Adrianne Owings
Update on the 2020-2021 College Admissions Cycle
By this point, many colleges and universities have concluded their Regular Decision processes, notified applicants, and released their...
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Adrianne Owings
- Mar 9, 2021
- 5 min
COVID-19 and Your College Application
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended normal practices for colleges and universities around the world, and the admissions process is no...
Adrianne Owings
- Feb 27, 2021
- 4 min
Why Specificity Matters in College Essays
In the 2020-2021 admissions cycle, Harvard College received more than 57,000 applications: a record high and a 42 percent surge in...
Racquel Bernard
- Dec 30, 2020
- 3 min
Last-Minute College Application Checklist
The January 1st deadline is fast approaching! Use this checklist as you finalize your applications or let us help. This first group of...
H&C Education
- Nov 30, 2020
- 6 min
Last-Minute Strategies For Ivy League Applications
Article originally published on Forbes.com College application deadlines are just around the corner. At this point, high school seniors...
Pierre Huguet
- Nov 19, 2020
- 4 min
Forbes - How To Get Into Top Colleges: Create Your Student Brand
Last year’s admissions cycle produced the lowest acceptance rates in history at Ivy League schools and at most other elite colleges...
H&C Education
- Oct 15, 2020
- 5 min
5 Questions Parents Always Ask College Consultants (With Answers!)
There’s no such thing as a bad question. And when it comes to college admissions, many parents share the same doubts and anxieties.
H&C Education
- Sep 21, 2020
- 3 min
3 Tips For Beginning Your College Essay
The college essay is the hardest part of the application process. For many students, it’s difficult to get going.
H&C Education
- Sep 10, 2020
- 3 min
5 College Essay FAQs
You’ve probably heard that it’s a bad idea to write your college application essay about world peace, a sports game (or sports in general)..
H&C Education
- Aug 2, 2020
- 5 min
How To Ace Your Supplemental Essays
Supplemental essays are personal statements. They need to be about you, tell a compelling story, and so on.
H&C Education
- Aug 1, 2020
- 4 min
Supplemental Specifics: How to Write about Someone Else
As you probably already know, the point of your college application is to give admissions committees a solid sense of who you are.
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- Aug 1, 2020
- 7 min
How To Write The University of Chicago Supplemental Essays (2020-2021)
Welcome to the supplemental essays for the University of Chicago! UChicago is known for having some of the most creative essay questions.
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- Jul 28, 2020
- 5 min
What College Admissions Officers Said About My Yale Application
“SR 2xsci 10, 11. JHCTY online MV Calc 12 fits w/Hutch internship. Supp: Hutch MD a rare gem.”
This is the language of admissions officers.
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- Jul 14, 2020
- 6 min
How to Refine a Draft of Your Common App Essay
Once you have an idea for your common application essay, how do you work that piece into something ready to submit?
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- Jul 5, 2020
- 5 min
How to Draft Your Common App Essay
After coming up with a topic (see my post here on coming up with one if you don’t yet), putting words on a page is an intimidating step.
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- Jun 28, 2020
- 5 min
How to Find a Topic for Your Common App Essay
Many students find this open-endedness paralyzing, worried they’ll select a bad topic from the start and doom their applications.
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- Jun 8, 2020
- 4 min
The Art of a Great First Sentence
“Dear Human, I’m sixty percent banana.” This sentence began an essay that helped me get into Stanford.
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- May 31, 2020
- 5 min
How to Write Any "Why This College?" Essay
Admissions officers love these questions because they make it so easy to weed out applicants who aren’t top-tier university caliber.
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- May 24, 2020
- 4 min
The Right Way to Discuss COVID-19 on Your College Applications
Writing about COVID-19 in the wrong way can doom your application to the reject pile instantly, while writing about it in the right way...
H&C Education
- Sep 28, 2019
- 5 min
How To Write The University of Chicago Supplemental Essays (2019-2020)
Welcome to the supplemental essays for the University of Chicago! UChicago is known for having some of the most creative essay questions.
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