IvyGate’s Guide to Admissions: Part IV Somewhere between F. Scott Fitzgerald’s untimely death and that Tom Green movie about Harvard, some misconceptions of the awesome Ivy League education have spiraled out of control. First of all, the classes are not that difficult—s eriously. And i...

IvyGate’s Guide to Admissions: Part II Getting into an Ivy League school can be likened to winning the lottery: Pencil in a bunch of scantron bubbles, cross your fingers, pray to be struck by lightning. But instead of winning millions, you’re rolling the dice for the opportunity to impov...

IvyGate’s Guide to Admissions: Part I Lately, the cavalcade of admissions soothsayers seems to stretch from high school guidance counselor’s offices all the way to the bank—not to mention a stopover at the open palms of admissions coaches. Neither here nor there, the secret to getting ...