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Webinar Transcript: Timeline for 12th Grade College Admissions

Elton Lin

Good evening, everyone. Really glad that all of you can make it today. We have a really exciting topic for a lot of our juniors right now – to get ready for the admissions process, and start to think about the timeline: what they should be thinking about, researching schools, essays… We'll go through everything today! College tours – I think that's also something on people's minds: thinking about that for spring break, potentially. We'll talk about all of that today.

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Webinar Transcript: How Important is GPA? A Discussion About College Admissions Factors

Elton Lin

Hi everyone – really glad that all of you could make it today. And I'm glad we're continuing  this weekly [webinar series]; we did one last week with Danny. Today we have Dayna joining us – and next week it'll be Kelly. We're doing three in a row for this little chunk of time.

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Webinar Transcript: How to Stand Out as a Pre-Med Applicant

Elton Lin

Thanks for coming tonight, making time for our pre-med Q&A. Let's get started. I can introduce myself, and then we'll have Robert introduce himself, and then we'll start with the questions.

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Webinar Transcript: Live Q&A with Northeastern Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions

Tony Flores

Welcome everyone. Thanks for joining us today. It’s really great to have everyone again. I know it's been a while since we've had a webinar, but we’re really glad that Olivia Harris could join us today from Northeastern University admissions.

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Webinar Transcript: Live Q&A with Pomona College Associate Dean of Admissions

Elton Lin

I know there have got to be a lot of rising seniors coming in and trying to also learn more about Pomona today. I definitely want to get to all your questions – and get you an idea of the campus.

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Webinar Transcript: College Essay Series: All About the UC PIQs

Elton Lin

I really appreciate folks joining us on this Sunday morning. We're covering an important topic for a lot of seniors – and hopefully some curious juniors are here, just to hear a bit about it, maybe get a preview – the UC personal insight questions.

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Webinar Transcript: Live Q&A with Cuca Acosta, UCSB Associate Director of Admissions

Elton Lin

Welcome to everybody who's joining us on our webinar series. Before we get started, go on to the chat, and we always like hearing where people are calling in from. For our webinar series we've had people from like all over the United States, all over the world, all over everywhere!

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Should UC Berkeley Have a Max Enrollment?

Elton Lin

Colleges across the board are getting more and more competitive – especially among the big names. This graph shows just the past ten years:

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What is Yield Protection?

Elton Lin

It’s the beginning of the new year, which means many seniors have just recently turned in their last few applications and are now eagerly awaiting results. But in the back of their minds they might recall hearing odd results from previous years, such as students getting waitlisted or rejected by their safeties. Is that a sign for bad news to come? Or is there something deeper going on?

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Class of 2026 Early Admissions: Results and Trends

Elton Lin

It’s mid-March, which means that across the world, students of the incoming Class of 2026 are waiting to hear back from colleges about their Regular Decision responses.

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