Michael Brown, a Senior from a Houston Public High School, applied to 20 top colleges in the US and got accepted to all of them! How did he do this? Was his essay instrumental in getting him into these top colleges? Please read the below article and ask yourself whether or not his essay was absolutely awesome and worthy of getting accepted to so many good schools! By the way, Michael will be attending Stanford University next year! https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/20

Ziad Ahmed, a Bangladeshi-American teenager from New Jersey, wrote #BlackLivesMatter 100 times when asked in his Stanford University application "What matters to you and why?" Would you have done this? Do you believe this essay is suitable for top schools such as this one? Read the article about his essay: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/muslim-teenager-ziad-ahmed-blacklivesmatter-stanford-application-100-times-repeat-university-a7665591.html #collegeaccepta

US News and World Magazine's college rankings for 2017 are now available! Check them out: http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges #collegeranking #eliteinstitutions #usnwr

A what you say? MOOCs stand for Massive Open Online Courses. Many students, especially those who are Seniors, are taking these free, no-credit online courses from institutions such as Harvard University all the way to Stanford University. Unfortunately, even though they were originally intended for college-level students, many high school students are taking them in order to pad their extracurricular activities over the summer. Would you consider taking a MOOC over the summ

High School Senior, Brittany Stinson, got into 5 Ivy League schools and into Stanford University with a now famous and very mundane essay called simply "Costco". I mean what can be more mundane than a visit to Costco? Check it out! Do you think this is "Ivy-material"? http://www.businessinsider.com/high-school-senior-who-got-into-5-ivy-league-schools-shares-her-admissions-essay-2016-4?utm_content=bufferdc218&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer #com

The New York Times' Frank Bruni published an opinion column on March 30, 2016 claiming that Stanford University had declined to admit anyone for the class of 2020. In other words, there would be no freshman class in the fall i.e. their acceptance rate was that of 0%. Even though this was meant to be a satire on the college admission process, pretty soon we may see many other popular schools having single digits acceptance rates as student population increases! Check out the A

Do you feel like you didn't do very well in your SAT I, SAT II nor in your ACT exams? No worries! There are more than 180 schools that you can apply to that do not accept entrance exams. In this list, there are even top rated schools such as Bowdoin and Middlebuy in the Liberal Arts category and Wake Forest and New York University in the Universities categories. So do not worry and give it a shot! Oh, and when they mean optional, it truly means optional - do not send your sco

Just last week, US News and World Report magazine published their Best College Rankings for 2016. As much as this ranking is taken very seriously by students and their parents, it is not the only ranking out there. There are many others who are as equally informative as this one. Because of this, students should not exclusively rely on USNWR rankings to determine which schools to apply to. Instead, students should examine all rankings to get a sense of a college and see if it

US News and World Magazine's college rankings for 2016 are now available! Check them out: http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges #collegeranking2016 #collegerankings #eliteinstitutions #usnwr

Every year, it is getting more and more competitive to enter into the top universities in the United States. Check out some of the Admission Rates for this year's Class of 2019: Admission Rate Admission Rate School Class of 2019 Class of 2018 Boston College 28.00% 33.60% Boston University 32.00%