Many students are celebrating Early Action acceptances right now, and they should – it was very hard to get in this year! But others are still waiting for that Regular Decision acceptance, perhaps from a dream school. This will be more problematic. Most selective colleges (those more likely to offer Early Decision rather than Early Action) received hundreds more applications than they are used to. Some of these applications came from students who aren’t really qualified, who

We have all heard the predictions – that many small liberal arts colleges (often in the Northeast, where there are so many more of them, and the student population is declining) will go under financially, especially in the wake of the pandemic. This means it’s crucial for parents to do their due diligence on the schools a student is applying to. The easiest way to do this research is simply to look up the Common Data Set, which each college is required (by law) to fill out ea