QUANTUM PREP INSIGHTS

Have you ever wondered how YouTube recommends you videos, or how, after one online purchase, you begin seeing advertisements featuring similar products in your social media? It’s well-known that social media companies collect user data to know our history and past preferences, but precisely what they do with the data to predict our moves or inform our purchase and viewing choices goes beyond mere data collection and analysis.  Here is a program for you.  Established in 2011 by Rajendra and

College is a time of massive academic and personal growth for most students. Goals and interests can change, and sometimes, students can realize that the college where they started a degree isn’t meeting their needs. That’s where the college transfer process can come into play. But the transfer process can be competitive, and there are several factors that hopeful applicants need to be conscious of before they apply. Here are the things you need to know when deciding whether a

What are the easier ways to get in? After knowing the major “uncontrollable” factors that eliminate a student’s chance to gain entry into the Ivy League, our students and parents would naturally ask, “So are you saying it is nearly impossible to get into these Ivy League schools?”  No! If so, we’d be out of a job. Given our students and parents normally cannot afford to donate buildings or billion-dollar foundations to the university, there are a few alternative pathways

What Makes the Ivy League Universities So Hard to Get Into?  During every admissions season, one of the most common questions we get from our students and parents is “How did student X get into this and that Ivy League school, while the other student with the perfect GPA and test scores didn’t?”  The truth is we don’t know. And we may never know how that student got in unless we were actually the ones who worked with the student.

Letters of recommendations can be a very nerve-wracking part of the application process since you are unlikely to ever see exactly what is in the letter. Our students fret over which teachers to ask and what they can do to help make the letters of recommendation look better.  Types of Letters of Recommendation 1. Teachers’ Recommendation  For most private US college applications, students are required to ask one or two teachers for a recommendation letter. The most common question we

University rankings dominate the academic landscape now. Media outlets compete to be the first to report on each annual update, and every university prominently displays their top-ranked programs on billboard ads and their own webpages. Different ranking systems also compete for eyes, claiming their own methodologies to be the most accurate and the most up-to-date look into the top universities. So it’s understandable that rankings have become an easy shorthand for students, parents, and even university administrators to compare different