Learn how legacies, donors, VIPs, athletes and other categories boost admissions chances at the Ivy League and other elite colleges.
Recently, elite colleges like Harvard, Yale, Brown, and Dartmouth have reinstated SAT and ACT requirements. That, combined with last year's overturning of Affirmative Action, has led to scrutiny of some admissions boosters. Join Adam Nguyen -- a Harvard Law and Columbia grad, former reader in Columbia's Office of Admissions, and Ivy Link's Founder -- who will explain the role of preferences in college admissions pre- and post-Affirmative Action and strategies to increase the odds of admissions.
Adam, who has helped hundreds of students gain admissions to the Ivy League, Stanford, MIT, and other top colleges, will delve into the following:
Why colleges are reinstating testing requirements now, and how that will impact admissions moving forward
How the end of Affirmative Action, as well as legacy scrutiny, affects the upcoming application cycles
What really happens in the admissions offices of elite colleges pre- and post-Affirmative Action
Different types of legacy preferences at elite colleges
Other boosters available to students, such as donor status and athletes
What to do if your student doesn't qualify for any “traditional” boosters
The interactive workshop includes Q&A. Attendees are encouraged to submit their questions beforehand.
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“I can tell you that a number of things on the application are ‘optional,’ but to get into the Ivy League and other elite colleges, an applicant has to go above and beyond the minimum requirements,” he said.”
“[Nguyen] also predicted that pressure would grow against legacy admissions, notably with a less favourable view by recruiters of excellence in elite, expensive sports such as lacrosse, squash, fencing, skiing and sailing. He is already advising families with students in the sixth or seventh grade to focus on other activities to stand out.”
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Adam Nguyen, the founder of Ivy Link, has over two decades of experience helping students at all levels in admissions, test preparation and academic coaching. He has served as an academic advisor at Harvard and a reader of applications and interviewer in Columbia’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions. He is a member of the U.S. National Association for College Admission Counseling and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from Columbia and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. Adam is a frequent speaker and commentator on admissions, standardized testing and other education issues, appearing on Bloomberg TV and at Columbia University, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and the Parents League of New York.
