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Types of College Deadlines - What You Need to Know

If you’re in the throes of college admissions season, chances are you’ve heard of the various deadlines available for high school seniors to completely submit their application. These universal deadlines, mandated by each college, can be conveniently managed on universal application portals such as the Common Application or the Coalition Application. However, though of these application deadlines require that all supplemental components are submitted in conjunction with the application (transcript, essays, letters of recommendation, etc.), by leveraging the odds that are associated with each application deadline, we believe that we can leverage a student’s best foot forward in the competition

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Which Colleges Should I Apply to?

If your high school senior is navigating (read: streamlining) their college list, it’s important to take stock of what kinds of schools make the list. How many schools should your student apply to? What kind of schools? You may have heard some of the buzzwords floating around the college admissions industry (Safety, Target, and Reach), but we think it’s important to generate awareness of current application trends so you, too, can get ahead…with Whitehead.

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The Prettiest College Campuses, According to TripAdvisor

The college experience is more than purely academic. This 4-year adventure can offer lifelong friends and contacts and often, several adventures to check off the bucket list. Clearly, the experience at college is a transformational one. When families go on college tours (sometimes, all over the country), some initial reactions always have to do which how a campus looks and feels—a reaction that can’t be manufactured merely by scrolling on a school’s website or even on a virtual tour. Amidst the stress that all too often comes along with college applications and admissions, sometimes one of the most “fun” filters to factor into a campus tour experience is the ultimate curb appeal and location of the campus itself

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