Anyone who works in college counseling has gotten a question about what “looks good” on college applications; if my child takes up fencing at twelve or gives up piano for the oboe would it make them stand out to selective colleges? When I am asked, I usually respond with “it’s possible, but if it didn’t
In a normal year, guessing about whether colleges will offer admission to students on their waitlists (and how many) is a shot in the dark. With covid-19, waitlists are even more unpredictable. We are living in unprecedented times, which means we can’t easily look to history to give us a sense of what will happen
What are waitlists? Every year, almost every college creates a waitlist, a sort of admission purgatory. Students offered to join a waitlist are not accepted but may be accepted later into the spring or summer should they choose to stay on it. Why do colleges have a pool of students who are neither in nor
