Why Command Education

There’s one thing teachers, guidance counselors, admissions officers, parents, and students can all agree on: the college admissions landscape is complicated and has changed a lot over the past several years. What used to be enough to all but guarantee one’s acceptance to Harvard now reads as standard amidst the impressive applications of elite college hopefuls. This discrepancy between what was and what is causing a lot of intergenerational tension and stress. Every day there are high school seniors who would rather write a dozen Common App essays than hear their parents chide them about the process one more time, and parents who are nearly at their wits’ end trying to cajole their children into more extracurriculars, volunteering, extra tutoring sessions, and other gimmicks in the never-ending struggle to set themselves apart from their peers.