Admissions Offices will usually forgive the mistake, but not the lie. Blemishes are never attractive. Whether they are the hormonally-induced variety or those that raise a red flag in the admissions office, neither one is what a student wants to be dealing with during the college application     Continue Reading...

Lots of high school seniors currently find themselves sitting across from an empty computer screen wondering just how to write an application essay that is memorable. Most fail. That’s because they are writing either what they think a college admissions representative wants to read or they     Continue Reading...

Here’s a college admissions term I bet you haven’t heard before: “summer melt.” In admissions jargon, it’s the term for high school seniors who paid deposits in May but don’t attend orientation and don’t show up on move-in day. Traditionally, melt rates range     Continue Reading...