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June 30, 2026
Most applicants spend weeks perfecting their Harvard essays and then treat the alumni interview as an afterthought. That's a mistake. The interview is the one…
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June 29, 2026
Many students don't think seriously about who writes their recommendation letters until October of their application year — often leaving too little time to…
June 26, 2026
Recommendation letters that help are ones that add information your application file cannot contain on its own — the thinking, character, and work habits…
June 25, 2026
Most students searching for Harvard personal statement examples want to copy a winning topic — but the topic is never the problem. The technique is. I know…
June 24, 2026
Yale received tens of thousands of applications in its most recent admissions cycle. Every one of them included a Common App essay. The same essay, in most…
June 23, 2026
In our work with BC students applying to US colleges, we've noticed that most are asking the wrong question about extracurriculars. The question isn't "which…
June 22, 2026
Every week, families come into our consultations with the same assumption: pack the resume, lead something, volunteer somewhere, and Harvard will notice. The…
June 19, 2026
There are roughly 3,500 spots in Cornell's incoming class. Brooks School fills a small share of them — and most BC public school counsellors have never…
June 18, 2026
There's a public school UPenn essentially co-runs in West Philadelphia — no tuition, no entrance exam, no application — and most people outside the catchment…
June 17, 2026
Burnaby North students can get into UC Berkeley CS — but the international acceptance rate sits below 5%, and EECS is closer to 2-3%. Burnaby North sends…
June 16, 2026
Brown University's Open Curriculum — and the Meiklejohn peer advising framework built around it — gets misrepresented constantly. Either it's a free-for-all…
June 15, 2026
Columbia's Economics Department accepted roughly 1 in 25 applicants last cycle. St. George's has sent students into that pool — and they got in. The…
