Penn Admissions

Did you recently receive a cryptic but super exciting video from the University of Pennsylvania? On March 4th, students who applied to the University of Pennsylvania and stood out as especially exceptional in the pack of applicants received an email communication from none other than the University of Pennsylvania’s Dean … 

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College Interviews

The college interview is an opportunity for the university to which you are applying to get to know you. Regularly on the pages of our college admissions blog, we discuss the questions that are typically posed, what would be considered positive and negative responses, and how you can maximize your … 

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Harvard Admissions

There is an editorial in today’s edition of The Boston Globe in which the writer argues that the return of Early Action to Harvard makes the admissions process more equitable for all: “The admissions advantage for athletes has been a source of contention at Harvard for decades. A situation in … 

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Applicants to Princeton

A basketball game that took place today at Yale between the Harvard Crimson and the Princeton Tigers may have an impact on next year’s admissions process. Harvard and Princeton had already earned a share of the Ivy League title this season after both posted identical 12-2 records in the conference. … 

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College Social Media Recruitment

There are a number of interesting studies out there on the use of social media by college admissions offices as a means to recruit potential applicants. In one particular study, two researchers at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Nora Ganim Barnes and Eric Mattson, have found that since 2007, there … 

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Grades and College Success

At the risk of stating the obvious, when college admissions officers are reading through the plethora of applications before them, one of the central things they are looking for is whether or not they think the applicant will succeed at their university. It may seem quite obvious but the answer … 

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Brown University Admissions

Considering applying to Brown University in the years to come? At yesterday’s annual “State of Brown” address in which Brown’s administrators delivered a speech about the major issues facing the university, Dean of Admission Jim Miller made an interesting prediction. He, like many admissions officers who analyze demographic trends in … 

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Social Media and College Admissions

Social media is a hot topic in college admissions. The question so many students and parents often pose is: Do college admissions officers check the Facebook pages of their applicants? The short answer is…no. College admissions officers don’t have the time to peruse every applicant’s Facebook page. In a word, … 

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Undergraduate Business Programs

The Bloomberg Businessweek rankings of undergraduate business programs have come out for the year. Securing the top spot is Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. The runner-up is the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce. Meanwhile, Emory University’s Goizueta Business School placed third. The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, … 

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International Student Support

Brown University is making headway to increase the support available to international students who enroll at the university. After all, it’s often difficult for students from other parts of the world to adjust to daily life at an American university and thus Brown is undertaking initiatives to improve the available … 

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