College Admissions Counseling

Medical School Essays for BS/MD Applicants

Last time we spoke about the college essay for the BS/MD applicant. Today we are going to discuss what is important for the medical school essay for the BS/MD programs. The medical school questions may change from year to year but in my experience they will fall into one of four general categories. The first question [...]

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Medical School Essays for BS/MD Applicants

College Essays for BS/MD Applicants

Students applying to BS/MD programs need to write essays for the undergraduate college as well as the medical school. Today I want to talk about what you need to consider to write the best college essay. I am not talking about general things to consider when you write a college essay. Instead, I am discussing the [...]

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College Essays for BS/MD Applicants

Hamilton College Goes Need Blind for Admissions

Hamilton College in New York has announced that they will now be need blind for admissions. For those of you not up on your college financial aid jargon, this means that Hamilton will now make admissions decision without considering whether a student will need financial aid. Hamilton also meets 100% of the financial need of [...]

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Hamilton College Goes Need Blind for Admissions

6 Steps to Make Yourself the Best BS/MD Candidate

Younger students who are potentially interested in BS/MD programs often ask what they can do to make themselves the best candidate. Here are 6 steps that freshman and sophomores can take to strengthen their eventual applications. Step 1, get good grades. At a minimum, you need to be in the top 10% of your class and [...]

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6 Steps to Make Yourself the Best BS/MD Candidate

The Limitations of High School Counselors for College Admissions

A new survey out from Public Agenda and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has confirmed what I have said before here many times: don’t expect much college admissions help from your high school counselor. The survey involved 614 people between the ages of 22 and 30 who had at least some college education. [...]

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The Limitations of High School Counselors for College Admissions

Book Review-Life’s Little College Admissions Insights

Life’s Little College Admissions Insights-Top Tips from the Country’s Most Acclaimed Guidance Counselors is a new book by Eric and Cole Yaverbaum. Before continuing on to the review I want to disclose that I am one of the counselor’s quoted in the book. This book is a great place to start if you are just starting [...]

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Book Review-Life’s Little College Admissions Insights

Videos for College Admissions

Tufts University has been in the news recently because of the supplement to their application that allows a student to “Share a one-minute video that says something about you.” For Tufts optional essay, they allowed students to write on 7 different topics. But they also had a creative option that allowed students to create something out [...]

Is Average Class Size Important to Consider for College Admissions

I started out to write a posting about how class sizes as published by colleges can be misleading. But, I came across a posting from several years ago by a fellow college admissions consultant, Mark Montgomery, that addressed the issue so well I thought I would just let you read Mark’s article on class size [...]

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Is Average Class Size Important to Consider for College Admissions

How to Start the College Admissions Process

I spoke with Judy last week who was totally stressed out about finding the right college for her daughter. As Judy said, “it all seems so overwhelming.” There are many things that must be done to find the best college for a particular student, but if we break down the basic steps, it won’t seem [...]

What to Do on a College Visit

You’re about to arrive on the campus of one of your favorite colleges. What do you do? If you have planned ahead, you should be scheduled to go on a tour of the college. The tour will give you some basic information about the college but you can get much more from the tour. How? Talk [...]