After showing the interviewer that you are polite, organized, punctual, and maturely dressed, you are well on your way to acing the alumni interview. Here are some tips for how to capitalize on your initial good impression. What You Should Do 1. Make eye contact We said this in our first post in the series, […]
How to Ace Your Alumni Interviews Part I: Before, During, and After the Interview
About the Interviewers Before we get started, here’s a brief introduction about the alumni interviewers and the role they play in your interview. Alumni interviewers are passionate about the school and love their alma mater. Ranging from recent graduates to alumni of 50+ years, they cover the spectrum in terms of majors, activities, religions, ethnicity, […]
Paying for College 101: When Financial Aid is Not Enough
One of the most stressful parts of college admissions is figuring out how to pay for the next four years. The process alone is daunting: you must fill out pages of forms and applications, complete the FAFSA and CSS PROFILE, submit tax returns for both you and your parents, and get everything sent off and […]
5 Recommendations for Your College Application Essays
After your SAT and ACT scores and your GPA, your essays are the most important part of your college application. Why? Because they are the only part of your whole file that encompasses you and your personality entirely. Your essays let schools see how you think, what you find important, how you write, and how […]
College Admission Tips: Educational Options After High School
You’re on the last leg of your high school education, about to head out on your own and take on the world. Understandably, you feel powerful. You’re finally going to live life the way you want it, and start forging your own path. Wwith great power, however, also comes great responsibility: You must now choose […]
Letter Grades, Percentages, and GPAs
If you’re applying to college, you’ll hear a lot of talk about your GPA, and how much it matters in the college admissions process. Many students find the topic confusing: How come it’s a number from 0.0 to 4.0? What if my school gives out grades as percentages from 0 to 100? What if my school […]
Admission Tips: Four Pointers for Your College Application Résumé
There are a lot of items you will need to procure or create when putting together your college applications: transcripts, teacher recommendations, and essays, to name a few. You may also have to put together and submit a résumé. Given that most high schoolers have never had to put together a résumé for anything other […]
Admissions Tips: Letters of Recommendation from Non-Teachers
The first person everyone thinks about when they’re looking to get a letter of recommendation is a teacher. This makes perfect sense, of course–letters of recommendation for college are almost always required to address academic performance, and who better to do that than someone who has taught you in an academic subject? However, if a college […]
Admission Tips: Letters of Recommendation From Teachers
College applicants often consider the teacher recommendation letter to be a bothersome and relatively useless part of the application and thus don’t worry about it until the absolute last possible moment. This is a mistake. Recommendations can not only sway college admissions officers in your favor, but also sway them against it. It’s important to […]
Volunteering is Good for Others AND Yourself… and Your College Applications
Everyone knows that helping others gives you good karma…but did you know it can give you career guidance, too? It can! Helping out with service organizations and volunteering your time and expertise to different causes not only helps out your community, it also lets you “try on” different jobs and see which ones fit the […]