I’ve been checking the University of Chicago’s website for weeks, hoping they’ve posted this coming fall’s new supplemental essay prompts – because UC’s are always the most cerebral, the most philosophical, oftentimes, the most demanding. Well, no essay prompts for this year yet, but today the University made headline news around the country for another Continue Reading »
Today’s Washington Post brings one of the more revealing – and surprising – articles about college applications essays that I’ve ever read. The key words are Yale, pizza, and Auburn University. But the main point is that the Yale Admissions Office reads students’ entire applications, whether the prompts are from the Common Application or the Continue Reading »
Thank you, Amherst Admissions Office, for this peek backstage! What a privilege it is to see video of AOs discussing an applicant. This fascinating video – a behind-the- scenes peek at how Amherst College makes decisions about whom to admit and whom to put on the waiting list – has been online for a while, but every Continue Reading »