How do you get into Harvard? For the lucky few, there’s the Z list.
Deirdre Fernandes
July 28, 2018
The Z list is a way for Harvard to keep its alumni and donors happy while maintaining its reputation as a highly selective college, said Bev Taylor, the founder of New York-based Ivy Coach.Read MoreCategories:
Is The Cost Of College Getting Cheaper?
Greg Yang
March 30, 2018
At the end of the day, colleges are businesses. If they have to lower tuition costs to attract students and more business, Taylor says, they will.Read MoreCategories:
Experts and students raise concerns over long-term consequences of Penn’s tuition increases
Yoni Gutenmacher
March 12, 2018
Brian Taylor, director of the college counseling practice Ivy Coach, said that the yearly tuition increases are standard practice and normal procedures for any business.Read MoreCategories:
Dartmouth will not penalize applicants for protesting
Alex Fredman
March 6, 2018
Taylor said that this effort falls in line with Dartmouth’s admissions strategy in general. “Students who seek a better world are precisely the kind of students that the College on the Hill seeks in its incoming class,” she said.Read MoreCategories:
Faust Raises Concerns About Higher Ed Act’s Changes to Student Aid
Delano R. Franklin & Kristine E. Guillame
February 7, 2018
Brian Taylor, managing director of Ivy Coach, a college admissions counseling company, said the overhaul of the Higher Education Act would raise costs for low- and middle-income college students and be especially difficult for graduate students.Read MoreCategories:
College receives 22,005 total applications for Class of 2022
Gabriel Onate
February 6, 2018
Bev Taylor said this year’s numbers represent the biggest spike in total applications received since 2015.Read MoreCategories:
College admits 565 students from record-large pool
Eileen Brady
January 4, 2018
“There is no reason for you to wait and compare packages when you have the net price calculator,” said founder of college admissions consulting firm Ivy Coach Bev Taylor.Read MoreCategories:
Debating the efficacy and necessity of the college interview
Larry Mantle
January 3, 2018
Are college interviews necessary? It’s a question that many, if not most, college-bound students ask themselves at one point or another. An in-person interview is often billed as a student’s best chance to make a personal connection with an admissions representative or, more often, an alumni in the student’s area … Read more Read MoreCategories:
Penn admitted 18.5 percent of early decision applicants — a record-breaking low
Sarah Fortinsky
December 13, 2017
Penn admitted 18.5 percent of its early decision applicants for the Class of 2022, a dramatic drop from last year’s 22 percent ED rate and the previous year’s 23.2 percent rate. Penn also received a record-breaking 7,074 early decision applications this year, a 15 percent increase from last year’s 6,147 applicants. Since … Read more Read MoreCategories:
The Price of Admission
Aaron Mak
December 5, 2017
Taylor’s company explicitly advises Asian applicants to work against racial stereotypes as part of a college-prep sector that presumes anti-Asian discrimination in the admissions process to be a fact.Read MoreCategories:
