THE FINAL COUNTDOWN TO THE 2012 APPLICATION YEAR IS ON

As many of you prepare for the holidays, you may also be considering other colleges you may want to apply to before the January 15th deadline.  The most important thing to keep in mind as you apply is that you must be INFORMED about each school so that you are making solid decisions on your choices as you begin to narrow down the process.

Every year, we see our students come in with set goals of going to Harvard, Yale, Brown, USC, Stanford or UCLA.  It is possible that none of these schools are right for them,  and the admissions committees recognize it, leaving them out in the cold come admission time.

When we ask these students why they have chosen the schools they have, they have no specific reason. Unfortunately, today, Colleges want to know WHY you are applying— and how you are going to fit into the campus.  Those are very tough questions, especially if you know little about the schools you are applying to.

We are accepting a limited amount of students to our senior program at this time, but we are available for consultations.

Keep in mind that when you are looking at schools, choosing a college solely based on its overall US News and World Report ranking is often misleading. We know that US News has spent a lot of time devising a precise formula for what they believe are the most important factors on which to evaluate a school, but students often time can make very serious and expensive mistakes can occur if you are relying on this periodical alone.  International students need to be especially aware of this theory.

If you would like to see how the schools rank, check out the US News directory here.
(http://www.usnewsuniversitydirectory.com/graduate-schools/sciences/earth-sciences.aspx).