Estrela Consulting Blog

With more than 4,000 public, private, and for-profit colleges and universities in the United States, searching for the “right college” can be time-consuming, stressful, and often chaotic. If you’re a student who happens to learn differently, this task can seem downright overwhelming. Yet, it actually can be a very rewarding experience. Remember, the college search process is a journey of ...

Demonstrated interest -- the term that describes how interested a student appears to be in a particular college -- is one of those mystery components in the application process. When it comes to a college making your admission decision, does your interest in attending matter or not? The answer to this question, as with most questions regarding the application process, is “it depends.”

College application season is upon us and high school seniors everywhere are ready to do what they once thought was light years away: hitting that “submit” button before their college application deadlines have arrived. Before jumping ahead to the waiting game, let’s back up to the present and talk about what comes next.

Perhaps your favorite gift last holiday season was a label maker (mine was!) or maybe you are a self-proclaimed World Class Procrastinator. Regardless of where you fall on the personal organization continuum, the college application process is comprised of many types of deadlines for each college or university. All too often, one school’s application deadline happens on the same day (or during ...

International Student Orientation. Working in university admissions, this was always one of my favorite days of the academic year. The auditorium would buzz with anticipation as excited conversations in dozens of languages would reverberate off the walls. The students journeyed from every corner of the globe, and would arrive ready to start their college experience just like any other ...