Earlier this year, I wrote a post about my daughter’s experience with getting waitlisted by The University of Chicago. You can read it here, The Pros and Cons of Being Waitlisted. I want to circle back to the waitlist topic in light of a recent post on “The New York Read more…
Do you have a high school Junior who is soon to be a Senior? If so, you need to be prepared for your student’s senior year of high school. It will be a rough one! There will be ups, there will be downs, there will probably be lots of nagging Read more…
My daughter, a high school senior, came home recently and said she had a friend who not only hadn’t selected a college yet, but hadn’t even applied. She assumed that his only option left would be to attend a local community college. Not necessarily so. May 1 was National Decision Read more…
Yesterday, my daughter and thousands of other applicants received their Regular Decision results from The University of Chicago. She, along with thousands of others, was waitlisted. It was another record year for UChicago – over 30,000 applicants for approximately 1,500 spots. This was a 20% increase in applications over 2012, Read more…
It’s late January. My daughter has finished all of her applications. We are waiting for a scholarship competition, two overnight campus visits, an admissions interview (one very competitive school lets kids visit after the application deadline up until a cut-off date), possible updates to merit scholarships based on December ACT Read more…
In your college search, wouldn’t it be nice to have a better idea of what a college is looking for from its applicants before you apply? As far as overall industry-wide information, the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) publishes a yearly State of College Admission report. In their 2012 report, Read more…