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Our experts are real professionals in the field, offering their advice backed by many years of guidance and admissions. Their goal: to help you avoid the known pitfalls of past applicants.
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Choosing a School
If your experience is anything like mine, you received a great deal of advice when deciding which colleges you should apply to. There were family members offering a great deal of advice (sometimes unwanted), teachers giving their opinions, school mates encouraging you to attend the same school they were going to attend and even random strangers putting in their two cents.
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College Alumni Interviews
Competition for getting into elite colleges is fierce. How can you make yourself stand out? Of course, top grades in challenging courses and high test scores are important.
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SATs
Standardized Tests scores measure how well you take standardized tests. That's all they do.
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Planning Ahead
If you're looking at this page before you're even a junior, then you've started thinking about your future early, which is incredibly smart of you. Too many people wait until their senior years to realize that they should have taken this course or joined that club.
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Ivy Acceptance
It has almost been three years since I went through the process of applying to various colleges, but I remember it as if it were just yesterday. Where I ended up was going to determine what my future would be like for the next four years of my life.
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Highschool Pressure
The best advice I can give to a high school student thinking about college is, "Don't think about it too much." I am not saying that it is okay for them not to go to college - in fact, almost all students should.
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Considering a Small College?
I spent much of the summer before my senior year of high school on a whirlwind tour around the northeast during which I visited eleven colleges: Amherst, Williams, Wesleyan, Trinity, Connecticut College, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Haverford, and Swarthmore. Each visit included a combination of interviews, information sessions, guided campus tours, and informal walks around the neighborhoods.
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Choosing which colleges to apply to
I remember the first time I went on a campus tour. It was the summer after my sophomore year in high school when my parents made me leave my friend's house to visit UPenn with my brother, who had just finished his junior year in high school.
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Choosing a major
'Is this guy a real surgeon? Did he get his degree in Grenada?' Good questions to ask as you're sitting under a dangerous-looking Lasik machine, and a mall doctor is preparing to burn off part of your eyes to give you 20/40 vision. My Major = My Future Job?
It's great that ER docs, structural engineers, pilots, and the like have professional credentials which declare them to be fit for their particularly specialized occupations.
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The Federal Work-Study Program
Federal work-study is a program administered by the US Department of Education that aids in providing employment opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Students will find out if they are eligible after they fill out the Federal Application for Student Aid (FAFSA).
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Being International
I've lived most of my life away from my home country, Algeria. When I wassix, I moved to England and lived there for 8 years.
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Transfers: The Forgotten Few
My Gramps always said, "Transferring is like being stuck in front of a sewage spill on a one track rail road bridge over a rocky ravine with an oncoming train barrelin' toward ‘ya. There's no way ‘round it, it stinks a lot and it's all kinds a' messy, but you've gotta get over it or get through it.
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