At Ivy-Way, we often educate parents: your child doesn’t need to participate in a dozen competitions, do internships, conduct academic research, or join VEX or iGEM to get into top universities. Our student Howard, advised by Ivy-Way’s top counselor Dr. R.J., is yet another success story without these unnecessary add-ons.
2025 John Locke Essay Competition Prompts Now Available!
We’ve written about the John Locke Institute Essay Competition (JLIEC) before, discussing the basics of the competition, and how it can improve your chances of college admissions, and shared the success of Ivy-Way students shortlisted for the Junior and regular Essay Competition. In general, the goal of the JLIEC is to encourage “independent thought, depth of knowledge, clear reasoning, critical analysis and persuasive style.”
Free Online Internship and Research Program: 10 Reasons to Take Advantage of EnergyMag’s Online Internship
High school students often hope to enhance their college applications through internship experiences, but most college consulting companies take advantage of this demand to make profits by overhyping internships that don’t really help yet are extremely costly. Today, we’re introducing an internship opportunity that truly helps with college applications: EnergyMag’s Online Internship. Whether you’re in the US or anywhere else in the world, this valuable internship can boost your application—and it’s completely free!
How To Stand Out On College Applications: A Powerful Framework for Increasing Your Impact and Getting Into a Top Tier College
It’s no secret that admissions to Ivy League Plus schools are hyper-competitive. One of the most common reasons that students are denied admission from selective colleges has nothing to do with a weakness or deficiency, academic otherwise. “It’s simply that there are… thousands of other strong students applying in a given year,” says Yale Admissions […]
UC Berkeley application requirement: How does Berkeley select students？
UC Berkeley is one of the schools in the University of California school system and often known as the “best” UC school. Tens of thousands of excellent students apply each year to become students at UC Berkeley, but only the selected few will get in. If you are interested in applying to UC Berkeley, you’ll need to know the requirements in the UC Berkeley application and methods Berkeley uses to select students.
University Admissions Results for 12 Taiwanese International Schools in 2024!
Every year, American universities gradually release admission results by the end of March. After organizing students’ admission statuses, international high schools and educational institutions typically unveil the list of admissions and share the joy with students and parents in April and May.
Which schools did Taiwanese international high school students get accepted to this year? We’ve compiled the admission lists for Taiwanese international schools and universities to share with everyone!
Ivy-Way Case Study: Chris’s Success Story
Photo Credit：University of College@Shutterstock Student Profile What We Did Results Chris’s Success Story Chris came to us at the end of the first semester of his junior year. He was near the top of his class academically with very good standardized test scores (95th percentile). He enjoyed economics most of all his subjects and had […]
How to Make a College List That’s Right For You
When you start applying to college, it makes a lot of sense to start with a list. But what schools should you put on that list? You might start by writing a list of schools you’ve heard of: Johns Hopkins, MIT, NYU, USC, and so on. Is this the best approach to building a list of schools? How do you make a college list that’s right for you?
10 個最好的線上化學課程
化學是 STEM 裡面很廣泛的學科，相信大家也知道這門科目非常難，這時候線上化學課程可以提供學生或待業人士更多專業知識。但是網路上提供相關課程的網站有很多，每門課程都有不同的主題、費用跟教學方式，要怎麼找到好的課程呢？
這篇文章整理出 10 個最好的線上化學課程，有些是免費，有些需要花一些錢，希望對你有幫助。
老師推薦信 (Letter of Recommendation)：完整攻略看這篇！
在申請美國大學時，一般都會需要兩到三封推薦信。你知道推薦信的意義是什麼嗎？推薦信的內容應該要包含哪些東西，才對你申請大學有加分的作用呢？
AP vs. IB：差別在哪，如何挑選？
AP（Advanced Placement，中文為高級進修） 和 IB（International Baccalaureate，中文為國際文憑）是美國及國際高中的兩套主要課程。在這篇文章中，我們將深入比較這兩套系統，並教學生如何知道哪套系統更合適。
5 Levels of Classes for High School Students to Truly Stand Out in Their Application
To stand out in college applications, students often take classes outside of school. However, what classes should you take? Here, we recommend 5 different levels of classes to stand out in your application.
What’s A Safety School
Coming up with a list of colleges can take longer than you expect. Many students end up with more colleges than they intended to because they received suggestions from not only teachers and counselors, but also parents, friends, and sometimes even others’ parents (especially in Asia :P). Though you can choose to not apply to reach/dream schools, one thing you must have is safety school, schools you’re almost guaranteed admissions. In this post, we will tell you how to find these schools and help you make that decision.
Top 25 Best Film Schools in America
Many of my students have thought about being a film major or minor in high school, usually following a film project at school or vlogging for a school event. If that sounds like you, here’s the latest list of Top 25 Film Schools according to Niche.com, and you can use it as the first step of your college search. Some schools are exclusively film schools, meaning they do not offer other undergraduate programs besides film-related disciplines, while some are colleges with an excellent film program.
Editing Your College Essay: 5 Hurdles and How to Clear Them
You’ve finally finished a draft of your college essay. You’ve mined your experiences in and out of school, brainstormed and organized your thoughts, and crafted it all into a compelling narrative. Now it’s time to get down to the business of editing your college essay. You need to refine your draft, smooth over the rough edges, and polish it so it can shine. But how do you do that?
13 Most Prestigious College Summer Programs for High School Students
上次我們分享了 25 堂值得參加、而且有大學學分的網課，也深度分析了為什麼 99.9% 在大學校園的暑期課是不值得參加的，這次我們來分享全美國含金量最高的 10 堂大學暑期課程及 2 個含金量非常高的暑期活動，並且在最後分析他們的共通點，學生才會知道如何分辨一個暑期課程的含金量是高還是低！
All Free and Official (AP Calculus AB) Exams and Practice Tests!
The only way to prepare for AP Calculus AB is to do a lot of practice tests. You should learn the lesson from choosing or writing the wrong answers and go back to review the unit. Think deeply about that you were being careless or there is room for improvement in understanding the concepts. When you realize the problems, you are not far away from success.
To make sure student’s practice is effective, we sort out high-quality practice tests for you. Without further ado, let’s get started!
5 Things to Do (And 2 Things Not to Do) After Submitting Your College Apps
You’ve finally finished all of your college applications. Months of writing, rewriting, editing, and even more rewriting later, you’re finally free from all this stress. Congratulations! So what should you do (and not do) between now and mid-March, when all the decisions come out?
Tips on UC Application Essay Prompts (Part II)
Previously, we looked at 4 of the 8 UC essay prompts and discussed how you may go about writing them. For those who plan to apply to any of the 9 UC campuses, we will move on to the next 4 prompts and provide a general direction for you to follow as you compose your first draft.
Tips on UC Application Essay Prompts (Part I)
The University of California has 9 campuses that offer undergraduate admissions. For those who plan to apply to any of the 9 schools, you would only need to fill out the UC Application once and check the corresponding campus boxes at the end. Recently, UC has changed its essay prompts, now asking applicants to submit four 350-word essays as opposed to its previous two (1000 words total). Let’s dive into these prompts and look at the crucial points you must touch on and elaborate before submitting your final draft.
