Colleges is a consortium of five undergraduate liberal arts colleges and two graduate institutions, namely Pomona College, Claremont Graduate University, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer College, and Keck Graduate Institute. female and 46.9%

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A guide to the standardized test that determines National Merit and prepares students for the SAT. If you’re the parent of a high school senior, your child is likely focusing on the ACT or SAT , the standardized tests that are a crucial part of college admissions. The PSAT is designed to test preparedness for the SAT and for college.

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SSA Online College Prep

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Make a college list and tour schools that you want to go to! Research colleges, programs, and scholarships that might interest you! Check out our advice for sophomores ! Read more about the SAT on our blog ! Here are 5 things to do during junior year to best prep yourself for college applications and admissions.

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CTK College Coach

MAY 24, 2023

If you are going to be a junior next school year (Class of 2025), you are in the trial year for the new digital SAT because the College Board announced last year that it would be moving the SAT to a digital, adaptive format for spring 2024. CTK College Coach. Are Many Colleges Still Test Optional?

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SSA Online College Prep

APRIL 13, 2023

Summer is an important time to think about preparing for college, but there are so many competing priorities that it can be hard to decide the best use of your time. While you’re thinking about what’s most important to you, it may also be helpful to consider what colleges prioritize. So many summer college prep options!

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Marks Education

APRIL 18, 2023

For more information on the new version of the test, check out our blog on the new digital SAT ( LINK ). Should you try to rush to prepare for the paper SAT and hope to be finished with testing before the new digital SAT replaces the paper version next year? Read the following FAQs if you are a current US high school student.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Feel free to message me if you are a big Feb fan, but it’s going to take a lot to turn me on this one, because in college admission land it’s also mid-cycle. How many applications did you receive this year? Wait ’til After February!) A few years ago, I wrote a blog entitled College Admission- What the Funnel?!

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The Koppelman Group

JANUARY 31, 2023

You are about to finish your sophomore year and become a *rising junior* and all that entails. You know, from your older friends and family scaring you, that junior and senior year get intense. And so in preparation for this more challenging year, you might be tempted to take it easy this summer.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

JULY 20, 2023

If you are a rising junior, the most important thing you can be doing right now to prepare for college is recharging and heading into the school year rested and ready. Junior year courses are challenging, and often you have a heavy academic load as well. You come here for groundbreaking clarity). That’s perfect.

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Peterson's Blog

MAY 31, 2023

The ACT and SAT exams can determine the path you take into college. Pick Your ACT Test Date Strategically Peterson’s recommends taking the ACT in the early fall of your junior year. Pick Your ACT Test Date Strategically Peterson’s recommends taking the ACT in the early fall of your junior year.

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The Koppelman Group

MARCH 7, 2023

But, if you’re here reading this blog, you’re probably an ambitious student with dreams of top-tier colleges. And students who want to go to top-tier colleges know they need to start preparing for the college admissions process now. But no, you can’t put preparing for college admissions off.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Just didn’t want you canceling this blog based on the wrong idea.) Anyway… none of these or the other options sounded great to me. I actually find would you rather instructive for college admission, because ultimately, (just like the colleges I wrote about last time ) having choices and options is the goal for students and applicants.

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College Essay Guy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Applying to college can be nerve wracking, especially for students who want to study business and are unsure about the subfields and specializations within it. If so, you should incorporate certain themes into your extracurricular activities and projects, as this shows colleges that you're serious about the business degree.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Blogs How 1,000+ prospective HBCU students conducted their college search Key insights from our 2023 Student Communication Preferences Survey The recent Supreme Court decision on affirmative action has many HBCU leaders wondering whether they’ll see an influx of enrollment for fall 2024. By the end of sophomore year, 50.7%

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Top Tier Admissions

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As college students return to campus for a new semester, some are considering what it would take to transfer to a new school. In fact, as we’ve noted before , almost one-third of students will transfer at some point during their college career. Timing: Students seeking to transfer can apply for entry as sophomores or juniors.

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CTK College Coach

JANUARY 25, 2022

Here’s What That Means for You: The College Board announced today that it will be moving the SAT to a digital, adaptive format. This means that current juniors and sophomores will still be prepping for and taking the SAT on paper. Are Colleges Still Test Optional? It’s True: The SAT Is Going Digital. You betcha they are.

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EAB

JULY 17, 2023

Blogs Are you prepared to recruit ‘Gen P’? 3 ways the pandemic changed college search behavior from our new survey of 20K+ high school students When was the last time you saw a teenager willingly answer a phone call? For more than a decade, we’ve asked high school students about their college search preferences and behaviors.

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CTK College Coach

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

As my high school seniors start sending in applications this month, I am thinking about the freshmen and sophomores who are both so far and so close to that moment themselves. Sitting on the baseball sidelines and chatting at the town pool, my friends ask me all the time: When is the time to start looking at colleges? Read more.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

APRIL 16, 2023

Equal commitment is expected from every Dartmouth student as they navigate through 2100 available courses every year, over 60 possible majors, and gain hands-on experience with internships, research opportunities, and travel abroad programs. This kind of calendar calls for careful planning, but there’s no need to stress.

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The Ivy Dean

MARCH 21, 2022

With summer quickly approaching and things finally beginning to return to normal, this is an important time for students in their freshman, sophomore or junior years of high school. By beginning to prepare now, you can make the entire process much easier and significantly increase your chances of acceptance.

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Niche

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Want to keep updated about the blog? Travel activities, high school visits, and college fairs were cited as less influential and weren’t used as often to discover and learn about new colleges. Of students who met with colleges during a small group meeting, 39% said that it could significantly affect their interest.

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CTK College Coach

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Finally, some schools offer the PSAT to sophomores and even freshmen for early practice. Log into College Board with the student’s email and password and then navigate to the PSAT page. Do Colleges See My PSAT Scores? Bottom line : Colleges don’t see these scores unless a test taker has chosen to share them.

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CTK College Coach

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Finally, some schools offer the PSAT to sophomores and even freshmen for early practice. Do Colleges See My PSAT Scores? All of these tests are intended to help students prepare for college entrance exams, and they have no effect on getting into college. Those early tests are not part of the NMS search process.

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Princeton College Consulting

MARCH 15, 2023

“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows” - Ralph Marston With college admissions decisions continuing to roll in and with the May 1st commitment date less than two months away, you will be making important decisions of which college to attend. Tip: Create a different future resume for each school you are considering.

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College Essay Guy

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The short answer is yes, you can apply to college as a junior. Should I apply to college as a junior? First off, applying to college during your junior year is typically only done by students with nearly perfect GPAs and test scores who are seeking a competitive edge in the admissions process. But … should you?

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Bright Futures Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

It’s the time of year when you can put your school books away for 2-3 weeks. . Some students fill this time by working jobs to save for college. During this downtime, one thing to remember is you still have a lot to do to prepare for college. Bright Futures can help you prepare and nail your college admissions process.

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College Essay Guy

MARCH 17, 2023

You’re starting to think about applying to college , and that is HUGE. What is a good PSAT score National Merit Scholarship PSAT score Do colleges care about PSAT scores? The PSAT stands for Preliminary SAT, and sophomores and juniors take it in October (although there are different tests for 8th and 9th graders).

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Admissions Mom

JUNE 22, 2023

Happy Summer, Rising Juniors and Seniors (and Sophomores hold on to this)! This is basically an abbreviated version of pretty much everything I say throughout the year; hopefully, it’s organized in a way you can find useful. Junior year is where your college admissions journey starts for real.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Therefore, efficiency is key during your undergraduate years, and perhaps beyond. Part 2: How to get into dental school: A four-year guide There’s no single formula or process to follow in order to get accepted to dental school. Most students take the DAT between the summer after their sophomore year and the summer after junior year.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

I appreciate Dr. Nguyen providing well- researched phrasing to what I tried to articulate with fewer citations (but more puns) in my blog : “What are you Strava-ing for?”, As a high school student, now is a common time to be selecting classes for next year. What are you chasing—the grade or the preparation? What is driving me?

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 27, 2024

LEARN MORE Pomona College In the category of liberal arts colleges, the psychology department at Pomona is one of the strongest. Psych students at Pomona have the advantage of an expansive course catalog thanks to the seamless integration of departments across all five of the Claremont Colleges situated within the same square mile.

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College Essay Guy

MARCH 11, 2024

What grades do colleges look at? The simple answer is, they look at all of them (at least all of your high school grades… click here to learn about how middle school grades factor in college applications ). But, while colleges do look at all of your grades, not every grade is created equal from an application standpoint.

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University Gurus

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

By Jessica Chermak & Sawyer Earwood As Independent Educational Consultants and Certified Educational Planners, a major piece of our professional development is visiting colleges. When we go on college tours, we try to visit as many schools as possible and aim to focus our energies on schools in which most of our students are interested.

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Tex Admissions

JULY 27, 2023

Longhorns at the Fort Worth Stockyards In this post, I cover what pre-med does and doesn't mean, best practices for applying to pre-med, what pre-med means for your college search and list, how many pre-med freshmen become physicians, medical school course prerequisites after arriving on campus, and a critical take on combined BS/MD programs.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

APRIL 24, 2023

College essay examples from students accepted to Harvard, Stanford, and other elite schools REVIEWING SUCCESSFUL COLLEGE ESSAY EXAMPLES CAN HELP YOU UNDERSTAND HOW TO MAXIMIZE YOUR ODDS OF ACCEPTANCE Responding effectively to college essay prompts is quite different from other essay writing. Put yourself in your reader’s shoes.

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Tex Admissions

MARCH 27, 2022

Ten years ago, UT received less than a thousand CS applicants. Check out my new book Surviving the College Admissions Madness and Youtube Channel Computer Science Self-Taught Computer science connects many disciplines beyond programming and computing. When I was 11 years old, my Dad made me burn hundreds of his old CDs onto iTunes.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

MAY 8, 2023

Drexel Med School is aware of its rich history and traces its roots back to the merger of two former medical institutions: Hahnemann Medical College, founded in 1848, and the Women’s Medical College, founded in 1850, as the world’s first medical college for women. Want to learn how?

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