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In an effort to level the playing field, the SAT are instituting a "diversity score." Read all about it here!

I was interviewed for NBC News recently about the college admissions scandal. You can read the story here!

One Ohio high school has done the extraordinary, produced 17 students who all received perfect ACT scores. Read all about it here!

With all of the horrible stories from college admissions lately, we need some good news. Here is some. Read it here!

This is another in a series of posts about some memorable applicants, their essays, and how we found them together. Early on the morning of December 4, I got a frantic phone call from a woman in Boston whose daughter had been deferred from Yale. The mother explained...

There seems to be a call for colleges to stop requiring SAT and ACT test scores. Read about it here, in the Washington Post.

This is another in a series of posts about some memorable applicants, their essays, and how we found them together. Alex was one of my favorite recent applicants.  Bright, introspective, funny, Alex had the grades and test scores he needed - 4.0 student and a 1560 SAT...

Here's a very helpful and informative article about how to beat big data in college admissions. Read it here.

For the second time in three years, BC has changed their admissions process. Read about it here.

Application growth finally slows at UC schools. Read about it here.