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Plagiarized College Essays

March 2, 2011

What do Vice President Joe Biden, poet T. S. Eliot, and historian Stephen Ambrose all have in common? They have all at some point been accused of plagiarism. While Eliot’s plagiarism would be discovered posthumously, both Biden and Ambrose would live to regret their lapses in judgment. The consequences of …

Categories: College Essays

Tags: College Admissions Essays, College Essays, Copied College Essays, Plagiarized College Essays, Plagiarizing College Essays

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The Ivy League Influence on Career

March 1, 2011

There’s an article up on CNBC today that tackles the issue of whether or not an Ivy League education is worth the cost of admission. Is the degree worth as much as we think it is? The consensus is…it is, but not for the reasons you may think. One of …

Categories: Admissions Process

Tags: Ivy League, Ivy League and Career, Ivy League and Jobs, Ivy League Career Influences, The Ivy League Influence on Career

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The Grand Prize of Caltech Admissions

February 28, 2011

Admissions officers at the California Institute of Technology celebrated last year when they landed a major recruit. This student was not the 7’0, 260 lb. inside post presence that could help transform their basketball team from the most notorious loser — they had not won a single conference game in …

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Tags: Caltech, Caltech Admissions, Caltech Admissions Prize, Intel Science Talent Search, The Grand Prize of Caltech Admissions

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The Harvard and Princeton Admission Spin

February 27, 2011

Harvard and Princeton’s announcement this past Thursday that they will be re-instituting Single Choice Early Action programs for the Class of 2016 after they announced the elimination of similar programs in 2006 came as no surprise in the world of highly selective college admissions. And neither did their PR spin. …

Categories: Early Decision / Early Action

Tags: Early Action, Early Admissions Programs, Harvard Admissions, Princeton Admissions, Single Choice Early Action

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What Goes Around Comes Around

November 16, 2010

In the fall of 2007, the University of Virginia and Princeton University dropped their binding Early Decision plans and Harvard University eliminated Early Action. Now three years later, the University of Virginia will be implementing an Early Action plan for its applicants next fall and hopes to receive between 12,000 …

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The Common Application’s Discipline Question

November 8, 2010

Thinking about checking “yes” to the discipline question on The Common Application? In our September 2008 newsletter, Discipline Questions on the College Application, we suggested that before students checked the “yes” box on The Common Application where it asked: “Have you ever been adjudicated guilty or convicted of a misdemeanor, …

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Truncated Essays

October 15, 2010

Attention Seniors: Before clicking submit on your applications, make sure that you don’t go over the character or word count when you insert an essay or a short answer into a box on the Common Application, a university’s supplement, or on any other online application for that matter. If you …

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What’s Your Rush?

September 2, 2010

It’s early in September — well before college application deadlines — and George Washington University has already received over 3,000 undergraduate applications. While we were surprised about this information when The GW Hatchet reporter, Becky Reeves, first contacted us about this story, it was only later that we found out …

Categories: The Application

Tags: Admissions Deadlines, Applying Early to College, College Admissions Deadlines, George Washington University, Undergraduate Applications

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There is Life After Being Rejected

July 2, 2010

For the Class of 2014, Harvard University received 30,489 applications and accepted 2,110 students. If you’re one of those 28,379 students who applied and were rejected, you may find some comfort in knowing that Harvard does indeed make mistakes from time to time. Take U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA), for …

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Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and Rankings

June 15, 2010

The magazines that rank our best colleges, graduate schools, boarding schools, hospitals, health plans, doctors, nursing homes, and high schools do so because they’re in the business of selling magazines. And, of course, we buy into this craze. Rankings have an important place in our American culture. Yet once you …

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Tags: AP Tests, College Admissions Criteria, College Rankings, High School Rankings, Ranking of High Schools

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