Great College Advice

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

This week, Great College Advice’s Jamie Berger discusses Prompt 2 of the Common App essay, which he (affectionately) calls “the failure prompt”. Here’s the prompt : The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?

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#LetsBFRANK: The College Admissions Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

The college has elected Liberty Mutual executive Dr. Tiffany Dotson and environmentalist and entrepreneur Peter Bauer as new additions to its Board of Trustees. These individuals bring remarkable leadership skills and international business experience to a diverse and robust board dedicated to continuing the college’s mission of delivering transformative technical and trade education that leads to economic advancement for its graduates.

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The Koppelman Group

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Princeton is an Ivy League liberal arts university that is known by name around the world. It honestly needs little introduction, but hopefully we can add some detail and color beyond what you may know from prestige and pop culture reference. The University has 5,590 undergraduate students and a highly-residential campus. Princeton has a highly residential campus, with 96% of students living on the Princeton, New Jersey campus, an hour or so from NYC.

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The Koppelman Group

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

If you are reading this post, a deferral was not part of the plan. You applied to Tufts early decision because you wanted certainty. If you got in, you’d be set. If you didn’t, you’d know Tufts wasn’t in the cards. But now you’re on the receiving end of a deferral decision and it’s not a yes or a no, but a very unsatisfying maybe. There’s little more known about Tufts admissions aside from the acceptance rate, which is 10%.

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