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This year, despite increasingly bank-breaking tuition costs and dwindling acceptance rates, more students than ever before applied to elite and name-brand schools – including those

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You’ve written your Common App essay, but it’s boring. You’ve added all the details you can think of; it still isn’t right, but you’re about

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Thinking of a career in STEM?  As you’re working on building your college list and preparing your college applications, there are a few things you

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Have you ever been taking a math test, got to a long word problem, and froze up because you had no idea where to begin?

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Test Prep

Can you believe it’s already June? AP exams have finished, finals are winding down, and summer vacation is either here or peeking over the horizon.

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The new SAT is coming in March 2024, but what does that mean exactly? How will those changes impact how you should be preparing for

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We all know that preparing for the ACT and SAT can take considerable time, but how much time should it take? How early should you

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While studying for the SAT or ACT, some applicants think, why not take both tests? I just want to see how I do—what’s the harm? 

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College Applications

Spring of Junior Year is the ideal time to start building a list of colleges you plan to apply to in the fall. By February,

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A lot of students don’t think much about their extracurricular resume – after all, you’re going to enter your activities on the Common App anyway,

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Your university is watching you.  Actually, every university you’re interested in is keeping track of the interactions you have with their emails and website. Called

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Well, folks, spring has (almost) sprung, and summer will be here before we know it! And you know what’s just around the corner from summer?

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College Essays

Don’t want your college application essay to get in the way of enjoying your summer? Considering that the Common Application Essay prompts and Apply Texas

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When it comes to writing your supplemental essays, one of the most important—and most overlooked—steps comes before you begin typing a single word: Research, research,

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You’ve finished your narrative essay and pasted it into your Common App, but your application isn’t complete! Whether they’re under the “writing” tab or hiding

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The nightmare: you’ve completed double-digit drafts of your narrative essay. You’ve revised so many times that you could recite all 650 words from memory. There’s

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