Command Education Blog
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Work experience in college admissions
As soon as school is back in session after the holidays, many students begin to consider their options for summer. Elite college hopefuls should take care to craft a summer break agenda that will build upon the “hook” they have established during the school year. A...
Demonstrated interest in the age of the internet
A recent articlein the Wall Street Journalreiterated what many of us already know to be true—colleges and universities commonly track what prospective students are up to online. But the article shed light on a specific practice that fewer of us were previously...
Why it’s never too early to become a good writer
It can be tempting to think that you should only worry about getting better at the essay format once the mountain of supplementary essays loom during college application season. But if that’s the first time you start to realize how tenuous your grasp of basic...
How to become a person colleges want
As admit rates for elite colleges and universities across the country continue to plummet year after year, you might find yourself wondering (particularly if you’re a college-bound high school student yourself), what exactly it is that these schools are looking...
Are SAT IIs important to colleges?
For decades, the SAT General Test (now just referred to simply as the SAT) has ignited fear and anxiety in the hearts of college-bound high school students across the globe. There are countless news articles and op-eds about everything from the well-documented...
How do I write a letter of continued interest?
If things didn’t exactly go your way in the increasingly competitive EA/ED round (i.e. you got deferred), you still have options — and only one of them involves simply waiting around with your fingers crossed until March. At Command, we are proponents of a short...
What happens after I hit send on my application?
The moment is finally here. Your cursor hovers above that Submit button. You’ve double and triple checked, you’ve made sure everything’s ready, you’ve taken out that part in your resume where you wrote, “BLAH BLAH BLAH ADD DESCRIPTION LATER.” So you hit Submit, and...
Can I back out of Early Decision?
Hooray! You’ve been accepted into college! You applied a month and a half ago, and now you’re being forced to go to the school you were accepted into! Wait, what? I’m being forced to go? Maybe this wasn’t such a good decision after all… Early Decision can seem like...
Help! Early Decision results are almost here and I’m freaking out
We spend a lot of time in the Command office helping students prep applications to America’s top colleges and universities. But once the “submit” button has been pressed, we also spend quite a bit of time coaching students through the inevitable highs and lows of...
