Category: Common Application
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Thoughts On What 2023 College Admissions Tell Us About Future Applications
As the last few college offers trickle in it’s time to take a step back and consider what we can glean from the wins and rejections our students have received in the 2022/23 application cycle and the messages being received from different quarters of the college application universe. Read more
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Planning for College: First and Last Steps
Students in Grade 11 are starting the final full year of school before they start to submit their college applications, making this an important year. Here are some things to keep you on track. Read more
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Still Writing Your Common App Essay? 5 Tips to Help You
With the submission deadline for applying in the early round of US college applications rapidly approaching, you will hopefully be well on the way to finishing your personal essay. If you are struggling, then hopefully, this article will help as I share five tips from college admission professionals that can help you create a winning… Read more
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Supplemental Essays: A Take on Short Takes
The Application Season is here and we are as excited as you are!In this blog, I will take you through tips for writing those seemingly insignificant short take supplemental questions that first few, now many, colleges are including as part of their mandatory essay requirements. Read more
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Getting to Know the Common App
Anybody aspiring to attend college in the United States will come across the Common Application. In excess of one million students use it each year to make their application to colleges from Maine to California. Here is the Ivy Central quick guide to the Common App. Read more
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WHY THIS MAJOR ESSAY?
In less than a month’s time, the big reveal of Supplemental Essays will take place. While there could be a variety of supplemental essays that colleges/universities ask their students to answer, one of the most common and prominent is the one about what would you like to study in college. We call it the ‘Why… Read more
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SUPPLEMENTAL ESSAYS: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
How does the University of Chicago, as you know it now, satisfy your desire for a particular kind of learning, community, and future? Please address with some specificity your own wishes and how they relate to UChicago. Read more
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The Newest Common Application Prompt & Ways to Answer It
For the application year 2021-22, the Common Application has announced a new essay prompt -“Reflect on something that someone has done for you that has made you happy or thankful in a surprising way. How has this gratitude affected or motivated you?” Read more