If you’re interested in politics or a political science major, attending a summer program centered on these topics can help you show colleges just how much you care about politics. A summer program is also a great way to meet new people and push your comfort zone–many of these programs are on-site, so you can even get a feel for what it’s like to live at a college.
Private College Counselor NYC
We love New York and not in the I heart NY tacky shirt way. Ok, maybe a little in the tacky t-shirt way. While our college admissions consultants work remotely, we are from New York. Our founder, many of our counselors, and a ton of our students come from NYC and we are proud of that. You don’t have to be in New York to use our company, but if you are looking for a college counselor in New York, we have you covered.
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College Consultants Near Me
Most students start their search with a simple four words, “college consultants near me.” Maybe you typed that yourself to get here. Every town in America from Brentwood to New York has a handful of local counselors that will come up when you search this. We however don’t think it’s the best thing to search and it's because of the phrase “near me.” Now you might be wondering, “why shouldn’t I search ‘near me?’”
Best College Consultants for International Students
We love working with international students. We get students every year who want to come to America. Other countries have their own higher education systems so we know when students choose to come to America for college, they are specifically driven and come with their unique reasons to want to go to school in America. However, when it comes to international students many think they need a counselor that lives in the same country as them and we always need to push against that. If you are an international student looking to come to school in America, you should be looking for an American counselor.
Top 10 Least Popular Majors at Cornell
Getting into college can be tough. Getting into one of the nation’s top colleges, like Cornell or the other Ivies, can be near impossible. Students often ask us what they can do to get ahead. After all, they’re vying for a spot against countless other candidates with perfect grades, flawless essays, and extracurriculars that impress. Every little bit helps and we think landing on the right major is a solid strategy for getting ahead if the rest of your application is already perfect.
Junior Year: Preparing for College
College applications are stressful for everyone, but thankfully, with a bit of preparation in your junior year, you can make the process much easier. But the thing that is hard is that there are no ‘hard’ deadlines in Junior year. It is the time to leverage your self-determination and organizational skills to pursue leadership, excel academically, and build relationships.
Top 10 Least Popular Majors at Stanford
Clients are always asking us how they can get ahead in the college admissions process. College is hyper-competitive these days and with many schools going test-optional since the pandemic began, some students feel as though they have fewer opportunities to showcase their talents above neck-and-neck competition.
What to do the Summer Before Junior Year
Your sophomore summer is your time to explore options, investigate your interests, and formulate a strategy for junior year and your college applications. While it may seem early to start thinking about this, we find that it’s helpful to start planning early: you can reduce the stress you’ll feel during junior and senior year if you get ahead now.
How to Categorize Schools Without Standardized Test Scores
Every student has to make a list of schools that they want to apply to. Those lists usually have a mix of reach schools, safety schools, and schools that they are likely to get into. But how do you figure out if a school is a safety, a reach, or in-between? We call this metric academic viability and you can figure out your academic viability by seeing if your scores and grades are in the range of what a school usually accepts. When it comes to top-tier schools, the earlier you know if you are academically viable the better. You already have your grades, but most students won’t know their scores yet, so how do you figure it out without having your scores? It is not as hard as you may think.
What to do Junior Year Summer
Your junior summer is your last summer of high school, but also the first real step towards college. This is the last time you’ll be able to truly affect your college application: what you do in your summer should build on your extracurricular activities so that you can show colleges a true narrative of who you are and what you’re interested in.
Is it Worth it to Visit Safety Schools?
If you are a long-time reader of our blog, you know that we don’t think you need to visit every school on your list. However no many how many times we say, “you don’t need to visit this many schools!” we get students who try to visit 20-some schools anyways. For those students, the only question that comes up around school visits is, “are safeties worth visiting?”
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Should I Tour Every School on my List?
This blog could simply be the word “no,” but that would probably be unhelpful. Most of the students we work with end up compiling a list of around 10 schools to apply to and during that process, many of them think that they need to visit every school they put on that list. We always tell them, it isn’t as necessary or even as helpful as they think it is. We say this for a couple of reasons which are important for students who might be pushing themselves to go on visits to understand.
Top 10 Least Popular Majors at Brown University
We are often advising clients on how to get ahead in a world in which prestigious universities have single-digit acceptance rates. First and foremost, you need to have the basics down if you really want to get into an Ivy League school like Brown. You must have a stellar GPA in the most advanced classes offered at your school. You have to have exceptional extracurriculars. You also need to have really excellent essays. But each year, tons of hyper-qualified students apply to the Ivies. So how is anyone supposed to get ahead? One strategy we suggest is picking the right major.
How Many Colleges Should I Visit?
We get this question all the time: how many schools should I visit? The TL;DR, unfortunately, is there isn’t actually a set number, but it’s probably less than you think. If you held our feet to the fire we would probably say, 5-10, but that isn’t the whole story. Students often think they have to visit every school they are at all interested in before putting it on the final application list, but that really isn’t true and often isn’t even helpful. We try to recontextualize this question. It isn’t “how many schools should I visit?” rather it’s “what schools should I visit?” and “which should I visit first?”
How to Write a Letter of Continued Interest
Getting deferred is no one’s dream, but it’s not the worst-case scenario. Our students are often sad or even embarrassed when they are deferred from their early decision school. We totally get it, your emotions are valid, but we like to try to refocus our students when they start to get in the dumps about getting deferred. Getting deferred doesn’t mean you didn’t get in. We like to think of it as a second chance and with that second chance, there is a new opportunity to put your best foot forward. Our favorite way to do this is with a letter of continued interest.
How to Write a College Essay for Transfer Students
If you are thinking about transferring, you know that you are going to have to write some essays. Great transfer essays are kind of like ven diagrams: they show the overlap between you and the school. Pretty much every essay you write in the transfer process should lead the reader to think, ‘Wow, they are perfect for this place!’ It helps that a lot of the essay questions feel like excuses to write love notes to the school: why do you want to go here? What do you want to study? What do you want from an education? Etc. We see these types of questions pop up every year. While questions can vary from college to college, there are some tricks that can be applied broadly to writing a great transfer essay.
Top 10 Least Popular Majors at Columbia University
When it comes to college admissions, everyone wants a new angle. But we’ve found one truth in the admissions process: there’s no substitute for good grades. We work with our students to stand out from the stacks of applications through unique and thoughtful essays and resumes that impress, but ultimately, if you’re trying to get into an Ivy League school like Columbia, you must have the GPA to cut it. That said, if you’re a top-caliber high schooler itching to get ahead of the competition, there are a few other tricks you can keep in mind. Honing in on the right college major is one of them.
Help with Transferring Colleges
Every year we work with students who are trying to transfer. Every year we get many of these students into top schools, and every year we get the question, “how do you do that?” The long answer is, it’s not just one thing. There is a lot that needs to go into transferring. You need grades and scores and all of that, but when it comes to your essays, they have to be stellar. Writing transfer essays can be tricky, but we do have some processes we think everyone who is trying to transfer should do with or without our help. Again we do this every year, trust us, if you want to transfer there are two things you need to do before you even start writing.