Hurray – U.S. News released their 2016 college rankings! Let’s jump right in… Top 20 National Universities Here are a few highlights from these rankings: • UPenn dropped from 8th place last year to 9th this year – this was the only school in last year’s top 10 to shift. • New to the top…
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New Federal Financial Aid Regulations Promote Transparency
Changes to FAFSA policies, thanks to executive action by the Obama administration aimed at streamlining the financial aid application process, will allow students and families to learn both their aid eligibility and the true cost of college much earlier in the process. A column in The Chronicle of Higher Education applauds the changes as “a…
Tips For Answering Dartmouth College Supplemental Essay Prompts
This post about the Dartmouth supplement to the Common Application is part of a series of posts written to help you complete the 2016 Common Application supplement for Ivy League and other top schools. Dartmouth College, like the other Ivy League schools, accepts the Common Application essay. It also requires a supplemental essay response. The extra essay helps…
A Med School With A Mission: Sophie Davis School Of Biomedical Education
A physician shortage looms large. Enter Dr. Maurizio Trevisan and the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, the newest accredited medical school in the United States. Listen to the show to find out how the City College of New York medical school is simultaneously paving the path to primary care for “unevenly educated students” and changing…
A Wharton Grad Rids the World of Bank Fees
BankMobile is bank with a vision, ATMs everywhere, no fees, and no branches. Want to know more, right? For the full scoop, listen to the entire recording of our conversation with Luvleen Sidhu, Wharton alum and Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at the mobile-only, fee-free bank for Millennials. 00:01:40 – Introducing Luvleen Sidhu and the…
An HBS Entrepreneur Promoting Career Flexibility
Check out our interview with HBS alum and entrepreneur Allison O’Kelly exploring the Flex Movement, the value of b-school for entrepreneurs, HBS, and more.
Why Is The SAT Scored From 600 To 2400?
There are only a few times in your life when you’ll look at test scores and see a number like 1200 or 2000. Wait, wait—there’s only one time, really: that’s the SAT. Ninety-nine percent of the tests you take are scored as a fraction or a percentage, so what gives? What’s the point of putting…
An Interview With Our Own: Dr. Rebecca Blustein
Curious about the life and times of our spectacular admissions consultants? Please enjoy our newest blog series in which we interview the fabulous people who make up the Accepted.com staff. First up is…Dr. Rebecca Blustein. Accepted: Can you tell us a little about yourself? Where and what did you study as an undergrad? Do you…
It’s about Way More than the Grades at the Ross BBA Program
Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what are you studying? Danny: I am from West Bloomfield. I am a senior at the University of Michigan studying Business. I also have a passion for technology so have taken various computer science and product design classes over the years….
Valentine’s Day, Economics, and Stanford GSB
The Valentine’s Day episode of Admissions Straight Talk — the perfect opportunity to invite… an economist to be our guest on the show. Listen to the full recording of our enlightening conversation with Dr. Paul Oyer, Professor of Economics, at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Dr. Oyer and Linda discuss the common thread between dating,…
Financial Aid and Health Insurance for International Students
If you are one of the adventurous souls planning on leaving your comfort zone to study abroad, we’d like to introduce you to a treasure trove of invaluable resources. Listen to the recording of our conversation with Ross Mason, VP of Envisage International for important tips and information about international student loans, health insurance, and…
Admissions Straight Talk: All Things Postbac
Who better to offer postbac admissions advice than an actual former postbac program director? Alicia McNease Nimonkar is the former director of the postbac program at UC Davis and the proud new author of, The Definitive Guide to Pre-Medical Postbaccalaureate Programs: The handbook for career changers and academic record enhancers who want a chance at…
PayScale: How Much Can You Earn, and How to Earn It?
Trying to figure out if grad school will pay off? How much you’ll earn with your career of choice? Which graduate program will position you to for the best payoff? If so, tune in to our conversation with Lydia Frank of PayScale to find out how to get the stats and info that you need…
New LinkedIn University Rankings
Exciting news! LinkedIn just launched new rankings that connect prospective students to universities based on career outcomes. Here’s how they did it (in their words) using software developers as an example: 1. First, we identified the top companies where software developers are choosing to work. 2. Next, we found people on LinkedIn who work as software developers and…
It’s Not Fair! How to Deal with Dings
It may or may not be fair, but many of you are going to get at least a few rejections. What are you going to do about them? First and foremost—if you’ve gotten dinged at your top choice school, that doesn’t mean that you’re never going to get in. It doesn’t even mean that you…
Do I Have to Write a Parent Letter of Recommendation?
As a parent, you might have thought your college application work was done, once you had overseen the last “submit” of the Common Application. And so it seemed — until you, or one of your friends, receive a letter inviting you to add a parent’s recommendation to your child’s college admission file. The parent recommendation,…
How to Choose a College Admissions Consultant
Earlier this week, my local high school had its college planning night for members of the class of 2013. As an admissions officer, I was often the guest speaker at such events, and as a high school counselor, the host. No matter how thorough we tried to be during that evening, families often left with…
College Values: A Discussion to Have with Your Eleventh Grader
A recent Today show segment highlighted Princeton Review’s Top College Values. In the short segment, they highlighted the top 3 public and private colleges deemed a ‘best value’. While the segment highlighted colleges that I hold in high esteem and have frequently recommended to students, I cringed. The cost of college is an important consideration…
Application Boxes Should Do the Heavy Lifting
For one of Accepted’s first forays into video, I decided to focus on application boxes, the mundane, pedestrian elements of an application that frequently are not given appropriate attention. Please watch the video to see how you make the ordinary into extraordinary, value-added elements of your application. Since this is our first attempt at providing…
5 Keys to Concreteness
I like to apply the principles established in Chip Heath and Dan Heath’s Made to Stick to personal statements and application essays. In this post I focus on concreteness. The third of Made to Stick‘s six key principles, concreteness, doesn’t seem to apply to intangibles like leadership, achievement, teamwork, or character – the topics you…