Admissions Mom

MARCH 6, 2024

tty for a lot of you. Here’s the deal: If you’ve been waitlisted, you have some decisions to make… Let’s get started! Here’s the deal: If you’ve been waitlisted, you have some decisions to make… Let’s get started! You can handle this. Don’t check obsessively.

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CTK College Coach

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Early decision (ED) and early action (EA) results are rolling in this month, and many of you are getting the results you want. I am so excited for you. I Got Accepted to My Early Decision College! After all your hard work, an acceptance to your ED school is the best news ever. You are not alone.

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DC College Counseling

DECEMBER 1, 2023

If you aren’t sure when to expect decisions from the schools on your list, check out this website for expected dates and times. Make sure to consider where you want to be when you receive your decisions. You need to be able to have an honest, emotional response. We definitely do NOT recommend this approach!

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The Koppelman Group

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Are you dreaming of going to Amherst? If you are looking for rigorous small schools on the East Coast, Amherst is probably high on your list. However, you might be asking yourself, can I get in? You might be saying, “That sounds great! What’s the catch?” What is Amherst looking for in a candidate?

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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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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

APRIL 30, 2023

Because both of our kids have practice or other obligations most nights, we do not watch much TV in real time. Then or now? They contend there are some funny spots out there currently, and they even pulled up a few on YouTube that I can’t remember right now (because they weren’t funny). All you do is say ‘No’.”

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Admissions Village

APRIL 25, 2023

Part 3: This Process Is Opaque In the first part of this series, we discussed the role that the rise of test-optional (it is now optional to submit standardized test scores, SAT or ACT, at most colleges) has played in opening up the applicant pool to highly selective colleges. What can we say about test-optional admissions policies today?

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The Koppelman Group

JULY 3, 2023

It’s half deferral, half transfer, and they’re basically saying “ we think you’ve got the goods, we just want you to prove it.” If you’ve chosen to accept your TO, heck yeah, we love it. and b) making sure you do everything in your power to have a successful first year of college. What are my requirements?

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DC College Counseling

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

If you can’t keep these policies straight, you aren’t alone! The main difference seems to be that the test-flexible policy offered candidates the chance to substitute their AP or IB scores for SAT or ACT scores, if they chose to do so. On Wednesday, a UGA freshman died by suicide in his dorm room.

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The Koppelman Group

MAY 25, 2023

Since it's a complex question, we wanted to break down the ins and outs of Stanford legacy admissions and what your legacy needs to get in. What is Stanford’s legacy acceptance rate? If you do your research, you will see a lot of 3rd party blogs claim it is 17%. Why do we think that?

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The Koppelman Group

APRIL 22, 2023

We constantly talk to parents who are confused by legacy admissions and what it means for their students, so today we wanted to break down everything we know about Dartmouth legacy admissions and what parents need to do if their legacy is dreaming of Dartmouth. Second, the overall acceptance rate has fallen.

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The Koppelman Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Their acceptance rate has been dropping recently, with last year’s acceptance rate hovering at 13%. So low, you might ask yourself, “Can I even get into Bates?” It’s a good question and one that we want to help you answer by breaking down the ins and outs of how to get into Bates College. What does Bates look for?

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CTK College Coach

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

I Got Accepted to a College! You may start to get acceptances from rolling and early action schools now. Keep track of anything required, but in general, you should hang tight even while the school sends you approximately 967 emails each day pressuring you to commit. You are all set.

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The Koppelman Group

APRIL 16, 2023

In turn, this has driven down its already competitive acceptance rate. Right now, its acceptance rate sits at about 5%. So today we want to talk about what legacy admissions actually look like at Brown and what legacies can do as candidates to help stack their decks. So what’s up with legacy admissions?

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Heller Admissions Blog

MAY 18, 2023

Two years ago, I accepted my admission offer to attend Heller, and now I am sitting here two years later to tell you that I have completed all program requirements and will be graduating May 21st, 2023. It is May 2023 and you were able to complete not one, but two degrees during a global pandemic. Cheers to that!

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The Koppelman Group

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The UC system is made up of nine different colleges (UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, UC Riverside, and UC Merced), all with varying acceptance rates, admissions requirements, campus ~vibes~, and class sizes. Whatever you choose to write this one about, tell it as a story.

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College Essay Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

What can you do to make your personal statement better, and why is the essay more important for some schools than it is for others? Keep reading to discover the answers you need to create a killer college essay! Remember, most colleges in America accept a majority of applicants. How important is the college essay?

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DC College Counseling

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

I think it’s safe to say that blogging might be a little bit more sporadic until mid-October, but we’ll get back to our normal posting schedule soon enough :) BIGGEST COLLEGE-RELATED NEWS OF THE LAST FEW WEEKS US NEWS MAKES SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES TO METHODOLOGY U.S. No kidding, I have started this post about ten times.

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Admissions Mom

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

If you’re reading this, you know the entire college admissions process is riddled with potential pitfalls and scary challenges. Kids often wonder, what did that person do to deserve that? Oh no, what if it was only a little bad? What if I do something only a little bad and I lose my spot? Interviews.

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SSA Online College Prep

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Are SATs a detractor to BIPOC acceptance? Discover more SAT tips on our blog! If you're having a digital test, then you should be able to take it at home on your laptop, right? For example, if I were to ask, “What’s 11 x 45?”, How The Pandemic Remade the SAT Learn about the changes made to the new Digital SAT !

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College in 321

APRIL 5, 2022

Rather watch our College in 3-2-1 YouTube blog video on this topic? If you like the video, please give us a like! For brevity, we will use “AP” to represent the process for each type of possible college credit in this blog. . Determine if there is a maximum number of AP credits/courses a college will accept. Click here .

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Admissions Mom

MARCH 10, 2023

Look, I know this week and the next couple of weeks will feel just super f *d up and shitty for a lot of you. Here’s the deal: If you’ve been waitlisted, you have some decisions to make… Let’s get started! And be sure that the number they have is the one you will be checking. You can handle this.

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The Koppelman Group

JULY 24, 2023

So, kid, you wanna apply to the University of Texas at Austin? Note: although this blog is not a car commercial, we’d still like you to imagine the iconic rumble of a Matthew McConaughey voiceover here). UT-Austin has one of the longest supplementary applications out there, so you can’t leave it till the last minute.

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Niche

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Want to keep updated about the blog? As I did in 2022, it’s time to make some predictions about what 2023 will look like. Using our student survey data and what we’ve seen this year from Niche Partners I’m making 6 predictions for the coming year. On your inquiry forms, it can be helpful for students to know what to expect.

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Admissions Mom

AUGUST 17, 2023

So here’s the deal: after reading thousands of essays over the last couple of years, I know you have it in you to write a strong, heartfelt, personal, personal essay. So, I’m sharing with you the exact steps I use with my own students to get them to dig down and find their amazing essay inside. It’s there. I promise.

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Admissions Mom

JUNE 22, 2023

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. You have plenty of time to get all this done. My philosophy is that it’s good to hear different thoughts and ideas, and then you can make decisions about what works best for you.

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Admissions Mom

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

I hope you are all staying healthy and as relaxed as possible in our special 2023 version of senior year craziness. Warning: these updates and reminders are loooooong… and there’s a lot of information, but I just wanted you (and your parents) to see it all written out, so if there’s anywhere you need to catch up, you can know.

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SSA Online College Prep

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Remember, there are certain cases where you can’t change your major ! Why you should gain experience in the field. Read more college admissions tips on our blog ! You studied, got the grades, and finally been accepted into your perfect college. You’ve made it this far- but what happens next?

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The Enrollment Marketer

MARCH 8, 2023

That might make you think that HubSpot wouldn’t have the infrastructure needed to support your admissions team for ongoing student recruitment. What is HubSpot’s deal pipeline? But HubSpot isn’t branded as a platform made for education marketing or the admissions world. The pipeline is meant to begin where the marketing funnel ends.

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Heller Admissions Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As I sit 4 months removed from when I first arrived in Waltham, I can certainly say it feels like I just got here yesterday. But now that readings and assignments are on pause until the new year, I want to take time to reflect on my learning experience during my first semester at Heller. Turns out, I was right.

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The College Solutions Blog

JULY 11, 2022

How do you research financial aid and merit scholarships that a student might get at individual colleges and universities? Not knowing how to research the generosity or stinginess of individual colleges can cost you tens of thousands of dollars extra or much more. You will first notice that only 61.1% Using CollegeData.

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College Essay Guy

DECEMBER 30, 2022

So, you’ve decided you want to don the Harvard crimson, eh? You open your computer, beginning that ever-so-thrilling application process, to discover two different Harvard sites? What is the difference between college and university? Where do I start? Where do I start? What is happening? Overwhelm sets in.

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The Koppelman Group

AUGUST 26, 2023

It welcomes the free spirit (its “open curriculum” means you have no core requirements), and there’s no shortage of academic options despite its size and rural location. That being said, Amherst’s incoming Class of 2027 only had a 9% acceptance rate, so getting in is a doozy. And if that doesn’t sound cool to you? Be personal.

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EAB

AUGUST 23, 2023

Blogs Are you meeting students’ basic needs? I remember working food service jobs so it would be easier to eat, needing to move constantly as rent got too high, and scrounging to afford my bus pass. Why do we need a basic needs infrastructure? And even if I had known, I would have been too intimidated to seek them out.

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The College Solutions Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

First, let’s break down what each is. Students, whose academic statistics put them into the lower 25% of accepted applicants in the most recent completed admission season, would be applying to a reach school. In this example, the top 25% of accepted students would have had an SAT score above 1260. Reach schools.

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Essay Hell

JUNE 19, 2019

Many of you are already out for summer, or at the finishing line. If you’re now officially an incoming high school senior, or soon to be, it’s time to get cranking on your college application essay. I’m sure you have heard that summer is the ideal time to start the brainstorming and writing process.

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Tex Admissions

MARCH 26, 2022

Taking on loans is one of the most consequential decisions you will ever make, which is especially difficult since you will be only 17 or 18 years old. If you’re applying nationwide, you can expect to spend upwards of at least 100 hours on your applications. My philosophy had always been: if you want to apply, go for it.

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