Who Needs Recommendation Letters? Letters of recommendation fall into two categories—required and optional. Schools requiring letters will specify what they want, often one counselor letter and one or more teacher letters. Letters are optional for all other schools, but can often help reinforce a student’s strengths. Recommendations are almost essential in the following situations: A [...]
College admission seems inconsistent. We keep hearing stories from friends about students who get into one top school, but not others. How can a student get accepted at Harvard, rejected from Brown, and waitlisted at Yale? It happens all the time! Keep in mind college admission is subjective. When considering highly selective schools like Harvard, [...]
Too many parents and students can remember a bad experience from school where they felt work was unfairly evaluated. If different teachers look for different things, it seems improbably for a standardized system to grade things like the SAT essay section. Many wonder how SAT essays are graded and how the process could be [...]
The topic of internships may not seem timely for you, but before you surf off to another page, here are a few things to consider. Early spring is the perfect time for all students (high school and college) to begin making summer plans. Although most internship programs are geared towards college students, there are [...]
