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Is the Process Not Stressful Enough?

May 16, 2007

Now a kid who is applying to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton is also applying to the Lehighs and Lafayettes, said Brett Levine, director of guidance at Madison High School in New Jersey. It’s the same tier, basically. Lehigh and Lafayette in the same tier as Harvard, Yale, or Princeton? No, Brett, …

Categories: Admissions Process, Other Tidbits

Tags: Admissions Decisions, College Admissions, College Admissions Process, College Applicants, Harvard

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MIT Dean of Admissions Resigns

April 26, 2007

Today when it was discovered that Marilee Jones, the Dean of Admissions at MIT, lied about her credentials 28 years ago it sent a shockwave through the college admissions community. According to her own statement on MIT’s website, Marilee apologizes: “I have resigned as MIT’s Dean of Admissions because very …

Categories: Admissions Process, Did You Know?, Other Tidbits

Tags: College Admissions, College Admissions Counselor, College Application, MIT Admissions Dean, MIT Dean

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College Admissions Police

April 14, 2007

In a recent “Wall Street Journal” article, “Admissions Police Bolster Efforts to Uncover Fraud,” Jon Weinbach discusses what can be a new trend in college admissions, the College Admissions Police. “Before mailing out acceptance and rejection letters over the past week, thousands of colleges and graduate schools conducted their usual …

Categories: Admissions Process, College Decisions, Did You Know?, Other Tidbits, The Application

Tags: College Admissions, College Admissions Police, College Admissions Policing, College Application, Trend in College Admissions

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Extracurricular Activities

March 14, 2007

While colleges look for the student’s depth as well as breadth of involvement, extracurricular activities should be great fun but they should also be activities about which the student is passionate. When listing extracurricular involvements on a chart of the college application, there is room for the description of the …

Categories: College Essays, Extracurricular Activities, High School Summer Plans

Tags: Activity Sheet, Applicant Activities, Applicant Extracurricular Activities, College Application, Extracurricular Activities

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Princeton and Early Decision

March 1, 2007

More about Early Decision… There’s an interesting article posted February 8, 2007 on News@Princeton by Cass Cliatt: “Princeton sets third consecutive applications record.” In Princeton University’s last Early Decision class, (at least for right now), another new record has been set. Applications are up from last year 2 percent in …

Categories: Admissions Process, Early Decision / Early Action

Tags: Applying to College, College Decisions, Early Action, Early Decision, Princeton and Early Decision

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Electronic Searches vs. The College Counselor

Dear Ivy Coach, I am writing an article for “The New York Times” on the growing number of companies that offer search engines to help high school students come up with a list of potential colleges. Many are set up as kind of electronic guidance counselors. Princeton Review, for instance, …

Categories: Deciding on a College to Attend, Other Tidbits

Tags: College Decision, College Decisions, College Search, College Search Process, Deciding on College

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Will Colleges be Dropping Early Admissions Policies?

February 11, 2007

When colleges such as Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Virginia announced that they will be dropping their Early admissions programs, high school students, parents, and college counselors began to wonder if this was the beginning of a new trend in admissions and that perhaps more colleges were going to …

Categories: Admissions Process, Early Decision / Early Action

Tags: Admissions Decisions, College Admission, Early Action, Early Admissions Policies, Early Decision, Early Policies

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ACTs in Lieu of Subject Tests

February 3, 2007

We received the following e-mail today from a high school guidance counselor: Dear Ivy Coach, Am I misinforming our families when I indicate that almost universally the ACT plus Writing is accepted in lieu of the SAT Reasoning and Subject Tests? I have an inquiry from a parent and it …

Categories: Admissions Process, SAT / ACT Prep, Standardized Testing

Tags: ACT, ACT Plus Writing, SAT, SAT Subject Tests, Subject Tests

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What is Considered a Talent?

January 20, 2007

Dear Ivy Coach, I’m a junior from Tennessee and would love to attend Vanderbilt University. I know it’s a really competitive school, but I have the grades and the scores, and I’ll have the recs. The only thing I don’t know about is the recs. I read your “Peterson’s” article …

Categories: Admissions Process, Talented Students

Tags: College Applicants, Talented Applicants, Talented College Applicants, Talented Ivy League Applicants, Talented Students

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How Applications are Evaluated and Decisions are Made

August 13, 2004

Of the 1,800 accredited colleges and universities in the U.S., only about thirty-five are considered highly selective. This highly selective category is reserved for schools that typically admit less that one-third of all their applicants. To determine a college’s degree of selectivity, one needs to know the number of students …

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Tags: Evaluating College Applications, Evaluation of College Applications, How Applications Are Evaluated, How Applications are Evaluated and Decisions are Made, How College Apps Are Evaluated

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