The Know-It-Alls in Admissions

During free consultations in which prospective clients have the opportunity to ask us questions about Ivy Coach’s services, we occasionally encounter know-it-alls. You know. Parents who already have a complete understanding of the elite college admissions process and don’t hesitate to tell us. In fact, they typically start off the … 

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Those Crazy Parents Navigating Admissions

Ivy Coach’s free consultation is designed to answer questions about our service offerings. So you’d think people would just ask questions about our services. But, of course, people are people and people from time to time say the strangest things on these calls. So, today, we figured we’d share with … 

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The Subjectivity of Parents in College Admissions

Use a thermometer to check your temperature and you can bet that’s an objective reading. Use a tape measurer to figure out the length of a wall and you can bet that’s an objective reading. Ask a mother if her child’s grades and scores would impress a highly selective college … 

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The Role of Parents in College Admissions

There was a piece recently in “The Atlantic” entitled “The Ethos of the Overinvolved Parent” by Laura McKenna that caught our attention. The piece focuses on how essentially helicopter parenting has become, well, parenting 2017. Whereas in past decades it may have struck people as odd for parents of college … 

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