Midterms Study Tips

It’s midterm season (or finals, depending on how your school structures things). The new year means that many students are about to be tested on everything they’ve learned since school started in the fall. Whether you view midterms as an...

Information for Athletic Recruits

Guest post by Matthew Gnall The Athletic Advantage Forced to transparency by the SFFA lawsuit, Harvard revealed in a report from the University’s Office of Internal Research that recruited athletes with an academic rating of 1 or 2 (the two...

List of Our Students’ College Acceptances 2019

Allgeheny American Amherst Arizona State University Auburn Babson Bard Barnard Baylor Belmont Bloomsburg Boston College Boston University Bowdoin Brandeis Brown Bryant Bryn Mawr Bucknell Cabrini Cal Poly Carnegie Mellon Catholic Champlain Chapman Clark Clemson Colby College of Charleston Colgate Colorado...

Test Anxiety Conversation

Listen to Ivy Experience Director Jim Wismer and Academic Coach Gail Slogoff discuss test anxiety, including causes, symptoms, and strategies for students, families, and educators.      

State of Admissions 2019

‘The Most Competitive Admissions Cycle Ever’ – Again If you have read any articles on admissions statistics this month, you have probably read some variation on that sentence many times over. And it’s true – college admissions are getting tougher...

How to Handle College Decisions

Below is an email we sent to the families of our senior students, but its message is important for all families at any point in the college admissions process: We urge you to read this note. It is long, but...

7 Common Mistakes on the Common App

If you are applying to college, you will almost certainly be using the Common Application. Here is our list of the 7 most common mistakes we see students and families make in filling out the Common App with advice on...