College Acceptance: Saying Yes or No to a College

In an ideal world, you'll have started your college search early, created a list with a good mix of favorite and safety schools, and gotten a college acceptance...

A hook, in admission parlance, is any advantage that makes you attractive to a particular college. This varies from school to school and from year to year. You may...

Colleges aren't terribly picky about how you spend your down time, as long as you're doing something meaningful. They won't know if you spend hours upon hours playing...

Waitlisted. Application deferred. You put in your college application and that's the response you got! Even after you spent hours filling out forms and laboring...

Now that the hard work of filling out applications and writing essays is over, you may think all that's left to do is to wait anxiously for an admission decision...

Test scores are strategically listed after your transcripts. While that may mean that they're less important than your grades, at schools which require them, they're...

Congratulations! After hours spent trolling the Web, poring over books and catalogs, taking tests, visiting campuses, filling out stacks of paperwork, writing and...

Your college acceptance relies on many parts of your application, and there are three items that typically are not the main factors, but can still influence the...

When the admission committee at a college is meeting, what do you think you might hear during the process of making an admission decision? College acceptance:...

This may come as a surprise, but the college acceptance process doesn't include tossing applications down the stairwell and accepting those students whose folders...

This may come as a surprise, but the college acceptance process doesn't include tossing applications down the stairwell and accepting those students whose folders...

If you're like a lot of people, you probably believe that getting into a good college requires you to be the "model" candidate. Maybe you wrote it all down and somewhere,...

By the time March and April arrive, you're hopefully getting what you asked for -- multiple college admission letters. This is the ideal time to re-visit campuses...

In evaluating your application, your high school transcript is almost always the most important ingredient. (Keep in mind that there are exceptions to this rule,...

Read actual questions from students about college acceptance and see answers and advice from college planning and admissions experts