Listen to “Predicting Yield in 2021 – Rick Clark” on Spreaker. “$10 says he shorts it.” Just one of the countless quotable lines in the must– watch classic, Oceans 11. After assembling the perfect crew, stealing a massive explosive device, falsifying identities, and recreating identical vaults, the heist of three Las Vegas’ casinos comes down to the ability of Yen (Shaobo Qin) to pull off a 10-foot backflip and land squarely on top of […]
Waiting Well in Uncertainty
This week we welcome Senior Admission Counselor Samantha Rose-Sinclair to the blog. Welcome back, Sammy! Listen to “Waiting Well For Decisions-Sammy Rose-Sinclair” on Spreaker. If you applied to colleges for regular decision, it’s been a few long weeks now that you’ve been waiting on your decision. For the many Early Action applicants deferred from schools this […]
Nuance in the Numbers
Listen to “Nuance in the Numbers (Are All Admit Rates Created Equal?) – Rick Clark” on Spreaker. One of my 2021 resolutions is to run, ride, hike, walk, or swim over 2021 miles this year. This means I am tracking everything, because to meet that goal it will require averaging about 5.5 miles a day. In order to do this, I use […]
College Admission Word Association
Listen to “College Word Association – Rick Clark” on Spreaker. “It’s 7:20! Why are you still asleep?!” I say flipping on the lights and opening the blinds. “My alarm didn’t go off,” mumbled my daughter from under three sheets and four stuffed animals. “What?! I can see your clock says, ‘snooze!’” “I didn’t do that…” “Whatever! […]
Same Kind of Different
Listen to “Episode 30: Same Kind of Different (Preparing For Decisions) – Rick Clark” on Spreaker. This Saturday we will release Early Action II admission decisions. Later today our team will gather online (I guess that’s a thing) to walk through the number and percentage of students in each admission decision category (admit, defer, deny), their basic academic and […]