ED/EA: Expert Next Steps If You Weren’t Accepted YET!

If you’re not accepted to your ED/EA dream college, what to do next? Let John Morganelli, former Cornell Director of Admissions, show you!

If you weren’t admitted to your Early Decision (ED) school, it’s essential to adjust strategically to maximize your chances for Regular Decision (RD) applications. We will go over a step-by-step approach that can help!

What We’ll Cover:

*Reevaluating Your School List
*Refining Your Application Narrative and Essays
*Strengthening or Adding New Achievements
*Requesting New Letters of Recommendation Wisely
*Addressing Any Weaknesses in Your Application
*Considering Your Prospective Major
*Staying Positive and Organized

Our Expert Panel:

John Moganelli developed a college admissions coaching program that helps students get into the most competitive US colleges and has been working as a leader in the private admissions consulting space for over 5 years. Prior to becoming a consultant, John was a Director of Admissions at Cornell University. He has held senior admissions leadership positions at: Cornell University, Lehigh University, and Moravian University. John is also the author of “Growing Ivy: How to Crack the Code on Elite College Admissions” (2021).

Justin Taylor has a Masters in dramatic literature from the Sorbonne (Paris) and an MFA in playwriting from Yale. For more than ten years, he has helped hundreds of students boost their scores as a test prep tutor (SAT/ACT, SAT/AP French) and boost their admissions prospects as a college application consultant. Yale, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Boston College, and NYU are some recent admits for happy students. He has taught writing at Yale University, Wesleyan University, the Sorbonne, in high schools and privately throughout New York City with all ages. While writing is his background, he enjoys math and scored 780 last time he took an SAT math section. He is also a professional meditation teacher and loves sharing meditation hacks to cruise through stress on test day (ask him about being the meditation teacher for Facebook). When Justin is not helping people with their educational dreams, he is working on his plays in NYC (he has written more than 20!)

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