Social Media Footprint and College Admissions
Social Media Footprint and College Admissions College/University-bound students, should you be concerned about your social media activity, regarding admissions? Will admissions officers review your accounts? If so, how frequently is this standard practice in admissions offices? And, if they do, how...
What Aspects of a College (post-secondary education) Experience Are Most Closely Linked to Success in Life?
What Aspects of a College (post-secondary education) Experience Are Most Closely Linked to Success in Life? If you are a Grade 12 heading off to college in the fall, or a Grade 10 or 11 student researching colleges, consider the importance of seeking out these things in your college experience or...
US Universities Seeking Transfer and International Students
US Universities Seeking Transfer and International Students In the 2015 NACAC State of Admission report, statistics highlighted efforts on the part of many universities to focus on recruiting these two populations. Overall, for Canadians as well as other international students, this means you will...
Trends in Ivy League Admission
Increasing Selectivity at the Elite Colleges Nevermind the fact that only 1% of the U.S. college-going population will be educated at an Ivy League university, or that the acceptance rate to virtually all of these hover around 10% or less every year (Cornell being the exception), these statistics...
College Rejection Letter
The Personal Anguish of the College Rejection Letter This can be an exciting and gut-wrenching time of year, especially for students and their parents, but also for admission officers and counsellors or educational consultants who support the students. Admissions decisions are being made, letters...
Is a 4 Year Degree Worth It?
With stories all around us of the neighbor’s daughter and our friend’s third cousin twice removed driving a taxi after completing a bachelor’s degree, one might wonder whether the time and expense is all worthwhile. As a rising high school graduate considering college, you might just be...
That wretched guidance counsellor
Educational Guidance Counsellor As a high school student in New York in the 80’s, I got little help with my career planning or choosing or applying to university, even as one of the strongest students in my class, and most of my peers who graduated high school at that time would agree. “Oh that...