Club Z! Tutoring of North Raleigh, proudly serving families in North Raleigh, including Brier Creek, Leesville and Falls of Neuse, is celebrating its official grand opening on Friday, October 27th at 12:00 noon, with a Facebook Live Grand Opening event. Local families are encouraged to like and follow the newest Club Z! office on Facebook […]
Read More »By Richard D. Kahlenberg (NBC News). As freshmen flood college campuses across the U.S. this year, Harvard University has trumpeted the fact that its incoming first-year class of 2021 is majority non-white. But it left something out. In recent years, about as many Harvard students have come from the top 1 percent of families by […]
Read More »By Scott Jaschik (Inside Higher Ed.). The college counselor couldn’t help but be impressed with the draft application essay. It had a solid theme and related to the student’s academic interests. The writing was flawless. But the counselor, who described the situation on condition of anonymity, said that she just didn’t think her student could […]
Read More »By Amanda Patrick (TAPinto). Demonstrated Interest is a term colleges use to describe how much a student is interested in attending their school. It encompasses every touch point that a student has with a specific college. Touch points can include visiting a school, emailing an admissions officer, sending a thank you note after an […]
Read More »By Kevin Mahnken (74Million.org). Fifty-five percent of college admissions directors said in a recent poll that they were “very concerned” about hitting enrollment targets for 2017–18, up from just 31 percent in 2015. All told, 85 percent voiced at least some doubt about meeting their goals for the year, yet more evidence of a […]
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