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5 Powerful Lessons I’ve Learned From Building a Third-Generation Family Business
My family’s business, Ivy Coach, now includes personnel from a third generation. It began three-and-a-half decades ago when my mom, then a high school counselor, recognized that families navigating America’s highly selective college admissions process needed guidance that schools simply didn’t have the capacity to provide. She saw a need before there was an industry.
Princeton University Supplemental Essay Prompts: 2026-2027
Princeton University has released its 2026-2027 admissions essays. Some might add alas since, like last year, Princeton was a little slower to the party than its peers in publishing this year’s admissions essay prompts. Nonetheless, they’re now out, so applicants to Princeton’s Class of 2031 can get started with their responses. So what are this year’s Princeton supplemental essays? Spoiler Alert: they’re the same as last year’s (and the year before that, and the year before that!). Let’s dive in! 2026-2027 Princeton University Essay Topics & Questions Princeton applicants must first decide if they’re applying for an A.B. degree/undecided (an A.B. degree is a Princeton fancy term for a B.A.) or if they’re applying for a B.S.E. degree (a Bachelor…
AI is reshaping college admissions as students navigate varying policies
“In elite college admissions, there’s no courtroom standard of ‘innocent until proven guilty.’ Students will not get the benefit of the doubt,” Weingarten wrote.
University of Texas at Austin Supplemental Essay Prompts: 2026-2027
The University of Texas at Austin has released supplemental essay prompts for the 2026-2027 admissions year. UT Austin, the home of the Longhorns, has become an increasingly popular destination for academically ambitious students around the world. With an acceptance rate that continues to dwindle each year, UT Austin is the pride and joy of the University of Texas system. To earn admission to this R1 private research university, students applying to the Class of 2031 must respond to three 250-300-word essay questions. 2026-2027 University of Texas Essay Topics and Questions 1. Why are you interested in the major you indicated as your first-choice major? (Required) This prompt is a relatively straightforward “Why This Major?” essay in which you should use…
Bowdoin College Supplemental Essay Prompts: 2025-2026
Bowdoin College has released its essays for the 2026-2027 admissions cycle. In addition to The Common Application’s Personal Statement, applicants to Bowdoin’s Class of 2031 have the option to write two supplemental essays of up to 250 words. Applicants are also offered the chance to submit a video. Of course, nothing deemed optional in elite college admissions should ever be interpreted as optional. So, what are this year’s essay prompts? 2026-2027 Bowdoin Essay Topics and Video Optional Essay 1 Prompt The first essay prompt, which is optional for all Bowdoin applicants to the Class of 2031, reads as follows: Generations of students have found connection and meaning in Bowdoin’s “The Offer of the College,” written in 1906 by Bowdoin President…
Johns Hopkins University Supplemental Essay Prompts: 2026-2027
Johns Hopkins University has released its supplemental essay prompt for the 2026-2027 college admissions cycle. Johns Hopkins, which in recent years has asked applicants to answer only one supplemental essay, is again requiring applicants to answer only one essay prompt, a 350-worder. But it’s not the length of Johns Hopkins’ essay prompt for applicants to the JHU Class of 2031 that’s interesting. Instead, it’s the topic. Unlike last year, when Johns Hopkins took the experimental route with its then-entirely new prompt, “Tell us about an important first in your life—big or small—that has shaped you.,” this year they’ve evidently decided to mix things up again. And we’ve got to hand it to Hopkins. Where most schools recycle the same prompts…
Middlebury College Supplemental Essay Prompts: 2026-2027
Has Middlebury College released essay prompts for the 2026-2027 application cycle? No, and they don’t intend to! That’s right, Middlebury does not require supplemental essay prompts for applicants to the Class of 2031. Nothing probing the applicant’s knowledge of Middlebury’s many academic and extracurricular offerings, nothing attempting to get to know the applicant and their personal relationship to Middlebury, nada, zilch, zero. And what do we at Ivy Coach make of this dearth of supplemental material? We’ve never been known to hold our tongue when we feel something is amiss in how an elite college conducts its admissions practices, and we certainly do have some choice words for the Middlebury admissions office. Middlebury College’s Essay Topics for the Class of 2031, Or Lack Thereof! Typically, colleges of Middlebury’s caliber…
Rice University Supplemental Essay Prompts & The Box: 2026-2027
Rice University has released its 2026-2027 supplemental essay prompts for applicants to the Class of 2030. In all, Rice asks applicants to respond to three supplemental essay prompts, two essays of 150 words and one essay of 500 words. For the 500-word essay, there are two options from which applicants are asked to choose one. In addition, as is tradition, Rice applicants are asked to include an image that represents them with their Rice supplement. So, what exactly are this year’s essays for the Rice Class of 2031? 2026-2027 Rice University Essay Topics & The Box 150 Word Essay Prompts Rice applicants are asked to answer the first two essay prompts in a maximum of 150 words. These two prompts…
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