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IvyWise Dr. Kat's List: Five Colleges Where You Can Express Your Poetic Voice

Dr. Kat’s List: 5 Colleges Where You Can Express Your Poetic Voice

Whether you love Emily Dickinson’s slanted rhyme, Allen Ginsberg’s beats, or Langston Hughes’ Renaissance jazz, you have many college options to study this literary art form. If you’d like to pursue your passion for poetry in college — be it writing, history, analysis, or performance — the expert counselors at IvyWise have identified five great schools where you can find poetic inspiration.

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IvyWise Finding Community Service Opportunities that Match Your Interests

17 Community Service Ideas for High School Students

Students tend to have a one-dimensional view of what community service entails. If they’re not tutoring younger students or serving meals at a local homeless shelter, what other community service is there? In reality, high school students can find various ways to make an impact — the possibilities are endless! 

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IvyWise Understanding the Facts About Deferrals

Understanding the Facts About Deferrals

For students expecting early decisions, it’s easy to imagine how they’ll react to their admissions outcomes — whether it’s an acceptance or a rejection. But there’s another possibility on the table that many students forget to prepare for: a deferral.

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IvyWise How the Admissions Committee Review Process Works

Admissions Committee: The Review Process

Gone are the days of paper applications, when admissions offices had stacks of files in cabinets and had to go through them all by hand. In today’s environment, your application is completed, uploaded, and read online. So, when all the required components are submitted, how does your application navigate through the admissions process in the digital age? What materials are filtered by computers, and where does the difficult decision making happen?

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Admission Statistics

The admissions process, while time-consuming and complex, is also fun and fascinating. Below, we’ve included some important college admissions statistics, facts, and figures that will help you understand the trends in admission over the past decade.

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