Every fall, I like to take the temperature of the application season. Now that we've made it to October 7th, I can report that…the kids are doing OK. In fact, my students have already submitted more than half of their applications, with the biggest deadline of the year still weeks away. Every year, I get asked about the trends I'm seeing in college admissions. The process changes every year, but here are 5 big things I think parents should know right now: Your RESUME matters

In over 10 years as a college counselor, I’ve seen countless shifts in college admissions. But there’s one trend that absolutely exploded this year: the waitlist. Colleges are no longer using the waitlist sparingly. Instead, the waitlist has become an active extension of the admissions cycle and, for the colleges, a strategic enrollment management tool. Being waitlisted is the college admissions equivalent of an emotionally unavailable situation-ship: they won't commit to you

I’ve talked with my students about AI in admissions MANY times. Right now, it is the wild, wild west – with few rules or guidelines. AI...