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• Application & Personal Statement
  • 6 Laws your Letters of Recommendation must follow
  • Expressing diversity in the personal statement
  • Extracurricular Mistakes: What Every Student Does Wrong
  • How to get rejected
  • The 7-Point Application Inspection Checklist
• Choosing a College
  • 10 things to think about when picking a college
  • Common Questions and Concerns about Online Degrees
    • How to Spot a Diploma Mill
  • How to Pay In-State Tuition at Out-of-State Schools
  • What should I do during a campus visit?
• For Parents
  • How Parents can Deal Positively with Rejection
  • The 7 Questions You Must Ask to Save Thousands on College Tuition
  • The 9 Things Homeschoolers Must Do for College Admission
  • What You Should Push Your Child to Do (and What You Shouldn't!)
• Planning & Paying for College
  • Action Plan Calendar: What you should be doing right now
  • How to Compare Financial Aid Offers and What Different Types of Aid Mean
  • The 'Gap Year': When It's a Good Idea to Take a Year Off Before Starting College
  • Why (and How!) to Take Control of your Online Presence
• Standardized Tests
  • 25 Minute Miracle: How to earn a 12 on the SAT essay
  • SAT Answer Plan: How to optimize your score
    • SAT Answer Plan: How to optimize your score - Critical Reading
    • SAT Answer Plan: How to optimize your score - Math
    • SAT Answer Plan: How to optimize your score - Writing
  • Should I take the SAT or ACT?
  • Top 11 Grammar Mistakes the SAT Hopes You Make
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Blog Posts

• Category: Application & Personal Statement
  • 6 Laws your Letters of Recommendation must follow 10/03/08
  • 7 Things Savvy Good Students Do to Avoid Being Rejected Good Students 03/27/08
  • Applications with Flair: Ticket to the Accept Bin or the Trash Bin? 01/24/08
  • College Application Purgatory: What you Must Do if You're Waitlisted 02/15/08
  • Do boys have a better chance of getting into a college than girls? 02/06/08
  • Does Using Other Acceptances as Leverage to get more Financial Aid Work? 03/23/08
  • How Many Colleges Should I Apply To? 03/16/08
  • How to get rejected 01/20/08
  • Massive Increase in 2008 Applications 01/23/08
  • More on the Dangers of Personal Statement Coaching and Editing 02/16/08
  • Standing Out in a Sea of 121,000: The UC Admissions Game This Year 02/23/08
  • The 7-Point Application Inspection Checklist 01/19/08
  • Top 12 Tips to Perfect your College Application Resume - Part 1 04/08/08
  • Two Readers' Questions: Can My Admission Be Revoked After Being Accepted? 02/28/08
  • Why You Must Grab Attention on your Application, and How 03/02/08
  • Why You're Wrong about Your GPA, and what to Do about it 04/06/08
• Category: Carnival of College Admissions
  • Carnival of College Admissions: 1st Edition 03/18/08
  • Carnival of College Admissions: 2nd Edition 04/02/08
  • Carnival of College Admissions: 3rd Edition 04/09/08
  • Carnival of College Admissions: 6th Edition 05/08/08
  • Join the Carnival of College Admissions 03/11/08
• Category: Choosing a College
  • "College Is Harder than Ever to Get Into!" - Latest Misleading Shock Headline? 03/22/08
  • 10 things to think about when picking a college 01/18/08
  • Brown University Becomes Latest Ivy League to Offer Free College 02/24/08
  • Campus Visits Dos and Don'ts 04/02/08
  • Columbia Is Final Ivy League to Offer Free College 03/12/08
  • Endowment Figures for 2008 Now Available: Should you care? 01/25/08
  • Is 'Free College' Just a Pointless Gimmick? 03/14/08
  • Is an Online College right for me? 02/03/08
  • Ivy League Admissions Statistics for 2007 02/02/08
  • MIT Becomes Newest Free College Pioneer 03/09/08
  • Perhaps Yale Is Not As Friendly to Low-Income Students As Previously Thought 02/25/08
  • Reviewing the Princeton Review's Best 366 Colleges (2008 Edition) 02/22/08
  • The 'Free College' Fad is Catching On - Stanford and Washington Join Harvard and Yale 02/21/08
  • What should I do during a campus visit? 01/16/08
  • Why 'Undeclared' May Be a Good Idea 01/29/08
• Category: For Parents
  • Five Tips to Make Financial Incentives for Your Son/Daughter Work 03/15/08
  • How to Get a Homeschooled Student Into College 03/09/08
  • Reader Question: Saving Money on Tuition and Housing 01/29/08
  • Senioritis: The Miracle Cure of Burnout, Other Student Disorders 02/04/08
  • Should you stop claiming your son or daughter as a dependent on your taxes? 01/30/08
  • Stressed Parent? Try the Parent's College Admissions Mantra 02/12/08
  • Thank-You Notes: The Secret Edge to Winning a 'Yes'? 01/27/08
  • What Parents Don't Know About Financial Aid Will Hurt Them 03/06/08
  • When Good Students Are Rejected 03/26/08
• Category: Planning & Paying for College
  • 10 Ways to Fail the FAFSA 03/07/08
  • Action Plan Calendar: What should I be doing now? 01/15/08
  • Can I Take a Year Off Before College? 02/24/08
  • Could Rising Interest Rates on Student Loans Actually Be a Good Thing? 02/17/08
  • Don't Worry About the Money: Why Stressing About Student Loans is Unnecessary 03/08/08
  • FAFSA State Deadlines Approaching 01/25/08
  • Financial Aid Consultants: Spending Money to Make Money? 02/19/08
  • How to Compare Financial Aid Offers 02/05/08
  • Reader Question: Will One Bad Semester Kill Me? 02/01/08
  • The College Opportunity and Affordability Act: Why It's Good News 02/08/08
  • The Easy 'A' vs. the Honors 'B': The Myths and Lies of High School Class Selection 03/13/08
  • Three Days Until FAFSA Financial Aid Priority Deadline! 02/29/08
  • What to Do During Spring Break 03/22/08
  • Why (and How!) to Take Control of your Online Presence 02/10/08
• Category: Site News
  • College Affordability Websites Offering Free Hewlett-Packard Laptops 10/02/08
• Category: Standardized Tests
  • A New De-emphasis on SATs in the Ivy Leagues? 02/10/08
  • How to prepare for the SAT essay 01/26/08