CollegeWeekLive Transfer Day
Watch live video presentations from David Montesano of College Match, Inc. on how to improve your transfer admission chances–especially if you are on a wait list. Here’s the video

On Thursday February 2nd @ 4pm PST is a free & online event to help community college students and current four-year college students transfer to another four-year institution to complete their bachelor’s degree.

Chat live with admission reps, including David Montesano of College Match, Inc., from transfer offices of 60+ colleges and universities.

Watch live video presentations from experts on topics like transfer admissions, financial aid, and scholarships. Plus, login to be eligible to win a $1,000 Scholarship!

Visit: http://bit.ly/zCmMjx

Taken from Kristina Dell’s Daily Beast/Newsweek article on 4/4/11

Schools like to say geography doesn’t matter, but if you’re from a technology haven like Seattle, Palo Alto, or San Jose, you just might have a subtle advantage. “Good high schools in tech hubs are getting in more kids to top schools than they used to,” says Montesano of College Match, who cites liberal arts feeder schools like Lakeside School in Seattle and Katharine Branson School in Marin County as having that edge. Why the leg up? “It’s nothing more than colleges wanting kids whose families are tech people, especially if they work for blue-chip tech firms,” he says. “Google is the future, and they want kids from those families.”

Taken from Kristina Dell’s Daily Beast/Newsweek article on 4/4/11

OMG! More high school students this year are interested in writing and want to choose schools where they can do more of it, says Montesano. “We have more clients than ever who want to build up creative-writing portfolios,” he says, “so they’re looking at colleges like Sarah Lawrence for creative writing and Vassar and Occidental for screenwriting.” Many have spent the summer between their sophomore and junior years at writing workshops to hone their skills.
Apparently, the increased interest in writing has resulted in better college essays, at least for some schools. “I do think the writing skills have improved,” says Miller of Brown. “Or maybe it’s the editing skills,” he jokes.

Taken from Kristina Dell’s Daily Beast/Newsweek article on 4/4/11

Sure, almost any student would love to gain admission to an Ivy right off the bat, but many have become next to impossible to get into. “The super-reach schools are completely out of reach,” says Montesano of College Match. “You’re looking at a 6 percent admission rate for Harvard.”
So more families have started to take a long-term approach to the college admissions process. For many, the endgame isn’t college; it’s graduate school. Some are considering sending their kids to top-notch state schools to save tens of thousands of dollars with the idea that Stanford or Yale will make a great graduate school. Others are searching for programs that allow a student to go to school for six years and gain a B.A. plus a J.D. to save a year of time and tuition. Whitman, Hamilton, Occidental, and Bowdoin have such programs.