
The Road to College Admissions
Lost for where to start your journey to attending college? Wondering if you’re way behind your peers? Confused about what step comes next?
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Lost for where to start your journey to attending college? Wondering if you’re way behind your peers? Confused about what step comes next?
Hear from a former college admission officer at UChicago and Stanford and learn what they look for in applicants.
It’s fall semester and all of a sudden, everyone around you is talking about college application deadlines… and you hear a lot of conflicting answers. It’s totally okay to be confused! Don’t let that confusion stop you from asking questions.
Guess what? Sometimes, even stellar candidates get rejected, for a whole variety of reasons. We’re serving up some perspective to untangle your sense of self-worth from your college admissions letters and college rejection letters. Check out this whole growth mindset business.
Want to get accepted to college quickly? We have an option for you! With so many admissions deadlines coming up and pressure ramping up too, plenty of students may be relieved to know there’s an underrated alternative. Consider applying to a school with rolling admissions.
Fall deadlines are fast approaching. You may have noticed that certain colleges offer early action for their acceptance processes. Submit your application early, and you’ll get the result early, too. So, should you apply early action?
The college admission code isn’t a code that can be cracked easily. There are no hard and fast rules that apply for all colleges and the selection criteria aren’t entirely objective. But data can provide us with some clues into admission chances.
We all know what it feels like to leave things to the last minute right before an important deadline. Most regular decision deadlines for college admissions fall in January and we want to share them with you so you get you college applications in on time. The table below includes application deadlines for the most popular colleges.
The developments in education in recent years have been phenomenal. Classrooms have gone from lecture halls to spaces that engage all types of learners. Thanks to Neil Fleming’s VARK model of Student Learning, we have now understood that students learn in different ways, so why isn’t their knowledge being assessed in different ways as well.
Your senior year has finally arrived! Senior year is exciting and filled with lots of activities, but it is definitely not the time to slack off. It is time to get serious about college applications.