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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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CONGRATS to Our 2022 Admits!

Elton Lin

We at ILUMIN wanted to give a huge congratulations to our seniors this past year! After all the hard work they put into their academics, extracurriculars, and applications, our students were admitted by so many colleges and universities, and we couldn’t be more proud of all of you!

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5 Questions for Heather Vaughan

Elton Lin

Heather Vaughan is the latest addition to the ILUMIN team. We’re so excited for her to contribute her enthusiasm, her deep expertise in essay editing, and her international, multicultural worldview to the important work that we do. We asked Heather five questions to help you get to know her better.

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Introducing ILUMIN Education's New Educational Consultant: Heather Vaughan!

Elton Lin

Heather is a passionate educator who brings over a decade of teaching, tutoring, and mentoring experience to ILUMIN.

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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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5 Questions for Danny Yoo

Elton Lin

Danny Yoo is our latest addition to the ILUMIN team. With nearly twenty years of combined experience in education and entrepreneurship, he has worked with dedicated students from around the world as a college counselor, essay coach, and mentor.

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Liberal Arts Colleges vs. Research Universities

Elton Lin

For many students, the first decision that they’ll have to make when applying to college is this: do they want to go to a small liberal arts college or a large research university?

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