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Audrey Kahane, a private college admissions counselor, gives advice on taking advantage of the “summer melt”, the time when students who submitted enrollment deposits decide over the summer not to attend the college.

In the Washington Post column, The Answer Sheet, college admissions consultant Bruce Vinik writes about the current inability to predict which qualified candidates will be accepted to the super-selective colleges such as Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, and their peers.  ”I can tell which applicants are qualified to be admitted, but I can’t tell who these schools are actually going to take. The fact is that there are too many extraordinarily qualified applicants chasing a limited number of spaces at the most selective colleges.”