Do you know what a college admissions yield is? It is the thing that keeps admissions officers up at night, especially in the month leading to national decision day, on May 1st. While March drags for students as they await admissions decisions, April is the month that feels endless for admissions officers. That’s because the…
Senior year – the culmination of all the hard work your student has been doing to prepare for college. Application time is when all that they have been doing to prepare comes together. Ideally, you and your student have followed all of the advice about starting the college admissions process early. But if you haven’t,…
The acceptance letters arriving in the mail or inbox are cause for celebration! But often, those acceptances bring some stress for students. Sometimes, students have sent in their applications six months (or more!) before receiving that acceptance. It may have been a year or more since they set foot on that campus. And in that…
When beginning the college search process, we get hit with a whole new vocabulary we have to learn. Regular decision. Rolling Admissions. Early Decision. Early Action. The latter two Early Admissions programs are easily confused with each other. Here’s what you need to know: Regular Decision This one is easy. It’s the latest published date…
FINALLY! The college acceptances have begun to roll in! So the work is over, right? Wrong! Here’s what to do after you get accepted to college. New deadlines and decisions are ahead. The NEW List of Things to Do After the Official Acceptance: Visit the School. If you have not visited the college yet, now…
A prominent university in my state recently announced their admissions decisions. I was only peripherally aware of it. I had noted somewhere in the back of my mind though, that my social media feed didn’t show any parents excitedly announcing their child’s acceptance. It seemed odd because I had seen lots of posts about another…