When writing a recommendation, a recommender should do more than confirm that a student has talent. For an admission office, talent is pretty easy to identify, and something that every student ...

The high school counselor’s letter of recommendation is an art form, Jim Jump writes. I have always urged high school seniors and their parents to live in the moment, to enjoy the senior year and even ...

Earlier this month, the Washington Post reported that in 2014 Tucker and Susie Carlson allegedly asked their then-neighbor Hunter Biden to write a letter of recommendation for their son, who was ...

Admission notifications to EDII applicants are made in February, earlier than Regular Decision notifications. Regular Decision (RD) has a deadline of January 7. It is non-binding and requires that ...

Even for the highest-achieving first-generation students, counselors were less likely to include details about things like ...

Make sure your letter-writers have finished your recommendation letters as well. Once all your documents are in order, there’s no need to keep waiting—submit those applications. Your Checklist ...

Current high school juniors will soon apply to college, and the lingering impact of COVID-19 may make it difficult to stand out in the admissions process. A good recommendation letter goes a long w… ...

A letter of recommendation (LOR) is a way for employers or admissions to learn about you from an outside perspective, such as from a teacher, coach, boss, ...

I was amazed by how many college admission folks made disparaging remarks about parent references. It was as if I could almost seeing [sic] them rolling their eyes in cyberspace. The general ...