Creative College Connections

Each year someone covers downtown Leesburg in hearts on Valentine's Day, including our office! Happy Valentine's Day!

Sara is in Texas this week on college tours. The official tours open on Monday at Rice University, but she took advantage of her travel day to see Texas A&M, University of Houston, Texas Southern, and University of St. Thomas.

The Common App opens today! We are busy going through, finding new questions and features, and creating a guide for our students.

What an honor for Hannah to serve as a faculty member in the development of this training course for new educational consultants.

Professional Certificate: Core Concepts for Independent Educational Consultants - National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) Coming in early July! This introductory professional certificate course provides new and prospective independent educational consultants (IECs) with a foundational understanding of their role in the college search and application processes, tips and strategies to build and maintain a successful prac...

Sending off our seniors each year is bittersweet.
We’ll miss them AND we wish them well as they move on to new adventures.

Hannah is on the road. Guess the college.
Hints:
Medium size student population - large campus
Private
City
Competitive admission
Diverse student population
Known for economic mobility
Safe campus
Pre-Med powerhouse

For everyone who still looks the the Ivy League with rose-colored glasses...

Exclusive: Employers Are Souring On Ivy League Grads, While These 20 “New Ivies” Ascend You’re not imagining things: The Ivy League is forfeiting its standing as America’s producer of great talent. Here are the schools producing the hard-working high achievers that employers crave.

Harvard announces their return to requiring test scores for admission.

Harvard announces return to required testing — Harvard Gazette Leading researchers cite strong evidence that testing expands opportunity.

Virgina's Public Universities to eliminate Legacy Admission preferences. Virginia Tech made this decision independently last summer. Now the State is requiring the rest to do the same.

Virginia House votes to end legacy admissions in state universities Should the bill be signed by Gov. Youngkin, Virginia would join a small contingent of states that have effectively banned consideration of legacy status at its public colleges and universities.

UT Austin is following the developing trend among the ultra-selective universities of reinstating testing as a requirement for admission.

UT Austin Reinstates Standardized Test Scores in Admissions AUSTIN, Texas — After four years of test-optional admissions for undergraduate applications, The University of Texas at Austin will return to requiring