Students need to stand out in the competitive admissions landscape. FLEX College Prep is a team of the best strategists in the industry. Get clarity and support in your college application process. Get into your dream school.
Students need to stand out in the competitive admissions landscape. FLEX College Prep is a team of the best strategists in the industry. Get clarity and support in your college application process. Get into your dream school.
Colleges across the nation have begun to publicize early acceptance results for the high school Class of 2020, and, for the first time in years, these results provide an optimistic outlook for the “normal” student. While all the data is not in yet, we already can see...
Juniors. Parents of juniors. It’s time to talk about college applications. Many of you may feel that applications deadlines are still in the distant future–a thing to be tackled when the insanity of junior year schedules (School tests! Standardized tests!...
This September, the UCs held its annual UC High School Counselor Conference to inform participants of the latest admissions news, changes, and policies. The three FLEX counselors who attended this event were made aware of some subtle but significant changes to UC...
The college admissions process has become increasingly competitive. It seems that students these days must excel in all areas: they must be straight-A students, stellar test-takers and motivated leaders in the community. Now this picture isn’t entirely factual. There...
What can we learn from colleges’ acceptance rates?What does a college’s admission rate really mean? Why does it matter if you apply early or regular decision?Let’s take for instance the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) during this past application season. While its...
Let’s turn now to a very different case study. Debbie was an average happy-go-lucky teenager at La Cañada High School. She was not particularly academically inclined and didn’t really like school; she was much more enthusiastic about surfing the Internet and texting...
