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Parent Financial Aid Timeline: Get Ahead Before FAFSA Opens

Get a head start on college financial aid. This timeline for parents will help you prepare for FAFSA and maximize your student’s returns.

Before You Submit: 7 Last-Minute Essay Mistakes to Catch

Catch last-minute essay mistakes to strengthen your college application. In this article, we’ll show you how to fix 7 sneaky errors before you submit.

Top Mistakes to Avoid in Your College Applications

Don't let common missteps derail your college dreams. This article reveals the top mistakes to avoid when applying to college.

FAFSA vs. CSS Profile: What’s the Difference?

Confused by college financial aid? Learn the key differences between FAFSA and CSS Profile to maximize your grants, scholarships, and loans.

What Should I Write for Optional Essays?

Picture this: college app deadlines are looming and you're hard at work on your applications. You've compiled and narrowed down a college list, made a strategy for presenting your extracurriculars, and started brainstorming and drafting your essays. Good for you! On top of all this work, you notice that a few of your applications allow for that perplexing, dark horse component: the optional essay.Â

Free College? It’s More Likely Than You Might Think

For most students, college is expensive.Â Each year, the costs of attending rise, and show no signs of slowing. Between tuition, textbooks, lab materials, and room and board—”the path to a diploma exacts a large price. Yet degrees remain highly in demand. Families are asking: how can we afford it?Â

Your Survival Guide to Self-Started Activities

If you do decide to strike out on your own with self-started activities, we have some advice to help you on your way.Â

Essay Scoop: How to Answer CalTech Essays

Want to know how to crack the CalTech essays and present your best self to the admissions committee? In this post, we'll go through each prompt.

Debrief: Official WSJ 2020 College Rankings Published

The Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education recently published their joint 2020 list of Top US Colleges. Curious who made the cut? Want to know what all this data means? The WSJ puts their article behind a subscription paywall for now, but if you want to read the full list you can find the same rankings published on the Times website. We'll explain what to do with it.

When Safety Schools Aren’t Safety Schools

As the field becomes more competitive across the board, at what point can we no longer consider mainstay safety schools as near-guaranteed acceptances?

How to Get a College Acceptance Fast

Plenty of students may be relieved to know: if you're looking to end the wait and get a college acceptance fast, consider this alternative!

Do You Know Your Learning Style?

Everyone learns in different ways. If you know your learning style, you can adapt your studying methods and start to ace your classes with ease. Sounds pretty good, right? So what are learning styles, again?Â

Ask Me Anything: How I Cracked BS/MD Admissions

Earning a spot in a medical school while in high school? Learn from our counselor Rohith K. what his experience with BS/MD admissions was like. Learn from our counselor Rohith K. what his experience was like.

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