Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Most of the time, since I am in there so frequently, I don’t really stop and pay attention to most of them. But there are four pieces that I intentionally look at and consider regularly, because of how they impact and inform my work. The first is on the window sill behind my desk and is entitled “The Man in the Arena” from Teddy Roosevelt.

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College Essay Guy

MARCH 27, 2024

It doesn’t matter what time of year you read this blog post. There are grad school application deadlines coming up SOON. Grad school application deadlines vary way too much for one standard answer. whether you’re a domestic or international applicant), you may submit applications in the spring, summer, fall, or winter.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Re-upping this blog based on a few recent conversations with college and neighborhood friends who have kids in the admission process right now. What does that really mean?” (FYI My first thought was, “Really? He has one kid in college and two still in high school. Po-tay-toe, Po-taa-toe! We were SHOCKED!

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Ivy College Essay

DECEMBER 15, 2023

What to Do if You Are Waitlisted – Ivy League College Admissions Letter of Continued Interest: The College Waitlist What to do if you are waitlisted? College waitlists can be a frustrating experience for students. However, being waitlisted is not necessarily the end of the road.

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Berkeley² Academy

APRIL 6, 2024

As we move through the Spring semester, more and more college admissions decisions will be available to prospective students. In this blog, we’ll go through what being waitlisted means, what to do about it, and how to strategically move forward with other college decisions.

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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. Last year, 88% of students offered a seat in the first-year class at UChicago matriculated.

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Top Tier Admissions

MAY 11, 2023

Parents often ask us what their children can do in middle school to begin preparing for the college admissions process. You might be wondering, “Is it too early to think about college?” After all, college admissions officers generally only look at students’ high school records.

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The Koppelman Group

DECEMBER 9, 2023

But what you do next will determine whether you have a successful college admissions experience. First, let’s dig into the details regarding a deferral decision from Cornell. Cornell does not publish admissions statistics quickly, if at all, as of the 2019-2020 college admissions season.

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Admissions.Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Thus, starting on August 1, 2023, the seven prompt options first-year applicants will have to carefully choose from in order to write one strong essay of up to 650-words will remain as follows: Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it.

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College Essay Guy

MARCH 28, 2024

Want to minimize student loan debt while attending college or graduate school? How do you apply for the program? What types of jobs can you get? We’ll answer all of them (and more) in this guide so you know exactly what to do when you see your work-study award amount in your financial aid package. Let’s begin.

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College Essay Guy

MAY 9, 2024

We’re just going to say it… Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp is cool. You get to spend the summer playing music, dancing, performing in theater productions, writing your masterpiece, or creating visual art … and it’s in the woods! In a national forest! Blue Lake is interested in progress… it’s all about learning and growing.

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Admissions Mom

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Happy Mid-November Admissions Family, I just wanted to take a minute and share with you how grateful I am to each and every one of you who is out there reading my blog posts. It’s so nice to hear from you and learn how my posts can be helpful to you in your admissions journey. Provide any info colleges say they still need.

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SSA Online College Prep

MARCH 27, 2024

Learn about what exactly is the college essay ! Get advice on finding the perfect topic for your college essay and more! Get tips on the do’s and don’ts of writing the college essay! Read more college admissions tips on our blog ! What does that memory mean to you?

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Admissions Mom

JANUARY 5, 2024

Every year lots and lots of applicants are deferred from some of their favorite colleges. Now, what do you do with that deferral? For starters, it’s important to focus on whatever you might still need to do for your regular decision schools. Actually, do it. Don’t let this be you.

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EAB

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Blogs Why Enroll360 Match’s partnership with Naviance will transform college admissions With overall college enrollment continuing a decade-long pattern of decline, much has been said about the need to break down barriers inherent to the traditional admissions model. But these programs do not go far enough.

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DC College Counseling

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Over the next few weeks, many schools will release their early application decisions - especially those with binding early decision plans (some non-binding early action decisions will not come in until January or even February). We definitely do NOT recommend this approach! If Accepted: First of all, congratulations! Be engaged.

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Ivy College Essay

MAY 6, 2023

College Waitlists: How to Write a Good Letter of Continued Interest College waitlists can be a frustrating experience for students. After putting in countless hours of hard work and dedication towards their college applications, being put on a waitlist can feel like a rejection.

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The Koppelman Group

DECEMBER 21, 2023

While this blog is part of a series we are doing about getting into the schools of the New England Small Collegiate Athletic Conference (NESCAC), Tufts is kind of an outlier. What is Tufts looking for? This document is a full slay for people who care too much about admissions data. They aren’t supposed to do this.

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Niche

APRIL 24, 2023

Want to keep updated about the blog? With the upcoming Supreme Court decision around using race in admissions looming this summer it’s important for colleges to proactively find ways to maintain their gains through incentives for low-income and first-generation students, among whom underrepresented minorities are overrepresented.

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CTK College Coach

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I Got Accepted to My Early Decision College! After all your hard work, an acceptance to your ED school is the best news ever. I Got Accepted to My Early Action Restrictive College! You may keep your applications in at other schools and even apply to additional schools. I am so excited for you. Go right ahead!

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CTK College Coach

DECEMBER 10, 2023

I Got Accepted to My Early Decision College! After all your hard work, an acceptance to your ED school is the best news ever. I Got Accepted to My Early Action Restrictive College! You may keep your applications in at other schools and even apply to additional schools. I am so excited for you. Go right ahead!

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CTK College Coach

DECEMBER 9, 2023

I Got Accepted to My Early Decision College! After all your hard work, an acceptance to your ED school is the best news ever. I Got Accepted to My Early Action Restrictive College! You may keep your applications in at other schools and even apply to additional schools. I am so excited for you. Go right ahead!

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Admissions Mom

MARCH 6, 2024

? Hello, beautiful seniors and other applicants. Often, colleges will call you about a waitlist offer before they email you or text you, so they need to be able to reach you. Often, colleges will call you about a waitlist offer before they email you or text you, so they need to be able to reach you. tty for a lot of you.

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Anna Ivey Consulting

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Recommendations that Boost Your Chances for College Admission Now that your senior year is underway, it's time to line up your recommenders – they are key allies and advocates in this process. WEEK 37 TO-DOS THIS WEEK Confirm what recommendations and supporting documentation from your high school (transcript, etc.)

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Admissions Village

APRIL 22, 2023

PART 2: College Admissions are increasingly more unpredictable for everyone, colleges included. The downside to a more robust, diverse applicant pool is that college admissions are increasingly more unpredictable. To combat this, students are often applying to more colleges than they used to.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I know at best this title sounds paradoxical and at worst—actually, not sure what worst would be. Good news- that’s not this blog. On Sunday night, along with my colleague, friend, and co-author Brennan Barnard, I submitted the updated manuscript of our book to publish a second edition. Here’s What I Don’t Know.

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The Koppelman Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Bates College is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine. This New England Small College Athletic Conference School sits on 813 acres of pure Maine scenery, and the college maintains 600 acres of nature preserve, aka “Bates-Morse Mountain.” What does Bates look for? These are how you will be evaluated.

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Next Admit College Admissions Blog

JANUARY 29, 2023

This post will break down Columbia’s application requirements to help you perfect your Columbia application. Columbia University Statistics Rankings & Enrollment With a 3.73% acceptance rate for the class of 2026, it is clear that the Columbia University experience is one of the most sought after. ACT scores average 34.

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Ivy College Essay

MAY 14, 2023

If you’re currently enrolled in another college or university, and you’re considering transferring to Harvard, you’re not alone. Worth noting: I’m a former Harvard admissions interviewer and a Harvard graduate myself. You never know if you don’t try!

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College Essay Guy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

They’re just a few distinguished graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). So, if you're considering applying to HBCU schools, you're not only considering where to go to college. We hope to change that with this blog post! TABLE OF CONTENTS (click to skip ahead) What are HBCU schools?

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Admissions Mom

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Hello Admissions Family, It may not feel like fall here in Texas, but to me, Labor Day is the real beginning of the season. As we enter the early fall, the mid-admissions-season stretch here in the admissions journey, I wanted to check in with a few reminders. TEST OPTIONAL OR NOT?

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EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

Blogs 6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023 For the past two years, it’s been difficult to focus on anything beyond the immediate consequences of the pandemic. But now as we find ourselves stabilizing, it’s time to pause and take stock of the full landscape facing community colleges. for 16–24-year-olds.

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College Essay Guy

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Because the application process can seem fairly mysterious (Though it doesn’t have to! students and families (understandably) often ask us what colleges are looking for in students they admit and how to maximize their chances of standing out in selective college admissions. What do colleges look for besides grades?

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HelloCollege

AUGUST 18, 2023

Do you find yourself curious about what it takes to become part of the vibrant community at Auburn University? High School Transcript and Grade Point Average (GPA) One of the foundational aspects of your application is your high school transcript. Are you a high school student with aspirations of becoming an Auburn Tiger?

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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. Or maybe the campus culture isn’t what you hoped. military veterans.”

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Essay Hell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Sorry, Artificial Intelligence Won’t Save You From the Dreaded College App Essay. See below for what it wrote when I entered: “Write a college application essay”) My goal was to see if ChatGPT could write a college application essay. At the moment, the ChatGPT model is free.

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College Essay Guy

MARCH 27, 2023

After UT Austin received 66,043 applications in 2021, a growing number of prospective students are keeping the UT Austin admissions team busy. If you’re planning to apply, then this guide to the UT Austin admission requirements will help you understand how to craft a standout UT Austin application.

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