Excelsior Admissions Consulting

MARCH 30, 2021

After filling in your profile information, start your college applications with this section. Organizing and describing your activities will communicate your interests and passions to college admissions officers. If you are applying to selective colleges, the majority of applicants will have high GPAs and test scores, the Activities Section is one of the places where you can demonstrate your individuality.

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College in 321

MARCH 19, 2021

Now’s a Great Time for a College Prep Check-up. Here’s a Spring List for Rising 9th-12th Graders. by Kathy de Jong, Independent Educational Consultant. Thank goodness we are entering the home-stretch of the 2020-2021 school year! But before parents and students check-out for the summer, it’s important to know what should be done in the coming months to stay on top of college prep. .

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CampusESP

MARCH 17, 2021

Parents are an institution’s top promoter for recruitment, retention, and student success. At CampusESP, we’ve helped over 160 colleges and universities leverage the power of parents with a coordinated, personalized communication plan. We’ve analyzed more than 18 million clicks from more than 1.5 million families using CampusESP in order to understand what information they need– and when.

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Princeton College Consulting

MARCH 14, 2021

Welcome to the 5-part ACE Your Personal Statement series. We'll start with an article about Accumulating Content. This article is about capturing ideas and preparing to write. Finding Gold. Earnest Hemingway once said, "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." Like him, most students face the tyranny of the blank page (or screen) when beginning their personal statement.

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Berkeley² Academy

MARCH 11, 2021

With the , increase in college applications during the pandemic, you seniors probably have been eagerly waiting to hear about your Regular Decision admission results. In the next few weeks we will talk about your different options once you have heard back from colleges about Regular Decision. Hopefully good news is on the way! In the meantime, we’ve compiled a list of prominent colleges that our students usually apply to and provided their Regular Decision notification dates.

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ACM College Consulting

MARCH 3, 2021

Many campuses are now allowing tours again, but they are limited and traveling is still discouraged. Most of my students who have gone on tours recently have been disappointed with the lack of what they are able to see and do at this time. Beyond that, it is hard to get a feel for the campus culture when many students are not there or are not socializing as they normally would.

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Excelsior Admissions Consulting

MARCH 15, 2021

Spring is the homestretch of the college admissions process. Decisions are coming out and most students will hear from all of the colleges they applied to by the beginning to middle of April. Here are some strategies for managing admissions decisions. 1. Students should decide how they want to hear their admissions decisions. Because seniors are about to embark on their college experience, it is important that they have agency in how they find out the results of their applications.

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Great College Advice

MARCH 1, 2021

College fairs are in full swing around the country. To make sure you have the best strategy for the college fairs you might want to follow these five tips. 1. Research which schools will be attend the college fair. For most college fairs you can find a list of schools that will be attending. It is worth getting a copy of this list. Then going through it to see if there are any colleges that you are considering on the list.

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Princeton College Consulting

MARCH 8, 2021

"What gets measured, get managed" - Peter Drucker. Because colleges use GPA's (in context) to sort through applications, many students are painfully aware of their grade average down to a hundredth of a point. Here's a secret though: colleges care very little about hundredths of a point. Measurements are only valuable at the appropriate level of perspective.

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Simply Admissions

MARCH 10, 2021

In March 2016, I took a huge leap of faith and nervously started Simply Admissions. I am extremely thankful to still be doing what I love five years later; making the college admissions process less stressful. Throughout this time, I have learned a tremendous amount about both the college admissions industry and working with families. Here are my five biggest takeaways after five years: 1.

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University Gurus

MARCH 5, 2021

Harvard admissions doesn’t appreciate applicants who are too techie or give off an arrogant vibe. It divides its applicant pool into “regular” and “special” groups. It actively scouts athletes, under-resourced students, and students from less-populated areas long before most teens think about their college list. It also admits legacy students at five times the rate of non-legacy students.

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