by juliehanna | Sep 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
[socialring]You’ve heard of test-optional—some of the best schools in the country don’t require you to send your standardized test scores (Bowdoin, Bates, Sarah Lawrence, Denison). But application-optional? Goucher College (Towson, Md.) just went there. While the...
by juliehanna | Sep 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
[socialring]The Common App has an Additional Information section. It reads: “Please provide an answer below if you wish to provide details of circumstances or qualifications not reflected in the application. You may enter up to 650 words.” What do you do? When a...
by juliehanna | Sep 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
[socialring]Find yourself wandering the house aimlessly? Are you re-arranging that empty bedroom and suddenly strategically placing long-ago packed stuffed animals on the bed they used to inhabit? Tears welling up in the grocery store snack aisle for those favorites...
by juliehanna | Jul 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
[socialring]College essay time is upon us, and this should not be a bad thing. But for some reason it always is. Cottage industries have grown up around the writing of 500 words (and whatever supplements, usually shorter, that go along with it). One college essay...
by juliehanna | Jul 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
[socialring]I’ve written before about “the Flutie effect,” when colleges experience a spike in applications after a sports team’s success (named for Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie’s Hail Mary game-winning pass bumped BC’s apps by as much as 30% in 1984)—(see...
by juliehanna | Jun 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
[socialring]Last week University of Chicago sent out a “sneak peek” at its 2014-15 application supplemental essay questions. The University has somewhat of a reputation for, let’s just say, unusual essay questions. This year’s are no different....
