Category: College Application Decisions

College Applications – Rejected and Deferred? Second Chances!

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Year after year, I hear horror stories from parents whose children were accepted into their SAFETY schools because they thought the college admissions race was just about grades, SAT scores, their perceived “unique” applications, generic essays and “perfect” connections.  Their children are either outright rejected or deferred in the regular decision pool and then rejected.

I have even had four clients, this year, who assumed that they knew more than me, an admissions advisor with 29 years of experience, not follow my recommendations and advice to their essays and applications……only to be outright rejected from their top-choice schools.

Dr. Lowe specializes in helping students get into their top choice schools through our SECOND CHANCE programs – Off Deferral List and Reapplication-Transfer. Dr. Paul develops winning admissions strategies to help students off the deferral list to be accepted in the regular decision pool. He also successfully helps students who were rejected from the Ivies to transfer to the Ivies from their safety schools. We a have a 95% Acceptance rate with these programs, because by reviewing student applications and profiles and their mistakes, we know what went wrong!

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If your child is among the students who were deferred and/or rejected you should consider the SECOND CHANCE Admissions programs.

Everyone deserves a SECOND CHANCE.  This time hire and follow the winning admissions advice of an expert!

****Working Directly with Dr. Paul Lowe, Admissions Expert: Unlike other educational consulting firms, where clients are assigned to different employees or consultants, Dr. Lowe, as lead consultant/admissions advisor, personally works with each of his clients so that they directly benefit from his expertise, experience, contacts and the collective knowledge of his educational team. Dr. Lowe’s exclusivity allows him to provide individualized attention, commitment and principal availability to each client through Skype/Zoom sessions.****

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Early Decision and Early Action Notification Dates For 2024-2025 College Applicants

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~ drpaulloweadmissionsexpert

It’s the 2024-2025 Early Decision and Early Action season!  Competition to Ivy League and highly selective colleges are expected to be high.  Therefore, expect many applicants with high SAT/ACT scores, high grades and seemly perfect applications and personal statements to be rejected or deferred to the regular decision pool.

We expect, based our strategies, in-depth planning and Weekly-Skype sessions with Dr. Lowe that many of our clients will begin to hear happy and positive news from colleges and BS/MD programs!

Here are some early decision and early action notification dates for Ivy League and highly selective colleges and universities:

  • Barnard College:  ED by Mid-December
  • Boston College:  ED by December 15
  • Boston University:  ED by December 15
  • Brown University:  ED by Mid-December
  • Cal Tech:  REA by Mid-December
  • Carnegie Mellon University:  ED by December 15
  • Columbia University:  ED by Mid-December
  • Cornell University:  ED by Mid-December
  • Dartmouth University:  ED by Mid-December
  • Duke University:  ED by Mid-December
  • Georgetown University:  EA by December 15
  • Hamilton College:  ED by December 15
  • Harvard University:  REA by Mid-December
  • Johns Hopkins University:  ED on December 13
  • MIT:  EA by Mid-December
  • New York University:  ED by December 15
  • Northwestern University:  ED in December
  • Princeton University: SCEA by Mid-December
  • Rice University: ED in Mid-December
  • Stanford University:  REA by Mid-December
  • Swarthmore College:  ED by Mid-December
  • Tufts University:  ED by Mid-December
  • University of Chicago: ED and EA by Mid-December
  • University of Michigan:  EA by Late January 2025
  • University of Notre Dame: REA by Mid-December 15
  • University of Pennsylvania:  ED by Mid-December
  • Vanderbilt University: ED by Mid December
  • Villanova University: ED by December 15; EA by January 20
  • Yale University:  SCEA by Mid-December
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We expect that our clients will have positive results on the above dates because of Dr. Lowe’s weekly Student Parent meetings!

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By having Admissions Strategy Skype/Zoom sessions directly with Dr. Paul Lowe, brainstorming ideas, developing admissions strategies, essay review, and mock interview sessions to develop amazing student profiles, our clients stand out and are accepted into Ivy League and highly selective colleges/universities and BS/MD programs

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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 gain admissions to BS/MD programs:| BS/MD Admissions Guru | BS/MD Admissions Advisors.

Dr. Lowe’s Clients Accepted to Brown PLME – Our Acceptance Results 2023

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~ drpaulloweadmissionsexpert

I am very pleased and happy to announce our final results for Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME): 9 of our clients were accepted to Brown PLME.

According to Brown University’s press release on March 31st, “..74 students were admitted to the Program in Liberal Medical Education an eight-year program leading to both a bachelor’s degree and an M.D. from Brown’s Warren Alpert Medical School.”

What does this mean?

  • This year, 12% of the Brown PLME class are our clients!
  • My clients were accepted to one of the top BS/MD programs in the world and the only Ivy BS/MD program!
  • Dr. Lowe and his team understand that successful admissions results involve more than just a 3-page resume packed with achievements, a high GPA and a high SAT score. It’s about BS/MD Admissions Knowledge.
  • Dr. Paul Lowe and his team provide unparalleled, unrivaled and unmatched admissions advisory services!

Families who choose to retain me, recognize the value I will bring and WANT to experience my unique perspective and advice that will undoubtedly increase the chances of positive admissions results for their children.

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Many people talk or write about how to get into Brown PLME. Year after year, we provide RESULTS!
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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. As a result of his continuous clients’ acceptances into BS/MD programs, his clients have considered him: BS/MD Admissions Guru.

Our BS/MD Admissions practice is specialized: Dr. Lowe and his team ONLY work with parents who understand that the BS/MD admissions process is highly competitive and thus desire help from an admissions expert. They appreciate the value and investment in paying for expert advice consisting of a detailed and ongoing comprehensive admissions advisory service for their child’s dream of becoming a doctor.  He also specializes in helping international students in the BS/MD process. Parents who chose to use our services want to call their son or daughter – “Doctor” when they are seniors in high school.

Regular Decision Notification Dates: 2023

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~ drpaulloweadmissionsexpert

Based on our research and discussions with directors/deans of admissions and admissions officers, regular decision applicants (for the 2022-2023 admissions season) will be receiving their decision notifications in March and early April and it will be another highly competitive year!

Here are regular decision notification dates (and approximate times) for Ivy League and highly selective colleges and universities:

  • Barnard College:  March 31, 2023
  • Boston College:  April 1, 2023
  • Boston University: Late March 2023
  • Brown University:  March 31, 2023
  • Bucknell University:  April 1, 2023
  • California Institute of Technology: Mid-March 2023
  • Carnegie Mellon University:  April 1, 2023
  • Colgate University: Late-March 2023
  • Columbia University:  Late March 2023
  • Cornell University:  Late March 2023
  • Dartmouth College:  Late March 2023
  • Duke University:  Late March 2023
  • Georgetown University:  April 1, 2023
  • Georgia Institute of Technology:  Early-March 2023
  • Hamilton College:  Mid-March 2023
  • Harvard University:  Late March 2023
  • Johns Hopkins University:  Late March 2023
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology:  Mid-March 2023
  • New York University:  Late March 2023
  • Northeastern University: April 1, 2023
  • Northwestern University: Late March 2023
  • Princeton University: Late March 2023
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: March 11, 2023
  • Stanford University:  Early April 2023
  • Swarthmore College: Late March 2023
  • Tufts University:  April 1, 2023
  • University of Chicago:  Mid-March 2023
  • University of Michigan: Early April 2023
  • University of Notre Dame:  Late March 2023
  • University of Pennsylvania:  Late March 2023
  • University of Virginia:  April 1, 2023
  • Vanderbilt University:  April 1, 2023
  • Vassar College:  April 5, 2023
  • Villanova University:  April 1, 2023
  • Wesleyan University:  Late March 2023
  • Yale University:  Late March 2023
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WHAT CAN YOU DO?  For seniors, if you are rejected, you may want to begin to consider transferring (College Transfer Admissions Advisors). For current juniors, you may need to consider hiring an admissions expert who specializes in Ivy League admissions (Ivy League Admissions Advisors). Year after year, our clients are accepted to Ivy League and highly selective colleges and universities and BS/MD programs because they recognize the importance and the value that we add to their student profile. We are DIFFERENT and that makes us the BEST!

Several of our clients who applied early to the above schools have already been accepted!!!!

For parents of high school juniors, you should consider hiring Dr. Paul Lowe. Ivy League and highly selective colleges and universities and BS/MD programs are not seeking perfect students, but applicants who have unique and unmatched profiles to be members of their incoming classes.

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Dr. Lowe and his team of diverse admissions experts provide unrivaled, unmatched and unparalleled admissions advisory and educational research services for their clients. Most importantly, you work DIRECTLY with Dr. Lowe and get the benefits of his entire team. By working with Dr. Lowe, one-on-one, you work with his reputation, his expertise, his experience and his success!

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Dr. Lowe through his Continuous Weekly Student-Parent Skype Meetings to help students honestly assess their strength to get into these schools, where admissions officers often make split-second decisions, based minute details in an applicant’s profile.

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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.   Ivy League Admissions Advisors specializes in admissions to Ivy League and highly selective colleges. BS/MD Admissions Advisors specializes in admissions to top BS/MD programs – Brown PLME, UPitts, RPI/AMC, Rochester – REMS, etc. 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. 

Early Decision and Early Action Notification Dates For 2022-2023 College Applicants

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~ drpaulloweadmissionsexpert

It’s the 2022-2023 Early Decision and Early Action season!  Competition to Ivy League and highly selective colleges are expected to be high.  Therefore, expect many applicants with high SAT/ACT scores, high grades and seemly perfect applications and personal statements to be rejected or deferred to the regular decision pool.

Many of our clients are beginning to hear happy and positive news from colleges!

Here are some early decision and early action notification dates for Ivy League and highly selective colleges and universities:

  • Barnard College:  Mid-December
  • Boston College:  December 15
  • Boston University:  December 15
  • Brown University:  Mid-December
  • Cal Tech:  Mid-December
  • Carnegie Mellon University:  December 15
  • Columbia University:  Mid-December
  • Cornell University:  Mid-December
  • Dartmouth University:  Mid-December
  • Duke University:  Mid-December
  • Georgetown University:  December 15
  • Hamilton College:  December 15
  • Harvard University:  Mid-December
  • Johns Hopkins University:  December 16
  • MIT:  Mid-December (EA)
  • New York University:  December 15 (ED I); (February 15 ED II)
  • Northwestern University:  Mid-December
  • Princeton University: Mid-December (SCEA)
  • Stanford University:  Mid-December
  • Swarthmore College:  Mid-December
  • Tufts University:  Mid-December
  • University of Michigan:  Late January 2023
  • University of Notre Dame: December 15
  • University of Pennsylvania:  Mid-December
  • Villanova University: December 15
  • Yale University:  Mid-December
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We expect that our clients will have positive results on the above dates because of Dr. Lowe’s weekly Student Parent meetings!

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By having continuous Weekly Skype/Zoom sessions directly with Dr. Paul Lowe, brainstorming ideas, developing admissions strategies, essay review, and mock interview sessions to develop amazing student profiles, our clients stand out and are accepted into Ivy League and highly selective colleges/universities and BS/MD programs

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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. 

Congratulations on Our Clients’ Ivy League Acceptances – Class of 2026

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~ drpaulloweadmissionsexpert
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We have had another amazing year! We are so happy for our clients! We did it!

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Congratulations to our U.S. as well as international clients who were accepted to the following Ivy League colleges and universities: these colleges and universities!  It’s a celebration! Thanks for allowing us to help you stand out and get in!

  • Brown University
  • Columbia University
  • Cornell University
  • Harvard University
  • Dartmouth College
  • Princeton University
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Yale University

Special congratulations to our clients who were accepted to multiple Ivies!

You may ask how we can have such great results? Here are some reasons:

My team and our global network of talent including elocutionists, actors, writers, musicians, ethnomusicologists, historians, psychologists, alumni, educators, risk managers, economists, professors, physicians, scientists, linguists, anthropologists, attorneys, essayists, technologists, admissions professionals, analysts, student-interns and librarians bring collaborative and diverse thought, insight, foresight, perspectives and most importantly KNOWLEDGE.

WE ARE THE BEST!: We embrace Empirical Analytics by using data science, technology, client-case studies, campus-expert panels, our specialized knowledge and insight, and over 23 years of experience to answer questions, navigate challenges, predict outcomes, and to help our clients make informed decisions that provide results-based admissions success.

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Most applicants to Ivy League schools sound the same!  We help you “un-same” your application and stand out!
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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.  

Congratulations on Our Clients’ College Acceptances – Part I

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Congratulations to our U.S. as well as international clients who have been accepted to these colleges and universities!  It’s a celebration! Thanks for allowing us to help you stand out and get in!

  • Boston University
  • Bowdoin College
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Georgetown University
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Northwestern University
  • Swarthmore College
  • Tufts University
  • University of Chicago
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Wesleyan University
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For current juniors/rising seniors – Let’s us prove it!
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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. 

College Application Decision: Deferred? Now What?

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~ drpaulloweadmissionsexpert

High School Seniors have received their College Admissions Early Decision/Early Action results.  The results are producing a mixture of palpable emotions.  While some happy students settle in for the holidays with their acceptance letters in hand, others will be disappointed and distressed in discovering that they have been deferred to the regular decision pool by the college or university.  For those who are deferred, their applications will be re-considered along with the thousands of Regular Decision applicants.  In the Regular Decision pool, the selection process becomes even more competitive and selective..

With only a few weeks left in the application season, I recommend that students scrupulously reevaluate their deferred early decision/early action application and carefully plan a workable strategy in this crunch-time.  You may need to hire an educational consultant who is an expert in post-decision admissions advising. Our team begins to implement a Post-Decision Strategy right away that will continue through regular decision.

For parents who engage our services after the news of deferral, I discover what the student did to be deferred, build upon their current student profile and accomplishments and re-energize their application so that they are removed from the deferred list and placed on the accepted list.

The worst thing a student can do is nothing.  What to do next? Now is the time to evaluate and successfully complete the admissions process by looking at your child through a professional lens. The worst thing parents can do is to try this post-decision process on their own.

Through our Knowledge Network, we know that between 5% – 10% of students who are deferred admissions are accepted to the same college Regular Decision. Those are pretty high odds! Based on our experience and 23-years track record of success, 90% of students who approach us and retain us before January 1, after being deferred are admitted Regular Decision. 

This is the type of letter you want to receive!
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This is how you would like to feel!
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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.  

Happy Diwali!

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~ drpaulloweadmissionsexpert

Diwali, the five-day “Festival of Lights”, is one of the most popular and celebrated holidays in India.  The festival gets its name from the row (avali) of clay lamps (deepa) that Indians light outside their homes to symbolize the inner light that protects from spiritual darkness. Diwali marks a spiritual awakening and symbolizes “victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance”.

There are several ways to say Happy Diwali:

  • In Hindi: “Diwali ki Shubhkamnayein” or “Shush Deepavali”
  • In Punjabi: “tuhanu Diwali diyan bohat both vadhaiyan”
  • In Gujarati: “Diwali ni mubarak or saal Mubarak”
  • In Tamil: “Deepavali nalvazhthukal”

What is significant and uplifting with respect to Diwali and my firm is that many of our clients observe Diwali as they are enjoying the campuses of their top-choice colleges which include, although are not limited to Brown, RPI, Boston University, Case Western, Cornell, Rice, Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth.  Many are now in the corresponding medical schools of their undergraduate BS/MD programs.

This year, on day four, I was given gifts and invited to participate in Diwali, with clients who are now friends whose children were accepted to Harvard, Brown (undergraduate), Brown PLME, Harvard, Yale, Cornell and Columbia.

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What makes us different?  Dr. Paul Lowe and his team of diverse admissions experts provide unrivaled, unmatched and unparalleled admissions advisory and educational research services for their clients. Most importantly, you work DIRECTLY with Dr. Lowe and get the benefits of his entire team. By working with Dr. Lowe, one-on-one, you work with his reputation, his expertise, his experience and his success!

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.

Not All Legacy Applicants Are Accepted!

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~ drpaulloweadmissionsexpert

Legacy admissions is complex and sometimes viewed as a controversial issue. However, the bottom-line is that legacy admissions exists. What is true is that legacy applicants are affirmatively accepted. Ivies and top schools do consider legacy applicants and in some cases being a legacy is advantage in the application process. Based on surveys and statistics over 70% of top U.S. colleges and universities in the United States factor legacy status into their admissions decisions..

Who is a legacy applicant:? An applicant whose parents attended or graduated from the college or university to which they are applying.

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Many US colleges admit “legacies”, or students with a family connection to the university, at dramatically higher rates than other applicants. For example, At Harvard, the acceptance rate for legacy students is about 33%, compared with an overall acceptance rate of under 6%. In Harvard’s incoming class of 2023, 23% were legacy. Princeton’s legacy applicants are admitted at roughly four times the rate of applicants overall. 

In a recent article in the Hechinger Report: As Elite College Applications Soar, Legacy Admissions Still Give Wealthy and Connected Students an Edge, an interesting point of view was given. “Admitting legacy students also helps fund scholarships”, said Angel Pérez, chief executive officer of NACAC, “Legacy admissions foster lifelong loyalties and are a direct result of the way colleges are financed, with so much dependence on tuition revenue,” he added.  So legacy admissions is not likely to end soon.

However, here is the other side.  Not all legacies are admitted, and increasingly, more and more legacy applicants are being rejected.

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Applications to colleges and universities have soared. Harvard surged by 42% to 57,000 applicants, Brown surged by 26% to 46,469 applicants and Princeton surged by 15% to 37,000 applicants.  The increase in applications has affected the highly competitive schools as well as the institutions that top students usually considered “safety schools”.  NYU surged by 20% to 100,000 applicants, UCLA surged by 28% to 139,000 applicants and Colgate surged by 102% to 17,392 applicants (last year Colgate had 8,582 applicants). With these numbers, more and more legacy applicants are being rejected. We have been receiving calls from legacy parents regarding the fact that their children are being waitlisted or outright rejected.

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

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

“Parents hire us because they choose to pay an admissions expert who will help them avoid making mistakes.” – Dr. Paul Lowe

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Dr. Paul Lowe, Admissions Expert

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.  For colleges and universities that recommend or require videos: College Admissions Video Productions.