So much of what you read, watch, or hear in the media is there to make you feel like it's impossible to get into Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale without cheating your way in or using some … [Read More...]
Our Next Quarantine Lesson: We’re Blowing it for This Fall
It isn’t just the seniors who missed this year’s scholastic rites of passage. Students may be the stars of this show, but there’s something about weak lemonade, folding chairs, and speeches about pursuing your passion faculty and administrators find … [Read More...]
The Obscene Quest for Meaningless Status
As students - and parents - obsess about their college lists each summer, it's extremely important to put things in proper perspective. In his 1938 Defense of Freedom and Peace speech, Winston Churchill stated, "I avail myself with relief of the … [Read More...]
How to Finish a College-Specific Application Essay
Far too many students don't have anything worthwhile to say in their conclusions to application essays about why they want to attend a particular college or university. If you are completely out of ideas, it's always a good idea to express … [Read More...]
Don’t start college in 2020
Colleges will try their best to get first-year students enrolled for Fall 2020, but really there are few compelling reasons to start college in 2020. Save yourself the time, money, and aggravation and take (at least) the 2020-2021 school year off … [Read More...]
Accepted to a top college but short on money? What now?
The average annual tuition at America's most selective colleges and universities is over $50,000, and some schools cost $75,000/year or higher when you’ve factored in the cost of living. While attending a top college can open doors, introduce you to … [Read More...]
Pandemic Response Puts Many Colleges in Peril
The Coronavirus Pandemic has dramatically reshaped the college admissions landscape in just a matter of weeks. While many colleges are attempting to present a united front of care and concern for future applicants by going SAT- and ACT-optional for … [Read More...]
Making a Calm College Decision
This is typically the week many high school seniors are a little tense about their college plans. The last few colleges are sending out decisions this week, and they tend to be the colleges where the admit rates are a little less than getting struck … [Read More...]
Georgetown’s 2020 School-Specific Acceptance Rates
Georgetown University has released its school-by-school acceptance rates for students applying during the 2019-2020 admissions cycle for the D.C. university's Class of 2024. Georgetown continues to be one of the most proactively transparent … [Read More...]
MIT to no longer consider SAT Subject Test scores
MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests as part of the admissions process. You can find MIT's full revised testing requirements here. MIT states: "...in fairness to all applicants, we won’t consider them (Subject … [Read More...]
Case Western Goes Test Optional in Response to COVID-19
Never let a crisis go to waste is a maxim someone at Case Western University must deeply believe in, as the university's admissions office announced today that it is now test-optional for students entering in the fall of 2021. Case Western framed … [Read More...]
Boston College Regular Decision Acceptance Rate Now 22%
Boston College will notify Regular Decision applicants of their admissions decisions via email on Thursday evening, March 19, 2020. Admitted students in the United States will be mailed acceptance packets in the days that follow. Admitted students … [Read More...]
How to Approach 2020-2021 Common App Essay Prompts
How do you tackle the main essay on the Common Application to give yourself the best shot of writing an essay that is acceptance worthy at even the most selective colleges and universities? While your essay should be unique, your approach to … [Read More...]
Are college campuses prepared for COVID-19?
With each passing day more cases of COVID-19 are reported around the world. Meanwhile, every year college dorms across the United States become breeding grounds for viral and bacterial illnesses. Therefore, it would make sense for colleges from coast … [Read More...]
Caltech cuts SAT Subject Test, alters official ACT/SAT submission requirements
Caltech's Undergraduate Admissions office, with the support of the Faculty Committee on Freshman Admissions, has revealed that it's eliminating the university's long-standing requirement for submission of SAT Subject Test scores as part of the … [Read More...]
Tulane Shares Class of 2024 Early Decision and Early Action Stats
Tulane University has shared news about its Class of 2024 applicants who applied Early Decision and Early Action. Tulane received 27% more Early Decision applicants this cycle compared to last cycle, according to Jeff Schiffman, Tulane's Director … [Read More...]
Villanova Releases Early Action Stats for Class of 2024
Villanova University's Michael M. Gaynor, Executive Director of Undergraduate Admission, has shared news this morning as the university releases its Early Action decisions later today. According to Gaynor, Villanova received 13,353 Early Action … [Read More...]
College Counseling: The Year in Review
There are many years in the college counseling world that come and go without a lot of fanfare, but this certainly wasn’t one of them. Thanks to America’s ever-growing fascination with the college application process, counseling received more than … [Read More...]
Will Ivy League admissions deans blame the Russians next?
With Ivy League early decision and early action statistics for Fall 2019 slowly but surely coming into focus, a trend is becoming clear: overall demand for venerable "elite" colleges and universities is on the wane, and in the process, "elite" … [Read More...]
Use Winter Break to Make the Most of Summer Break
Take time in December to apply to the most coveted summer academic programs, internships, jobs, or community service activities if you want to have the best shot at getting them. … [Read More...]
Columbia unveils NYC-Tel Aviv dual degree program
Columbia University has announced a new Dual Degree Program between Tel Aviv University and Columbia University, which will complement Columbia’s ongoing successful Dual BA Programs with Sciences Po in France, now in its ninth year, and with Trinity … [Read More...]
How to Recover from Early Decision or Early Action Rejection
Depending on when you are reading this, you may be just days away from learning whether or not you have earned early action or early decision admission to your top choice college or university. Or you may have just gotten the news you dreaded … [Read More...]
How to Respond to an Early Decision or Early Action Deferral
Don't become devastated by an Early Decision or Early Action admissions deferral. Fight back and earn your spot at the college of your dreams. If the college or university that defers you remains one of your top choice colleges, there are a … [Read More...]
University of Georgia Releases Early Action Decisions and Stats
University of Georgia released its Early Action admissions decisions for the class of 2024 on Friday, November 22, 2019. UGA received 16,511 paid applications for Early Action this year, and the university will offer admission to 7,025 of these … [Read More...]
Penn Receives Far Fewer Early Decision Applications in 2019
The University of Pennsylvania only received 6,088 Early Decision (ED) applications for its Class of 2024 — down from 7,109 just last fall — a more than 14% drop from last year's number of ED applications. This news was first reported in The Daily … [Read More...]
Best College Acceptance Gifts for the Class of 2020
After applying Rolling on August 18, 2019, my first student in the Class of 2020 received on September 6, 2019 an offer of Fall 2020 admission to her first choice university. Thus, around these parts at least, Rolling Admission, Priority … [Read More...]
The Perfect Gifts to Celebrate Getting Into College
Now that you've gotten into college, it's time to celebrate! Welcome to the Class of 2020 College Acceptance Gift Collection presented by Admissions.Blog. These gifts run the gamut from college apparel to dorm safety products. No matter your budget or needs, we've got the perfect college-themed gifts that are a fun or practical way of celebrating getting into college. So, what are you waiting for? Start Shopping … [Read More...]
The Importance of The List
Today, former CollegeMeister client, Cole, University of Michigan Class of 2014, sits down with us to share how he benefited from CollegeMeister services - The List in particular, what he learned from his college experience, and where he's headed … [Read More...]
Expert Essay & Résumé Editing
Nothing ruins a university application quicker than submitting a less-than-perfect personal statement or essay. Take your personal statements and essays to the next level as soon as essay prompts are released this summer. Then, get help with … [Read More...]
Professional & Personalized Interview Prep
Admissions interviews need not be intimidating. Many universities offer applicants the opportunity to interview as part of the admissions process. Sometimes these interviews are informational (an informal exchange of ideas and information). Other times these interviews are evaluative … [Read More...]
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