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1011, 2015

Your Ivy League College Admissions Interview: How to Prepare & What to Expect

By |November 10th, 2015|Categories: The Harvard Admissions Interview|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

It's incredibly nerve-wracking to have to go into a room and have a stranger decide your future.  If you're also a top student (like I was), it's even more nerve-wracking to not know if you're really going to get to go to a top-tier, super-elite school like Harvard, Princeton, MIT, or Yale and have your future and career almost completely laid out for you, or if you really even have the slightest chance of getting in at all. How To Prepare for Ivy League College Admissions Interview? That's why I've laid out the top questions students often hear during their Ivy League college interviews. Even if you're not applying to the Ivy League, this will work for any other competitive top to mid-tier college, too. So, whether you're applying to Harvard and Princeton, or Boston University and NYU, studying these questions will help you be more prepared in terms of what to expect from your college interview, and how to be more confident during the interview itself, because nothing will take you by surprise. As an overview though, college admissions officers want to know that you have the maturity to speak clearly, that you can be comfortable even in a

806, 2015

Top 2 Ivy League College Admission Essay Books

By |June 8th, 2015|Categories: college, College Admissions, Harvard, Ivy League, Ivy League Advice, Ivy League College, Princeton|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Hoping to land a spot at one of the top schools in the US? Or, are you a high school student applying to college this year? Is it your dream to go to an Ivy League college and one day graduate from Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia ,Brown,  Dartmouth, Cornell, or UPenn? Or maybe you're interested in one of the many other extremely competitive and excellent "Top Ten" schools in the country, such as MIT, Stanford, Duke, UCLA, etc., etc. Learn what it takes to get in and gain admission to an Ivy League college with the help of these books and come your dreams true. The below are the top 2 Ivy League college admission essay books that I personally recommend.  In fact, I wrote the Ivy League College Admissions Guidebook, below! Both of these books give you a great overview of the types of essays that actually work, and the additional tools you need to navigate he process and get you into an Ivy League college!   [Click on the words, not the photo of the book, below!] 1. 50 Successful Harvard Application Essays 2. The Ivy League College Admissions Guidebook [Want more college consulting help and advice?

506, 2015

Applying to an Ivy League College? Common App Essay Advice from a Former Harvard Interviewer!

By |June 5th, 2015|Categories: Brown, College Admissions, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Ivy League, Princeton, UPenn, Yale|Tags: , , , , , , , , |1 Comment

1. What are some of the common misconceptions/mistakes you see regarding students’ Common App Essay Ivy League? Do you have any general advice for the Common App? The biggest mistake I see students repeatedly make with the Common App Essay Ivy League, is not understanding what makes them unique. Schools are looking for “original thinkers”…. “original doers” and in your Common App Essay Ivy League you want to show off just what makes you different from your peers. It may be something you don’t even realize, or pay much attention to, so look for it! I had one student for example, who had spent her life studying ballet at a very high artistic level, where she was even asked to join a big city ballet company as an apprentice, and yet she didn’t think this was something worth mentioning, and instead wrote her essay on a science fair she participated in (wrong approach). Another student of mine had had an extremely interesting life growing up in a town where he and his brother were the only Jewish kids in their entire school system in the rural South. He (again, wrong approach) wrote about going on a summer trip to Mexico

3105, 2015

How to Prepare Your Kids For An Ivy League College Education

By |May 31st, 2015|Categories: The Harvard Admissions Interview|2 Comments

If you have always dreamed of having your son or daughter graduate from an Ivy League college -- which, to define the term, are the eight schools that make up the Ivy League and including: Harvard, Princeton, Yale (the "Big Three"), as well as Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania --  there are many thing you can do that will help your teen succeed in the Ivy League college admissions and college application process. Here are the steps of How To Prepare Kids For An Ivy League College: #1.  Make sure they take as many AP courses as possible:  College admissions officers, especially Ivy League college admissions officers want to see that your student is not only challenging themselves by taking the most challenging courses possible at their particular school, but they want to see that they are ALREADY fully immersed in college-level classes, before they even get to college. So, if your student's high school DOESN'T offer any AP course work, make sure they get it somewhere else (like enrolling in a community college at night). This shows that they will be able to handle the work-load once they get in to a highly competitive school.  It

2302, 2015

Thinking About Transferring to Another College? What You Need to Know…

By |February 23rd, 2015|Categories: Berkeley, Boston University, Brown, College Admissions, Columbia, Common App, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Emory, Harvard, Ivy League, Michigan, MIT, NYU, Princeton, Standford, UCLA, UGA, UPenn, Yale|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Thinking about transferring colleges? Know what to expect with my top tips!

210, 2014

Common App College Essay Prompts and How to Master Them for Your Ivy League Application!

By |October 2nd, 2014|Categories: Brown, College Admissions, Columbia, Common App, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Ivy League|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |1 Comment

So, it's official.  You've decided it's time to start working on your Common App. Good for you!  Great even.  You're not procrastinating!  That is, until you looked at the prompts and thought, "I have absolutely NO IDEA what to say, let alone guess what the colleges are even looking for."  This thought perhaps made you panicked, sick, ill, malaised (i.e. good SAT word, write it down), and forced you to have visions of working at a donut shop for the rest of your life, (not that there's anything wrong with that). Get more information on How to Master the Common App Essay! Perhaps you had plans though of potentially setting off for Harvard, Princeton, Yale, or some other picturesque U.S. school to watch football games, meet great life-long friends, STUDY and get an excellent education, and just do something incredibly solid and interesting with your life...but then messed it all up with the Common App and destroyed the dream.  Done.  OVER.  Donut? Well, stop worrying.  We're going to go through the prompts one by one, and if you take away my key points from each of the questions, you're going to do more than fine. Prompt #1: Some students have a

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