Forget Oxbridge. For today’s gilded youth, Ivy League is the goal — and parents will spend a fortune to get them there
Sian Griffiths & Shanti Das
October 25, 2021
“We’ve long argued that we should eliminate legacy admission,” says Taylor from Ivy Coach. “Why should students who are the children and grandchildren of alumni have a leg up in this process?”
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COVID-19 led some schools to drop letter grades. One suburban student is on a quest to get his back.
Karen Ann Cullotta
May 28, 2021
Brian Taylor, a managing partner at Ivy Coach, which provides college admissions counseling and ACT and SAT tutoring, applauded high schools that assessed students’ progress with traditional letter grades as much as possible throughout the pandemic.
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‘Gray Area’: College Admissions and the Private Counseling Machine
Xavier Blackwell-Lipkind
April 30, 2021
According to Taylor, college admissions offices play a role in the flawed college application process, too.
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A silver lining in the hardest year for college admissions
Aisha Sultan
April 9, 2021
But these aren’t the main reasons why it was the hardest year ever to get in, according to Brian Taylor, managing partner at Ivy Coach.
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Recruiting consultants foresee no major changes to Ivy recruiting despite canceled competition
Drew Beckman
March 7, 2021
Ivy Coach’s Taylor, who works with both athletes and non-athletes in the college admissions process, cited pandemic-induced cuts to varsity teams — as opposed to the cancellation of seasons — as the major concern weighing on recruits.
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How the pandemic has affected college admissions
WGN America's NewsNation
February 27, 2021
Ivy Coach's Brian Taylor speaks to NewsNation's Aaron Nolan about how the pandemic has impacted the highly selective college admissions process.
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College Board Eliminates SAT Subject Tests and Essay
Vivi E. Lu and Dekyi T. Tsotsong
January 25, 2021
Brian Taylor, managing director of private college consulting service Ivy Coach, said College Board’s decision was "entirely predictable."
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Unacceptable Changes to the Common Application for College Applicants
Bev Taylor
January, 22 2013
Beginning this fall, the Common Application is imposing a strict 500-word limit on the personal statement. While our students have always complied with college essay word limits, many applicants ignore directions and upload longer essays. We at Ivy Coach have no issue with word limits, but we do have an issue with what the Common Application is proposing to do to enforce it.
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How To Avoid Having Your College Acceptance Rescinded
January 20, 2015
“If you’re an A student, a D or an F could certainly do it,” says Bev Taylor, founder of Ivy Coach, a college admissions counseling practice. “If you got some Cs, the college would probably just ask you to explain your grades and see if you had a valid reason for their drop.”
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Ivy League Activities
Bev Taylor
January 08, 2013
As much as some parents and college applicants like to think otherwise, Ivy League schools are not after "well-rounded" applicants. In highly selective college admissions, the three-sport jock is an anachronism of decades past.
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