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Caroline Koppelman
Best Early Decision II (ED2) Schools 2024-2025

Hey, look, sometimes ED doesn’t work out the way we want it to, and we have to change strategies. If you just got rejected or deferred from your ED/EA option, we’d like to introduce you to our good friend, Early Decision 2. ED2 is just as binding as ED, and it signals to the school that you are serious about attending that school, and guess what? Schools like when you’re serious about them.

Caroline Koppelman
Why This College Essay Question Guide and ...

Why do you want to go to school here? If there’s one prompt you are certain to write more than once, it’s this one. This prompt comes in a few different flavors, but at the end of the day, they all want to know why their school is the perfect school for you and why you’re the perfect student for them. No pressure or anything.

Caroline Koppelman
Official Common App Essay Guide 2024-2025

We’ve spent the last few weeks breaking down the Common App essay prompt by prompt, and today we’re going to give you our ultimate guide to writing the Common App essay. There might be seven different prompts, but ultimately, all schools want the same thing from their applicants’ Common App essays: a story.

Caroline Koppelman
Rejected Early Decision from Columbia 2023

Getting a rejection in the Early Decision round is definitely not easy. But the good news is, it’s really just the start, and that one rejection has no bearing on how you’re going to do with other, similarly competitive schools. The thing about Early Decision is it comes alone and it comes first. It’s sometimes easier to tolerate a rejection when it’s preceded by several acceptance letters. College admissions are extraordinarily competitive these days and the Ivies are just more competitive than any other time or place in history. That’s it. It doesn’t get harder. And Columbia in particular has just a 4% acceptance rate! So, if you’ve been rejected in the Early Decision round, don’t despair. We have some advice about how you might go forward. (And don’t worry, it’s really not that much more work!)

Caroline Koppelman
Deferred by Harvard — Now What? (2023-24)

If you’ve been deferred by Harvard, you are not alone. Harvard is notorious at this point for deferring an enormous percentage of early admission applicants. While most elite colleges with early admissions programs, like early decision and early action, only defer students they are seriously considering for the next freshman class, Harvard has released on early admission suggest that they take a very different approach.

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10 Best Undergraduate Schools for Entrepreneurship

Universities are creating more opportunities for students to get excited about entrepreneurship both in and outside of the classroom. While most entrepreneurship programs are a part of business schools, many universities offer entrepreneurship classes and minors to non-business students, making it one of the most interdisciplinary business tracks there is. If you love entrepreneurship it’s worth it to check out these ten top programs:

10 Best Undergraduate Schools for Management

Getting a degree in management opens some exciting doors in the business world. If your dream is to be an executive, management is probably the degree for you. While many people go back to school for an MBA in management, many top schools also offer it to undergrads. Management majors learn a broad set of business, finance, and marketing skills as well as about economics and the practical leadership skills it takes to help run an organization. If this sounds like what you want to learn as an undergrad, we highly suggest you look into these ten top programs:

10 Best Undergraduate Schools for Operations and Information Systems

So you love Operations and Information Systems? First off, impressive. We don’t meet a ton of teens who know they want to get into this field before they take college courses in it. OIS is an exciting and honestly pretty new field that combines business and technology to help businesses run better and more efficiently. And as tech and business become more interconnected than ever before, this degree is only going to become more valuable to those both interested in the tech and business sectors. If you already know that OIS is for you or even if you are just curious, it pays to check out these schools’ programs.

Small Liberal Arts Colleges with Business Majors or Programs

Business is an incredibly popular field of interest for college students. An undergraduate degree in business provides a general understanding of the business world, but most schools offer more specialized majors such as accounting, finance, business administration, marketing, entrepreneurship, and international business.  

The Best Undergraduate Business Schools

We talk to a lot of clients who say they want to major in business. And while we fully support that, we encourage them (and those reading this blog post) to dig a lot deeper. Saying that you want to major in business is kind of like saying you want to read a book. There’s a million different directions you can go in. For that reason, we’ve chosen to highlight undergraduate business schools that offer a wide array of programs and opportunities. This list is not exhaustive, and we encourage you to do your own research as well.