We have previously discussed the impact volunteer work and civic engagement can have on the admissions process for applicants who have...

With several prominent schools again requiring standardized testing we are seeing an increasing number of students focusing on SAT and...

Another year of increasing admissions competition, with the Common App reporting a 6% increase in applicants compared with the same...

Recently, EAB, an education consultancy, released the results of a survey of 182 national colleges and universities while The Princeton...

With the new calendar year, we thought it would be a good time to highlight some of the emerging trends impacting admissions and some...

With early action and early decision responses arriving in student mailboxes we thought it would be a good time to update families on how...

The Holistic admissions process continues to change the factors that matter in the admissions process at the vast majority of colleges...

With the release of another survey focusing on the impact of AI on the college admissions process we thought it would be a good time to...

With the increasingly competitive nature of college admissions and the less predictable results that many schools are seeing, we thought...

The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC) is the research arm of the National Student Clearinghouse, a non-profit that...

With the recent publication of a number of articles discussing AI and its potential impact on the college admissions process, we have...

The summer break presents students and their families with an opportunity to put together their college admissions strategy. Early...

With the Gaza-related campus protests of the past few months, parent questions and concerns about social media and social media postings...

With 95% of colleges utilizing a holistic admissions decision process, families have been struggling for several years to determine how...

With tuitions hitting record high levels and a seemingly endless parade of negative news around colleges, families are increasingly...

Recently, there has been a great deal of focus on AI’s impact on college essays, but less on its broader effect on admissions. A fairly...

With Yale, Dartmouth ,Brown and UT Austin all bringing back standardized testing requirements in one form or another we have received a...

The impact of AI on all parts of society has been a hot button issue in the press for many months. While there has been a great deal of...

The early read on the current admissions season points to another year of increasing difficulty. While it isn’t a complete surprise that...

As the 2023-24 admissions cycle progresses and the news and noise related to changes in Affirmative Action quiets down a bit, we have...