A great college admissions counselor isn’t just a resource — they are a storyteller, a mentor for high-stakes admissions decisions, and a personal guide for an increasingly complex college application ...

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Collegewise is reaching higher one year after being acquired by Singapore-based A-Star Education Holdings, formerly ChangedEDU Holdings, for an undisclosed sum. The Irvine-based company, which calls ...

Over the past twenty years, acceptance rates at the nation's top institutions have steadily declined while application numbers have surged. SOURCE: Caleb Ren, Harvard College Class of 2021 With ...

Independent college admissions counselors have gotten a bad rap in recent years. First there was the Varsity Blues scandal in 2019, a multimillion-dollar bribery and test-cheating scheme masterminded ...

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Private college admissions counselor Kyra Tyler sits in her home in Forest Park, Illinois. Tyler, a former admission official at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., was hired to help the private ...

A high school student, meeting for the first time with a college admissions counselor, felt he’d messed up his chances at ever being accepted at a top university because of missteps in his early high ...