Want to get a head start on your college essays and applications? Magellan College Counseling will offer college application and essay workshops for local students in June, August, October and November. For current Magellan clients, these college application workshops are FREE! Dates and locations for the June and August dates are below. For everyone else, … Read more
There are more than 2,200 four-year colleges out there and you probably don’t have enough time to visit all of them! We visit colleges all the time – we’ve visited hundreds, in fact – and we still won’t be able to see them all! So at some point, you’re going to have to rely … Read more
READ. Read five books. Read five books that are NOT required for school. Read about history, or math, or culture, or something you don’t know about. Read a classic, a true crime novel, or a light summer romance. It doesn’t have to be a 1,000 page tome that will put you to sleep. Just read. … Read more
High school rising seniors – this is it – your final summer before the college application madness begins this fall! You should do these five things this summer: 5. Research colleges. Make your list bigger before you make it smaller. You just watched your senior friends get rejection letters, so you know how much that … Read more
“Will my kid get into a good college?” The question we are most frequently asked by parents is, “Will Johnny get into a good school?” Our answer is YES. But today’s college admissions landscape has changed. It’s an entirely different world than it was when you and I applied to college, and knowing the landscape … Read more
You may have noticed that one of the data points we presented in our May newsletter was that our clients were admitted to 175 different colleges. Why is this number relevant or important? It illustrates that our clients apply to a broad spectrum of colleges, because we personalize each client’s search to find colleges that … Read more
We asked some parents whose children have just finalized their college choice to share some nuggets of advice – things they wish they had known a year ago, as their kids were narrowing down their college lists and beginning the application process. Some of these parents’ children worked with us, but some did not. We … Read more
Who knew that fashion and engineering could be combined? Introducing Functional Design. It’s a “design process that begins with empathy,” says University of Delaware researcher Martha Hall, who has training in both fashion design and engineering. Hall directs a research lab in which undergraduates use technology to design medical devices with a fashionable twist – … Read more
Quick note: this post has been updated as of spring, 2019. Have you ever gone onto Yelp to look at a restaurant’s reviews? Ever run into this weird situation where the same restaurant has some people who LOVE it, give it 5 stars and rave about the food and the service….and yet that same restaurant … Read more
We know you don’t believe us. You’ve come to our presentations, and we’ve met privately at your home. You’ve heard us say it multiple times: that Harvard rejects 80% of the valedictorians who apply each year; that Stanford rejects 70% of the applicants with perfect SAT and ACT scores. That Yale could fill its class … Read more