Universities Today

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  Harvard University

  Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university. Named after John Harvard, its first benefactor, it has been viewed as one of the most prestigious universities in the US as well as in the world. With more than 20,000 students in its Main, Medical and Allston campuses, it is the first corporation that was […]

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  Brigham Young University

  Brigham Young University is the third largest private university and the largest religious university in the United States. It has over 34,000 students and most of them are undergraduates, thought there are a small number of graduate students. Virtually all of the students attending the university are members of the Church of Latter Day Saints. […]

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  Yale University

  Yale University is a private Ivy League university. It is one of the best higher education institutions in the world where a large number of great people studied and graduated from here such as Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Noah Webster, and so on. With a history of more than 300 […]

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  Brown University

  Brown University is a private university and an independent Ivy League institution with undergraduate and graduate programs. As the seventh oldest higher education institution in the US, Brown University has around six thousand undergraduates, two thousand graduate students, four hundred medical school students from all the 50 states and over one hundred countries in the […]

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  Stanford University

  Stanford University is a prominent private research university in the United States. With nearly 2,000 academic staff, it accepts about 7,000 undergraduates and more than 8,000 postgraduate students coming from all over the world. The university was founded in 1891 by Leland Stanford and his wife Jane Lathrop Stanford in honor of their son, Leland […]

What Matters Most?

Letters of Recommendation, Essays, and Interview Report

Tips for Getting Recommendation Letters One of the most important parts of your college application is a part that you don’t write and over which you don’t really have any control. Selective colleges in the United States require that applicants include recommendation letters with their applications. In order to get recommendation letters, you must first […]

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Extracurricular Record

Get Involved in Extracurricular Activities that Interest You Selective colleges in the United States are interested in more than just the classes you took in high school and the scores that you got on your standardized tests. Looking at a lot of scores is valuable, but colleges want to get a better idea of who […]

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Standardized Test Scores

For Undergraduate Admissions: Taking the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) Most universities in the United States still require or at least strongly suggest that students applying for undergraduate admission take the SAT. The SAT is offered at different times throughout the year, but generally high school students will take the exam in either the spring of […]

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Academic Record

Your Academic Record is not just your G.P.A.! Selective colleges, particularly those in the United States, view many different aspects of an applicant’s academic record before coming to final decision on whether or not to accept that applicant. Colleges do not simply look at the applicant’s high school G.P.A. (Grade Point Average), since every high […]

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