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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. . During this downtime, one thing to remember is you still have a lot to do to prepare for college. During this downtime, one thing to remember is you still have a lot to do to prepare for college. Take it all in stride. Believe In Yourself.
The Thoughtful College Search
JULY 11, 2022
Despite numerous attempts to institutionalize credentialing for college admission officers and school counselors, there is not a clear path for entry into the admission field, and we are still fighting the school counseling establishment to acknowledge that courses in college counseling should be a required part of graduate programs.
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Winning Ivy Prep
APRIL 25, 2023
This 2016-17 UC application year, you must write 4 short essays totaling 1400 words (350 word limit each). To give you some context, in previous years, students had to write 2 essays totaling 1000 words… So, you’ll have to come up with 2 more extra topics this year AND write more. This is a must.
College Essay Guy
JULY 13, 2023
Here’s what we mean: Probably every other time you’ve had a teacher talk about the “topic” of your essay, that teacher was referring to the thing you were actually going to focus on and write about. Your topic is you. There’s no such thing as a topic that works for everybody.
Shemmassian Academic Consulting
MARCH 9, 2023
A step-by-step guide to completing the AMCAS application for medical school the amcas application is used by most allopathic medical schools in the us What is the AMCAS application? It can be a confusing system to navigate, so we’ve broken it down into its tiniest components in this comprehensive AMCAS application guide.
Tex Admissions
MARCH 27, 2022
Check out my new book Surviving the College Admissions Madness and Youtube Channel How to apply to University of Texas at Austin Honors Programs Applying to an honors program at UT doesn't require much extra effort. What you select for your majors determine which honors programs you may be eligible.
Top Tier Admissions
JANUARY 13, 2023
For the past decade Harvard’s overall acceptance rate has sat between 4.50% and 6.38% (Class of 2016), but the 2020-21 and 2021-22 pandemic-era admission cycles saw a remarkable downshift (3.43% and 3.19%, respectively), no doubt the result of surging applicant volume brought on by the school’s test-optional admissions policy.
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