Dr Lowe Visits Lawrenceville School

Lawrenceville School Private School Visits Dr Paul Lowe

July 31, 2019August 2, 2019 ~ drpaulloweadmissionsexpert

Dr. Lowe and his team of admissions advisors visited Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Rated by Niche as: #1 Best Boarding High School in N.J., #1 Best High School Private School in N.J. and #5 Best Boarding High School in America.

Dr. Lowe had the opportunity to discuss Lawrenceville and its admissions policies with Samuel Washington, Senior Associate Dean of Admission; Director of Multicultural Affairs.

Dr Paul Lowe Samuel Washington Boarding School Visit — Samuel Washington, Senior Assoc. Dean of Admission; Dir. of Multicultural Affairs with Dr. Lowe

Lawrenceville is one of the Ten Schools and what makes it unique among other elite New England schools is that it is only one hour from Manhattan. Its enrollment is 817 students, but appears as a smaller school because of its unique house system.

Dr. Lowe discussed the admissions criteria for applicants and the “Lawrenceville Effect”: “Bright, young people enter Lawrenceville. Four years later, they emerge, not only self-aware, but other-aware.”

Lawrenceville is one of the most prestigious, elite and highly selective boarding schools in the world. Its acceptance rate is 19%.

Lawrenceville’s college matriculation rate to Ivy League and highly selective colleges and universities is high. Here is a list of colleges/universities attended by five or more graduates of the classes of 2017, 2018, and 2019.

Brown (20)
Carnegie Mellon (11)
Columbia (18)
Cornell (22)
Dartmouth (8)
Georgetown (21)
Harvard (12)
MIT (5)
Princeton (31)
Stanford (8)
Tufts (16)
University Chicago (24)
UPenn (27)
Yale (17)

This year 2019, all of our U.S. as well as international clients who applied to Lawrenceville were accepted. Congratulations to all!!

The Power of Our School Visits: Dr. Lowe and his network of admissions advisors continually visit top U.S. boarding schools. By having on-site school visits, they gather real-time information, perform research, connect with admissions professionals and gain insider-insight. They are, therefore, able to help their clients gain a competitive advantage in the admissions process and get accepted. They visit these schools as much as 3 times annually! No foreign education agent or U.S.-based independent educational consultant spends their time visiting and understanding the unique individual admissions policies of each school like Boarding School Admissions Consultants.

“Admissions is a competitive sport! Why gamble with uncertainty?” – Dr. Paul Lowe.

Paul Reginald Lowe is the managing director and lead admissions expert at Pinnacle Educational Center Admissions Advisors Group’s Boarding School Admissions Consultants, an affiliate of Private School Admissions Advisors. Dr. Lowe specializes in providing exclusive concierge-type admissions advisory services for U.S. and international students who are interested in applying to top U.S. boarding schools. Dr. Lowe helps U.S. and international students gain admissions into top U.S. boarding schools even after they have been wait-listed and rejected. Dr. Lowe and his team of admissions advisors also visit prestigious and elite private schools, where they have the unique opportunity of interacting one-on-one with heads of schools, directors of admissions and senior admissions personnel.

We Are The Best – Let Us Prove It

July 22, 2019July 31, 2019 ~ drpaulloweadmissionsexpert

Pinnacle Educational Center Admissions Advisors Group at its affiliate firms have created a new campaign: “Are the Best – Let Us Prove It.”

Pinnacle Educational Center Admissions Advisors Group affiliates: Ivy League Admissions Advisors, Boarding School Admissions Consultants, Private School Admissions Advisors, BS MD Admissions Advisors, Medical School Admission Advisors and location affiliates help their clients successfully navigate the competitive admissions process to top private day and boarding schools, Ivy League and highly selective colleges and universities BS/MD programs and graduate schools.

Year after year, we receive calls from disappointed parents (and students) who either tried the competitive admissions process on their own or hired inexperienced educational consultants who are not specialized in the hyper-competitive admissions process. The result: admissions disaster and catastrophe – rejection from all their top day and boarding schools, colleges and universities and acceptance into “good fit” safety schools!

We have been in business for over 21 years and take pride in our unmatched admissions success and results.

“Admissions is a competitive sport! Why gamble with uncertainty?” – Dr. Paul Lowe

“We provide our clients access to our specialized knowledge!” – Dr. Paul Lowe

7-Year BS/MD Programs

July 12, 2019February 11, 2020 ~ drpaulloweadmissionsexpert

High school students with a strong science background, high GPA, relevant extracurricular activities, volunteer or work experience in the medical field, and a strong commitment to going to medical school should consider applying for combined BS/MD or combined BA/MD programs. Many of our clients prefer seven-year BS/MD programs.

Here is a partial list of several 7-year BS/MD programs:

Boston University (BA/MD program)
California Northstate University
City College of New York School of Medicine
Drexel University
Florida Atlantic University
Florida Gulf Coast University
Florida State University College of Medicine
George Washington University
Northwestern University/Feinberg School of Medicine
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute/Albany Medical College
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Temple University
University of Nevada
University of South Florida

“Admissions is a competitive sport! Why gamble with uncertainty?” – Dr. Paul Lowe

Dr. Paul Reginald Lowe is the managing director of Pinnacle Educational Center Admissions Advisors Group network. He and his team of admissions advisors, through the admissions affiliate, BS/MD Admissions Advisors, help high school students get accepted to BS/MD programs. Summer Camp: BS/MD Application Boot Camp.

Hiring An Educational Consultant: What’s Your Price?

July 11, 2019July 11, 2019 ~ drpaulloweadmissionsexpert

From time to time, parents who inquire about our services first ask: “What’s your price?” before even asking what we do and our success rate.

It’s obvious from this question that they are shopping for the cheapest price, not the best service. I imagine that these parents would ask the same question, considering the cheapest price and not quality service, to a pediatric surgeon, a tax attorney, a financial advisor or perhaps a vendor in an open market place.

Hiring an independent private admissions advisor is an academic investment in a child’s future, not an expense – It’s priceless.

If a parent is willing to make the choice to shop for the cheapest price then they should be willing to accept that this choice is the reason why their child was REJECTED from their top choice private/boarding school or college. Remember the adage: “You get what you pay for”.

“Admissions is a competitive sport! Why gamble with uncertainty?” – Dr. Paul Lowe

“We provide our clients access to our specialized knowledge!” – Dr. Paul Lowe

Dr Lowe Visits Phillips Academy Andover

July 8, 2019July 10, 2019 ~ drpaulloweadmissionsexpert

Dr. Lowe and his team of admissions advisors recently visited Phillips Academy Andover aka Andover.

As you all know, Andover is a member of the Ten Schools and is one of the most prestigious, elite and highly selective boarding schools in the world. It’s acceptance rate is 13%.

Andover is an extraordinary boarding school with endless opportunities. It’s academics, facilities and teachers are simply amazing. Add all this to the atmosphere of bright and happy students and you get a community that produces future world leaders.

Andover’s college matriculation rate to Ivy League and highly selective colleges and universities is high. Here is a list of the number of students from the Class of 2018 who attend these top colleges and universities:

Brown (14)
Columbia (9)
Cornell (10)
Dartmouth (6)
Georgetown (9)
Harvard (11)
MIT (8)
Princeton (5)
Stanford (6)
Tufts (11)
University Chicago (17)
UPenn (8)
Yale (14)

With a graduating class of 321 this means that 40% of its class were accepted to Ivy League and the most competitive colleges and universities. See our blog: Elite Boarding Schools Matter!

This year 2019, all of our U.S. as well as international clients who applied to Andover were accepted. Congratulations to all!!

“Admissions is a competitive sport! Why gamble with uncertainty?” – Dr. Paul Lowe.

The College Admissions Landscape Has Changed Again: Adversity Score

July 1, 2019August 6, 2019 ~ drpaulloweadmissionsexpert

The College Board, the New York based nonprofit that oversees the SAT, plans to assign an adversity score to every student who takes the SAT to try to capture their social and economic backgrounds. This fall, 100 colleges and universities will join the 50 colleges (which include Harvard, Yale, Cornell and University of Michigan) already utilizing this new metric designed to place students’ SAT scores in the context of their socioeconomic advantages or disadvantages.

This adversity score is calculated using 15 environmental factors that influence a student’s home and school life – including the neighborhood’s crime rate and poverty levels, the community’s average educational attainment, housing values, and vacancies. While students won’t see, know or be told their scores, colleges will see the numbers when reviewing their applications.

What does this mean for rising seniors? The college admissions landscape has changed again. Colleges will have an objective tool that will not just consider a student’s race, but their socio-economic class in making admissions decisions. To be clear, colleges and universities have considered socioeconomic factors previously; but the pilot study of this method using the adversity score has accelerated the inclusion of lower income and minority students. Admissions will be even more competitive!

“Admissions is a competitive sport! Why gamble with uncertainty?” – Dr. Paul Lowe

“We provide our clients access to our specialized knowledge!” – Dr. Paul Lowe

Dr. Paul Reginald Lowe, founder and managing director of Pinnacle Educational Center Admissions Advisors Group, provides comprehensive counseling advice, exclusively for admissions to top private schools; Ivy League and highly-selective colleges/universities; BS/MD programs; graduate and medical schools and top visual and performing arts programs. The admissions affiliate: Ivy League Admissions Advisors specializes in admissions to Ivy League and highly selective colleges, Dr. Lowe also specializes in helping students who have been wait-listed, deferred or rejected gain admission into their top-choice schools: College Application Rejected. and student who wish to transfer to another college: College Transfer Admissions Advisors.