College Essay Guy

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Continue to build your high school transcript with advanced-level classes, such as honors or AP classes —not a requirement, but these classes can help if you're applying to competitive colleges. Summer before your senior year If possible, visit and go on campus tours of the schools on your college list. But don't be fooled.

Standardized Testing 52

Standardized Testing Early Decision Transcripts Financial Aid 52

Shemmassian Academic Consulting

MARCH 5, 2024

Now med schools are sending you school-specific secondary applications that require you to write additional essays? Given that you’ll need to submit multiple essays for most med schools you’ve applied to, the secondary essay writing process can be incredibly grueling, even more so than completing your primary application.

Minor 98

Minor Out-of-State Applications Admissions 98

Shemmassian Academic Consulting

APRIL 28, 2023

Anita, our humanities-oriented student, writes that she’s interested in studying history, and includes a tidbit in her “Why Yale” essay from the campus tour she was able to take about how Yale’s architects were so obsessed with the past that they built the campus to look even older than it is. Unfortunately, no.

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Applications Extracurricular Campus Tours Admissions 98