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Today we’re talking about the personal statement, but you might also be looking at the UC questions, since that's a place where we like to point students to start off first. But today we'll give you a crash course about the personal statement, how you're gonna pick your prompt. You're gonna work out of seven.
Read MoreWe had the privilege of sitting down recently with AJ Howell-Williams, the Senior Associate Director of Undergraduate Admissions at Santa Clara University, to talk about current admissions trends, test-optional, and the other unique challenges and trends within higher education in the year ahead.
Read MoreThis webinar was presented on June 10, 2021, and a recording is available here. Some details regarding the prompts and deadlines may have changed by the time you are reading this transcript. Please visit the Common Application and University of California website for the most up to date information.
Read MoreIt’s been over a year since the University of California veered towards eliminating all test requirements by 2025. Colleges across the nation, and most notably the Ivy League, declared that college applications would be test-optional this year. Some colleges have maintained that their test-optional policies are temporary, while others, such as Scripps, have declared their applications test-optional permanently. They
Read MoreWe had the privilege of sitting down recently with Elise Fisher, Senior Assistant Director of Admissions at Boston University, to talk about current admissions trends and the unique challenges and trends within higher education in the year ahead.
Read MoreWe had the privilege of sitting down recently with Giles Eady, the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Admissions at Emory University, to talk about current admissions trends and the unique challenges and trends within higher education in the year ahead.
Read MoreED, EA, REA, ED2—as you’ve been navigating the college application process, you’ve probably seen these acronyms pop up over and over again. They seem pretty fancy: each of these application plans have their own rules, deadlines, and advantages, and some colleges offer some of them but not the others.
Read MoreBy now, you've probably picked up all kinds of extracurriculars over the course of your high school career: varsity sports, robotics club, maybe even volunteering at your local beekeeping farm. Now it's time to put those extracurriculars on your Common App, where there's a section devoted solely for college applicants to list them!
Read MoreWe'll be chatting more about majors today. Last webinar, earlier this week, we did a talk about summer programs: what you should be thinking about? We systematically went through the different options. We'll be going through that with majors through – that similar process of going through the different options: what students are looking at, and best practices, or what students should be looking at doing and achieving, and programs – things like that.
Read MoreGood letters of recommendation can give colleges insight into the applicant from the teachers’ point of view, revealing personal or academic qualities about the student that grades don’t cover. These letters provide nuance and additional context to reinforce what’s already in the application and vouch for an applicant’s character both as a student and as a human being.
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