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Who should read this: anybody applying to college in 2019-2020. Post Subjects: The Common Application versus the Coalition Application, A Comparison of Common Application and Coalition Application Essays and for financially challenged families, The Questbridge Application. The Coalition and the Common Application are the most important college application portals. The Common Application is the Big…
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Who should read this post: Anybody applying to a college in the Common Application portal next year. Here is a searchable list of members: Common App 2017-2018. I note with interest that the new members this year include some good international options, some regional big names and some universities that should be better known–like the…
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Oh, and what not to do. For starters, don’t try to imitate too closely (and definitely do not copy) your older sibling/friend/acquaintance/college essay guidebook’s foolproof example essay. Have a look at them, sure, but for true inspiration, we’ll go to the pros. More on that in a moment. Because, before I get to essay examples, I want…
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In my last post, I took a look at trends in admissions–finding, most notably, that admission rates at the most competitive schools are continuing to trend downward in the single digits. This post will give three year results for all of the Ivy League universities, below, as well as results on other universities that were…
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The Common App folks are set to release Version 4.0 for the 2013-2014 application year. They have promised to make things more user friendly, and they have changed the essay prompts. Most important, from my point of view, is the increase in essay length–you have up to 650 words; you need to write at least…
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College Search and Evaluation Software and Websites Most of the people I help with college applications can be categorized in two ways: those who are fixated on a list of big-name universities which are the ONLY places they can possibly consider applying to, and those who are overwhelmed by the information available and so feel…
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College App Jungle’s Rules of College Admissions: 1. There are no secrets to admissions though each university does have priorities which shape admissions. Beyond looking at the information colleges provide about how they evaluate applications, spending time trying to figure out if there is a “secret handshake” which will give you admittance is a waste of…
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This post builds on the last two posts and offers a list of themes by which you can classify and discuss books. This includes a detailed discussion of books and particularly of some quality trilogies and series that have been popular in recent years. The post includes suggestions for mixing it up by developing a…
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