You’ve probably heard about college students getting internships, but did you know that high school students can too? Internships provide you with exposure to a field of work, and give you access to people who want to help teach you. Jobs do both of these things too, obviously, but high schoolers typically can’t access a job where they will spend significant amounts of time, learning from and shadowing alongside experienced people in a field you may be interested in studying in college or pursuing professionally. This is what internships can provide, and this is why we encourage them.
UC Schools Legacy Strategy
Maybe your legacy student is dreaming of going to Haas, a UCLA cluster, or even Film School at Santa Cruz. You might be wondering, “will my alumni status help them get into a UC?” It's a question we hear from parents all the time, especially when it comes to UC Berkeley and Los Angeles. So we wanted to break down what legacy means (and doesn’t mean) when applying to top UC schools.
College Athletic Recruiting for Williams
Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Willliamstown, Massachusetts. It’s small, with just over 2,000 undergrads, and it’s in the beautiful – but rural – Berkshires. While technically a college, Williams also has tiny little grad programs for development economics and art history. Williams is also a member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), and competes in D3 sports with Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Tufts, Trinity, and Wesleyan. Approximately 35% of the school competes on a varsity or club team and interestingly enough, they also compete D1 in skiing and squash!
The Best Extracurriculars for English Majors
If you’re thinking of becoming a teacher, writer, journalist, academic, or researcher, or even just love reading, you may be considering majoring in English in college. Since you’ve been taking English classes since practically your first day of school, you may be thinking you don’t have to do much to make yourself look like a strong applicant. Get good grades, take additional classes, and read an extra book or two — right? Well, we wish it was that simple. The ubiquity of English courses is actually what makes standing out as a prospective English major quite difficult. Everyone is studying nearly the same topics and reading nearly the same books, so it’s hard to colleges to differentiate you from anyone else unless you do something to stand out beyond the confines of your in-school curriculum.
Most Popular Majors at Columbia
Applying to Ivy League schools these days is no joke. And Columbia is right up there with the absolute best of them. A city campus in the heart of NYC, Columbia is a fantastic school for those interested in outstanding academics in one of the cultural epicenters of the world. But if you want to get into Columbia, you’re going to have to have an ironclad strategy. We help our students gear themselves towards specific programs within the nation’s top universities. Here are the most popular majors at Columbia:
College Athletic Recruiting for Amherst
Putting the small in small liberal arts school, Amherst College is located in, you guessed it, Amherst, Massachusetts. With an undergrad population of less than 2k and a totally open curriculum, Amherst attracts students who want to dive deep into their academic subject of choice. They’re also a very athletic school – and they claim to have the oldest athletics department in the country since they’ve been requiring physical education since 1860. They also played the first college baseball game ever against Williams. Currently, they are part of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), and compete in D3 sports with Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Tufts, Trinity, Wesleyan, and Williams. About 35-40% of the student body competes in a varsity sport.
The Best Extracurriculars for Anthropology Majors
Anthropology is the study of cultures and customs in context, and anthropologists have helped us gain a deeper understanding of ourselves, those around us, and those who came way before us. Archaeology is, after all, a subset of anthropology! So, whether you are curious about ancient cultures or one not too far from you, a major in anthropology may be a great fit. Before you press submit on your application, though, there are some things you should do to make yourself stand out.
College Athletic Recruiting for Bates
Bates College is a small, private liberal arts college located in Lewiston, Maine. They’re known for killer academics and an incredibly beautiful campus, but they’re also known for their incredibly strong athletic teams. Bates is a member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), and competes against Amherst, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Tufts, Trinity, Wesleyan, and Williams in NCAA D3 sports. Their teams are some of the best in not only the NESCAC, but among all NCAA D3 teams. They’re producing olympians!!! So, if you’re looking for a liberal arts education and have athletic talent, you might think that your sport could help you get into Bates. Maybe! Keep reading.
Most Popular Majors at Harvard
We often tell our students that applying for a specific program or major is critical. That may seem crazy for a high school student who has no idea what they want to do with their life to start considering. But the truth is, college is SO incredibly competitive these days and the Ivy League is just out of control. In order to have a competitive advantage, our students cultivate a highly-specific academic niche throughout high school and leverage that to apply to majors and programs that are a natural extension of what they’ve already been doing in high school.
MIT Extracurricular Activities for High School Students
We often hear “My kid has a 4.0, can they get into MIT?” It’s not an easy question to answer, mostly because it’s not the right question to ask. Yes, having perfect grades is the absolute floor if you want to get into MIT, but it’s far from the only thing you need. So when we hear this question, we usually have to respond with a question, “What do their extracurriculars look like?”
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The Best Extracurriculars for History Majors
History is one of the most popular humanities majors at American colleges and universities, and many colleges have subcategories under the ‘history’ umbrella focused on specific regions, cultures, countries, or communities. If you’re thinking about studying history in college, it’s important to go into the application knowing that it can be tough to stand out as a prospective student even if you have exceptional grades. Because there aren’t a ton of extracurriculars specific to potential history majors, and more high schools don’t offer a wide array of options for history electives, making a splash with your application takes some strategy.
The Best Colleges for your Astrological Sign: Libra
English Major Strategy: How to Stand Out
Fun Fact: English is one of the most popular humanities majors for students to list when applying to college. It has also been the default major for students who don’t know what they want to study, aren’t STEM-y, and don’t want to click “undecided” (which, by the way, is something you should never do). So, there are a lot of people selecting it and, if you truly do want to study English, it is important that you make yourself stand out from the pack. Here are some things that you can do before writing your application and in your application itself to ensure your application makes a serious impact.
Do Ivy League Schools like Scouts Progams?
Scout programs like Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, and lots of smaller scouting programs, teach leadership, teamwork, and independence. We’d also include rural programs like 4H in this group, that similarly emphasize learning amongst peers while discovering what is special about oneself. Many students start these programs young — really young — with kids beginning in early elementary school as part of cub scout and brownie programs.
College Counselor for Ivy League
This year, Columbia admitted 3.9% of students who applied. Yale accepted 4.35% of students, Brown accepted 5%, and Dartmouth just 6%. Getting into the Ivy League used to be pretty straightforward—if you had the grades, the test scores, and a solid leadership position in a club or sports team, you were in the game. Now, students need to really stand out to have a shot.
The Best Places for High School Students to Publish Short Stories
At The Koppelman Group, we love working with student writers. After grades and activities, college applications are really just one enormous writing project, after all. While our number one goal is to help kids get into their dream colleges, we also want our students to become better writers, storytellers, and, essentially, communicators, outside of their college applications.
History Major Strategy: How to Stand Out
History is one of the most popular majors at colleges and universities across the United States. Students love to study history, and we get it — we love history too — but it’s also one of the most commonly listed “intended” majors listed on applications. This poses a bit of a problem because when colleges consider your application, they are looking at you within the context of what you want to study. Each department can handle only so many students, so they have to think about what you want to major in when they consider you. Colleges are flooded with prospective history majors and have to find the best of the best to let in.
How to Write a College Essay about Yourself
If you’re applying to college, you are in the midst of an experience that is all about you. It is you applying to college, after all. These are your grades. Your activities. Your test scores. And your essay. And it is all about you. Which takes us to the title of this post: How to write a college essay about yourself.
The Best Extracurriculars for Economics Majors
Economics is a social science that brings together political science, statistics, sociology, mathematics, engineering, psychology, history, and more — basically everything — within the overarching umbrella of money markets and value creation (or destruction, depending on the circumstance). While it is a social science, economics has some major quantitative components that mean it’s nearly as much a STEM field as a humanities field.