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Washington Post: College rankings are leaving out the most important factor
Do prestige and selectivity equal great undergraduate teaching?
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Mark Moody
Oct 11 min read
Preview a College Kickstart Report
College Kickstart is a web-based platform that can help students, families and counselors in the stages of shaping and finalizing a...
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Mark Moody
Sep 243 min read
From NYT: "Careerism Is Ruining College"
"It’s called pre-professional pressure..."
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Mark Moody
Sep 122 min read
Perfect bottom-line essay insight from a Dean
Rick Clark of Georgia Tech is a source of lots of great college admission advice. In this piece for Grown & Flown, he cuts right to the...
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Mark Moody
Sep 121 min read
UC Admission Stats for 2024
College Kickstart has compiled and published the University of California system admit rates for 2024. At the link, you can break down...
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Mark Moody
Jul 284 min read
Test Usage and ACT & College Board Shenanigans, Summer '24 edition
You've probably heard about the handful of colleges that have reverted to requiring the SAT or ACT for admission. My friends at Compass...
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Mark Moody
May 17 min read
About Independent College Counselors, and About Me
How my 25 years of experience distinguish me in an unregulated profession.
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Mark Moody
Dec 4, 20231 min read
WaPo: "An error in the FAFSA could lower financial aid for college students"
Among the many changes to the FAFSA is an increase in the amount of income shielded from the formula that determines how much students...
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Mark Moody
Nov 20, 20232 min read
AI in College Admission News and Opinion Roundup
Since ChatGPT created a massive cultural paradigm shift last year, one of the hottest topics and biggest questions in college admission...
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Mark Moody
Nov 20, 20232 min read
Yes, still more commentary on US News Rankings...
If you scroll through my blog archives, you'll see plenty of articles and commentary I've shared about the deeply flawed US News College...
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Mark Moody
Oct 1, 20235 min read
National Conference 2023 in Baltimore: Big Takeaways and 3 College Visits
It's hard to explain the annual national conference of NACAC, the National Association for College Admission Counseling. Imagine 7,000...
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Mark Moody
Sep 26, 20231 min read
Local News: Cutting through college prep stress
The friendly folks behind Saratoga Today weekly and the seasonal Simply Saratoga magazine were kind enough to feature me in a profile in...
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Mark Moody
May 10, 20234 min read
Who reads your application to college? A series of insightful articles sheds light.
As the Fall 2023 entry admission cycle wraps up this spring, there has been a lot of attention given to the state of the admission...
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Mark Moody
Apr 19, 20233 min read
"Teens ask for a kinder college admissions process:" Can we listen and help them find a better way?
There is a genuine mental health crisis among our teens. This article from the LA Times points out some of the source of anxiety in their...
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Mark Moody
Apr 5, 20233 min read
College Board and Your Name: Enrollment VP Insight
Did you know that, for decades, one of the primary reasons that college brochures and emails find their way into the inboxes and...
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Mark Moody
Apr 3, 20232 min read
Independent College Counseling in the Upstate NY Capital District
I have some exciting news to share! As of July 2023, MSquared Counseling's home base will be in Saratoga Springs, New York. One of the...
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Mark Moody
Jan 14, 20233 min read
Tools for Data-Informed College Counseling
College counseling is an art, a science, and a human endeavor. It is influenced by a set of moving targets, networks of relationships,...
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Mark Moody
Oct 4, 20221 min read
NACAC Conference 2022
A couple of weeks ago, I joined over 6,000 of my admission profession friends and colleagues in my original hometown of Houston for the...
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Mark Moody
Jul 25, 20221 min read
HECA PDI 2022
It's been a busy summer as MSquared Counseling is taking off! In June, I traveled to Denver for the HECA Professional Development...
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