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Harvey Mudd College

TOP STEM SCHOOL Type: College Size:  Small (800 Undergraduate); Honors College: N/A Affiliations: Claremont College Consortium (Pomona College, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, Scripps) Student Body: Undergraduate  (851 Students) Testing: SAT Reading: 670-760; Math: 730-800; …

10th - Sophomore Planning / 11th - Junior Planning / ACT / SAT / SAT Subject Tests / Testing

The Joys and Sorrows of June ACTs/SATs & SAT Subject Tests

Many of you are taking the SAT or the SAT Subject Tests today. For the rest of you who haven’t taken subject tests, if you want to go out of …

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Reed College

Type: College Size:  Small (1,430 Undergraduate; 23 Graduate); Style: Gold Standard School/Mini-Ivy Honors College: N/A Affiliations: Student Body: Undergraduate  (1453 Students) Testing: SAT: 1930-2210;  ACT: 29-33  (SAT/ACT Optional School) Admissions: Applied: 5,396; Accepted: 1888 …

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Top Undergrad Schools for Ph.Ds in Science & Engineering

What is one of the measures of the quality of an undergraduate education at a college? How many people go on to achieve the highest (terminal) degrees. There’s a reason.

11th - Junior Planning / 12th - Senior Planning / Admissions / Auditions & Lessons / Build Your Resume / College Visits / Music / Musician - Professional

A Template for Requesting a Lesson

Chances are better than average that you WILL NOT get into most good music schools on an audition alone. We’ve had too many students who have been surprised by that “secret” …

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Summer Programs – U.S. Department of State

  Do you like to travel? Do you like foreign languages? Food? Culture?  Perhaps a career as a diplomat is for you!  The way to “audition” that option is to …

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Super-Scoring on Standardized Tests like ACT/SAT

Faster than a speeding bullet, you can create trouble for yourself with standardized tests like the SAT or the ACT. When you sign up for the tests with the College …

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Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

Type: College Size:  Very Small (1,000) Style: Hands On/Engaged Affiliations:  N/A Honors College: N/A Student Body: Undergraduate: 950; Graduate: 50 Testing: SAT:1460-2360/ACT: 28-35 Admissions:  30 in Architecture, 65 in Art and 125-145 in Engineering Students …

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Do You Know the Sophomore Secret?

  Colleges get a lot of applications these days. Far more than they used to. Some schools are accepting 7,000 students on 44,000+ applications!  Most of the time, as they whittle …

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Bates College

GOLD STANDARD SCHOOL / MINI IVY Type: College Size:  Small (1,791 Undergraduate); Style: Liberal Arts with Thesis/Capstone Honors College: N/A Affiliations: Student Body: Undergraduate  (1773 Students) Testing: Test Optional  Admissions: 21.6% (Class Size 517); Early …

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