Trends in Ivy League Admission
Increasing Selectivity at the Elite Colleges Nevermind the fact that only 1% of the U.S. college-going population will be educated at an Ivy League university, or that the acceptance rate to virtually all of these hover around 10% or less every year (Cornell being the exception), these statistics...
Key Information About the New SAT
Key Information About the NEW SAT First off, if you are reading this now (April 2014) and you are in Grade 10 or higher, relax, because the new SAT will not come into use until spring of 2016. Keep preparing for the SAT as you have been, in its current form. For others, here is a very brief summary...
College Rejection Letter
The Personal Anguish of the College Rejection Letter This can be an exciting and gut-wrenching time of year, especially for students and their parents, but also for admission officers and counsellors or educational consultants who support the students. Admissions decisions are being made, letters...
Is a 4 Year Degree Worth It?
With stories all around us of the neighbor’s daughter and our friend’s third cousin twice removed driving a taxi after completing a bachelor’s degree, one might wonder whether the time and expense is all worthwhile. As a rising high school graduate considering college, you might just be...
Early Athletic Recruiting
Exciting Opportunity for Talented Athletes or Potentially Harmful Shift? Athletic Recruiting You may be thinking that it would be a wonderful thing to have your child recruited to play their sport on a full athletic scholarship at a Division I university. Perhaps rightly so, and you would be in the...
That wretched guidance counsellor
Educational Guidance Counsellor As a high school student in New York in the 80’s, I got little help with my career planning or choosing or applying to university, even as one of the strongest students in my class, and most of my peers who graduated high school at that time would agree. “Oh that...