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College Fit

Does your child want a liberal arts college and a broad education or a pre-professional school to get an upper ...

Admission Guidance

Few high schools provide in-depth and individualized attention to preparing students for college. At exactly the point when students are ...

Unique is Powerful

When your child shows evidence of some sort of specialty, within any community, outside the grounds of her high school, ...

Advantage Positioning

Our program of Advantage Positioning through the WIN™ model can guide your child through the steps of an easy, yet ...

How Purpose Propels Admission

Your child holds within her the very talents and abilities that are most desirable to today’s colleges. She will simply ...

Specialty leads to admission

I would estimate that roughly 95% of the general population is continuing to submit applications using strategies that are based ...

An example of one of our student’s essays

My favorite academic subject is philosophy, which reflects my attachment to pure, abstract ideas — the idea of ideas. Perhaps ...

Top 10 College Admissions Tips

According to U.S. Census figures released by the Pew Research Center last week, more kids than ever are clamoring to ...

How to Get Into Harvard and the Ivy League, by a Harvard Alum

Getting into elite schools like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and others is a goal of many high school students. How ...

10 College Admissions Secrets: An Inside Look From an Elite College Counselor

With high school seniors in the thick of the college application process, speculation abounds about how college admissions committees make ...

Yale Application Reader Reveals 4 Proven Tips For Ivy League Admission

There are no guarantees in the college admissions game, especially at name-brand institutions like those in the Ivy League. Not ...

College Admission

Applying to college does not begin or end with the college application. Searching and choosing the best college for you ...

Should Your Child Apply Early Decision For College Admission: Answers From Prep School Pros

Early Decision should be reserved for students who are 100% certain they have discovered a school they want to attend. ...

Edtech’s Next Big Disruption Is The College Degree

TechCrunch.com For centuries, the college degree has been the global gold standard for assessing an individual entering the workforce. But ...
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More college students are working while studying

CNBC Working through college won't cover all of a student's education expenses. It can lighten the debt burden, though, and ...