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Colleges are cutting the "Why Us" essay. Here's what actually changes for your rising seniors.
6 selective universities eliminated or reduced supplemental essay requirements for the 26/27 cycle. The stated reason is stress. The reasoning underneath it says more.
Since April, six selective universities have announced they were elimin...
UC calls it test-blind. Most families hear test-optional. The gap between those two words is costing applicants a real strategy right now.
The UC Board of Regents met this week as a faculty-led review of the policy gets underway. Here is what the policy actually does today.
A family building a list this summer says it often without thinking twice: our son is strong on paper b...
Legacy admissions is illegal at some of your clients' target schools now. Most families have no idea which ones.
Five states have banned it, two of them just hit their first compliance deadline, and the ban only applies to some of the schools families assume it covers.
A family sits down for an intake session with a familiar opening line: my husband...
Your client spent a year on their application. Build it for the eight minutes it will actually get.
Court records and a year inside three admissions offices show how a file gets read, and what that means for the activity list, the essay, and the additional information box.
Somewhere between the confirmation email and the decision letter,...
The IEP cliff: why accommodations don't automatically follow the student to college
Here is what actually replaces an IEP or 504 plan in college, and the summer work that decides whether a family finds out in September or in April
For twelve years, a school district found this student. It evaluated her, built her IEP (Ind...
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