Sara Harberson is a college admissions expert with over 20 years of experience in higher education and private counseling.

College applications reward participation over perfection. Ivy League and selective schools value students who engage with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. As the CEO of Command Education, I write about emotionally intelligent leadership and education. Whether you are applying to your ...

“I immediately started crying because I never thought that I could achieve this,” Morgan Gagnon ’27 wrote to The Daily Princetonian about her admission to Princeton on Mar. 30. “It was a crazy moment ...

An unspoken set of rules have always governed the college admissions process for many Asian families. They understand, for example, that an Indian male applying to study computer science or a Chinese ...

No one’s surprised when they hear that one champion picked up a tennis racket at age four or when a chess prodigy began competing at five. Olympic swimmers? Often in the pool before they can write ...

Princeton University has recently announced that it will reinstate SAT or ACT testing requirements for undergraduate applicants beginning in the fall 2027 admission cycle. The decision follows a seven ...

For many ambitious students across India, "Ivy League" isn't just a set of eight universities , it's a golden ticket to global recognition. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Cornell, ...

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