Ruffaloni

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The college recruitment landscape is shifting, and the latest data from the 2024 RNL High School Student College Planning Report (co-sponsored by Halda) paints a concerning picture for higher education institutions. High school students are feeling overwhelmed, under-informed, and surprisingly skeptical about the value of a college degree. If you’re in admissions or financial aid, these trends can’t be ignored – they threaten the very way you attract and enroll students.

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Solomon Admissions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

When putting together an incoming first-year class, college admissions officers spend a significant amount of time evaluating hundreds of factors to determine an applicant’s competitiveness for their institution. While many of these factors are important, it’s hard to overstate the value of leadership in college admissions. Their holistic evaluation process can be quite hard to… The post The Role of Leadership in College Admissions appeared first on Solomon Admissions Consulting.

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Ruffaloni

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

When election season rolls around, the world of digital advertising can feel like a wild storm—especially for higher education institutions. If you’ve ever noticed that your ads cost more during an election cycle, you’re not alone. But why is that happening? Let’s break it down. What’s driving up ad costs? Increased competition Political campaigns flood platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and other social channels with massive amounts of advertising.

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road2college

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Dear Roadie, Should my homeschooled daughter take the SAT or ACT if she also has dual enrollment credit? She’s been. The post Dear Roadie: Should My Homeschooler Bother Taking the SAT or ACT If She Has Dual Enrollment Credit? appeared first on Road2College.

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Ruffaloni

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In the face of two demograpic cliffs , institutions are seeking innovative communication strategies to better engage with prospective students. Consulting engagements like deep audits of current communications and implementation of newly designed message flow architectures can seem like a “sure thing” for improving enrollment numbers, but enhancing more foundational strategic elements is likely necessary before these moves can be completely effective.

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Top Tier Admissions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

California Institute of Technology, also known as Caltech, is a private research university in Pasadena, California known for its strong engineering program. Considered an Ivy Plus school, Caltech is one of the most selective “test-blind” colleges in the nation with a sub-3% acceptance rate for the Class of 2028. Caltech changes its supplemental essay questions every year and offers insight for applicants on its website : “Remember, Caltech is an unapologetic STEM institution.

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North Star Admissions Consulting

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

College Application Tips: How to Use AI in Your College Applications On November 1st, the majority of early action and early decision college applications are due. For the next five weeks I will share college application tips to help the whole process run smoothly. (Read previous advice about logistics , the common application form , the honors and activities sections , supplements , and the core essay.

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College Essay Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

You may not know this: some colleges consider whether you and your family can afford the tuition before offering admission. That may scare you into thinking that applying to college is out of reach if you can’t afford the high tuition costs at many US schools. But there’s a growing list of “need-blind” colleges. What does that mean? Put simply, “need-blind” means that a college does not consider your financial situation when making admissions decisions.

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College Transitions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Famous College Dropouts – Here you are, preparing for college, writing a million personal essays, taking the SAT, trying to be your best self. Why? Just so some college can accept you and you can pay tens of thousands of dollars for them to tell you that you need to go to graduate school? C’mon.

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College Essay Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Obviously, Yale University is one of the most prestigious universities in the world. So it’s not surprising if, as a high school student, you find yourself wondering about the Yale Young Global Scholars (YYGS) program. But you also wanna know if this two-week summer program is worth $6,500. Because that seems like a lot (because it is a lot, since $3,250/week is more than most human beings make).

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The Koppelman Group

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Princeton University offers a small-town college experience with an exceptional world-renowned education. We think of it as the suburban Ivy League. The undergraduate enrollment isn’t small, but it is manageable with 5,590 students. Students pick Princeton for a wide variety of reasons beyond brand recognition, but some of our favorites include that there is an enviable student-to-faculty ratio of only 5:1 and more than 400 international internship opportunities available to students.

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College Essay Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Curious about exploring a career path in journalism? The Princeton Summer Journalism Program (PSJP) can be a fantastic opportunity! What exactly is the Princeton Summer Journalism Program? Glad you asked. (Well, we asked for you, but…) PSJP is a FREE summer program at Princeton University for high school students who are in their junior year when the application opens (which is in December).

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College Transitions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This article will provide a scene-by-scene summary of Beowulf. If you’re like me, you probably have only the vaguest memory of studying Beowulf in high school. You might remember your teacher telling you that it’s one of the oldest works of literature in English.

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The Koppelman Group

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

If you applied to the University of Michigan Early Action, you were probably fairly confident that you had a chance of getting in. You certainly weren’t expecting a rejection, but even that may have been easier to handle than a deferral — or what the University of Michigan calls a “postponement.” The University of Michigan is one of the best public universities in the country, and the acceptance rate is 18%.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Everything you need to know about Duke premed, including premed requirements, the best extracurriculars, and the Duke premed acceptance rate LEARN HOW TO GET INTO MEDICAL SCHOOL AS A DUKE PREMED Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Duke premed requirements Part 3: Duke premed extracurriculars Part 4: Getting into medical school as a Duke premed - Part 1: Introduction While Duke University may be heralded as a basketball powerhouse, it also consistently ranks among the ten best universities in the countr

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Emerging College Consulting

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Learn how colleges offer accommodations and support for students with disabilities in this guide to navigating higher education services.

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Ruffaloni

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Growing online enrollment is one of the most effective strategies institutions can employ to counterbalance the oncoming shortfall of traditional undergraduates. But recent developments from both the EdTech industry and the U.S. government are complicating life for many institutions. Just as we enter the academic year in which the first of two demographic cliffs is projected to begin, some of the largest Online Program Management (OPM) vendors have experienced business disruptions and the U.S.

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