Your College Choice Matters

Just about every year, someone pens a column focusing on how attending an elite university is highly overrated and how the vast majority of America’s most successful people did not attend elite universities at all. They’ll always be able to find data that supports their argument — just as one … 

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We Push College Choices Both Up and Down

Some folks — who are expressly not our clients — like to suggest that our students at Ivy Coach so often earn admission to their dream colleges because we push down their college choices. If their dream is Dartmouth College, as an example, it seems these folks are asserting that … 

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Where You Go To College

Frank Bruni, an op-ed columnist for “The New York Times,” authored a book a couple of years back entitled “Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania.” Yesterday, he discussed that book and its premise on “MetroFocus” so we figured we’d share our … 

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