Admissions Uncovered

The November early application deadline is coming up quickly: learn about the differences between early action, early decision, early decision 2, and regular decision, whether applying early is advantageous, how you should pick between all your options, and what you should do if you are deferred.

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Helpful Article on Early Action vs Early Decision

List of Early Action Schools

Huntsman Program at The University of Pennsylvania

University of Virginia

Princeton University Single-Choice Early Action

University of Chicago Early Decision 1 and 2

List of Schools with Rolling Admissions

Early vs Regular Application for The Ivy League

SAT/Subject Tests Dates

ACT Dates

Common Application Essay Prompts

Lacy Crawford Book Review

We talk about best practices for writing college essays, brainstorm ideas for the CommonApp and ApplyTexas prompts, and explain how you can get feedback on your essays.

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Common Application

Apply Texas

University of California Application

Colleges Accepting the Common Application

Common Application Prompts

Coalition Application

Colleges Accepting the Coalition Application

Essay Tips by the Common Application

We know summer just started, but it’s time to start thinking about the fall and college applications. We talk about what rising seniors need to be doing this summer to get ready from testing to essays and so much more.

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Register for the SAT

Register for the ACT

Register for SAT 2 Subject Tests

AP Tests

SAT/Subject Tests Dates

ACT Dates

All SAT 2 Subject Tests with average scores

Score Choice

Colleges and Required Subject Tests

SAT/ACT Scores by University (for best information visit the university’s website or Princeton Review Page for the university)

Which test to take?

Common Application

Common Application Essay Prompts

Cameron Impact Scholarship

Gates Millennium Scholarship

Making a Summer Plan

Exploring College Options

Exploring Educational Excellence

College Interview Tips

Join us to explore the various bits and pieces of the Common App: the profile, the honors, the extracurricular, and much more.

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Common Application

Schools Using the Common Application

Universal Application

ACT

SAT/AP Tests

National Merit Scholarship

Common Application Essay Prompts

Common Application Honors Section Help (another helpful link)

Common Application Activities

Princeton Prize in Race Relations

Cameron Impact Scholarship

Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation

All-American Scholar Award for Debate

Chinese Institute of Engineers Young Achiever Award in DFW

Scholastic Art and Writing Awards

Calvin Coolidge Scholarship

Jefferson Scholars University of Virginia

Presidential Volunteer Service Award

AP Scholar Awards

National Honor Society

Join us to learn about picking between schools to apply to, touring schools, and “target” schools with some intermittent dissing of different schools’ campuses… #sorrynotsorry

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Michael Gao

Nhi Nguyen

Dominic Cischke

Register for the SAT

Harvard

Brown

Dartmouth

Princeton

College Fly in Programs

Discover Swarthmore

Seeking Opportunities at Rice

Safety, Target, and Reach Schools

NYU Abu Dhabi

Merit Based vs. Need Based Aid

Cambridge

London School of Economics

Columbia in Paris

UK Schools

University of Southern California

Vanderbilt

University of Virginia

University of Texas at Austin

Amherst

Williams

Boston College

Grinnell

NYU

UT Honors Program

Rice

UT Southwestern