To me, the secret about elite universities — or at least the fact that they prefer not to publicize overtly — is that the admissions game...

There is one — and only one — thing that a student must include in his or her main college admissions essay. You MUST provide a sense of...

There is no shortage of evidence that large numbers of students from certain private and public high school end up at elite universities....

For anyone interested in attending Harvard — or any other elite university — the question of developing a so-called spike is a good one....

The role of the college admissions essays is to personalize an applicant who might otherwise be defined solely by grades and scores....

Dartmouth, like all elite colleges, has qualities which are favored in the admissions process. Of the 2,092 students who were offered...

It is hard to look at Aaron, Nick, Nigel and Zach Wade -- all four accepted to both Yale and Harvard -- and see anything other than a...

"Cannon fodder" is the phrase that Amherst-admissions-officer-turned-college-counselor Willard Dix uses to describe the masses of high...

The Common Application essay fills college-bound students with dread. High stakes mean that students are eager, or even desperate, to get...

Back in the day, David Letterman took note of Kwasi Enin, a high school student who gained national notoriety when he was accepted at all...