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Make it a summer!

Author By Rick Clark
Publication date May 4, 2016
Categories: Campus Tour, Essays, Georgia Tech, Junior, Managing Stress, Parents, Prospective Student, Questions, Resources, Senior, Time Management

In the world of college admission, March and April are a busy time as campuses host prospective underclassmen, admitted seniors, and their families. Those heavy visit months come right on the heels of an isolated and compressed winter hibernation (also known as application reading season). And that period was immediately preceded by a fall of heavy recruitment […]

Ice Cream is the answer!

Author By Rick Clark
Publication date April 24, 2016
Categories: Admission Process, Application Advice, College Decision, Georgia Tech, Motivation, Parents, Senior

If you’ve been reading much surrounding the world of college admission this year, you’ve heard about the report out of Harvard called Turning the Tide. In this report, there is a call for colleges to attempt to minimize the stress in the process by not putting as much emphasis on test scores, redefining achievement and […]

The Waitlist…yea, you know. Part 3.

Author By Rick Clark
Publication date March 23, 2016
Categories: Admission Process, Deposit, Georgia Tech, Parents, Questions, Resources, Senior, Waitlist

Good news, bad news. Good news is my editor just had a baby. That means the filter is off and you’re going to get an even more concentrated dose of transparency. Bad news is my editor just had a baby. That means the clean sections, readability, and schedule of these blog entries is going to […]

The Waitlist Sucks (part 2 of 3)

Author By Rick Clark
Publication date March 21, 2016
Categories: Admission Process, Georgia Tech, Parents, Questions, Resources, Senior, Waitlist

The Student Experience Again, I officially apologize that we on the college side are not smart enough to hit our targets dead on right out of the gate. As we established earlier, if we could do that, there would be no waitlists, anywhere! Waitlists suck for students for several reasons, but here are a couple […]

The Waitlist Sucks (part 1 of 3)

Author By Rick Clark
Publication date March 14, 2016
Categories: Admission Process, Deny, Georgia Tech, Parents, Resources, Senior, Waitlist

There’s just no easy way to say it. There’s no funny intro or creative analogy. And frankly, it sucks for everyone. To understand the student experience (which we’ll delve into next week), you first have to understand the college’s perspective. The Admission Experience The waitlist is a reminder that I’m not very smart. If I […]