Recently I met with a new client. The family contacted me after their child had been wait listed or received a rejection letter from every school they applied to for middle school admission. They requested a meeting with me to help them figure out where they went wrong and what they could do a second time around to improve their chances of admission.
It was clear to me after reviewing the child’s ISEE scores, the parent and student applications and essays, and the student’s transcripts where they had gone wrong. The student did very little to prepare for the test, and this was reflected in the scores. The applications and essays were lackluster, nothing stood out, and there were some clear no/nos in some of what was said.
The family asked me for references of clients I had worked with in the past who were in their current situation. I was able to come up with at least a half a dozen families who I had worked with in the past several years who had made similar mistakes (student was not prepared for the test, applications were so/so and there were some areas of the student’s application that need to be strengthened). In every case the students I worked with had much better results the second time around, and all of them are currently attending a top private school (some of them are even attending the school that had rejected them the first time they applied).
If a student is reapplying to the same school a second time, there needs to be a big change in their application in order for the school to change their mind and decide to accept the student. This is where test preparation and admission consulting make a big difference in changing the outcome for these students.
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”. – Albert Einstein
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