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It Takes Admissions Intelligence To Be Accepted Into Your First-Choice Schools

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WE HAVE WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING FOR – ADMISSIONS INTELLIGENCE

It takes ADMISSIONS INTELLIGENCE to successfully navigate the uncertainty and challenges of an admissions process, whether you are striving to be admitted into elite boarding schools, Ivy League colleges/universities, top direct BS/MD programs or top medical schools!

Knowing that the admissions environment changes every year, rather than relying on old data, outdated books, antiquated information and tips from chatting with others (“adda”, as it is known in some circles among my clients), you should choose an experienced admissions expert to help.

ADMISSIONS INTELLIGENCE requires knowledge-intelligence, insight, foresight, vision, predictive analytics, an insider’s knowledge, collaboration, relationships, trust, contacts and networks!

You want to hire a firm where the CEO/lead admissions advisor works DIRECTLY with you and has the experience to help you STAND OUT amongst other applicants!

Stand out in the college selection process

Work Directly with Dr. Paul Lowe, Admissions Expert: Unlike other educational consulting firms, where clients are assigned to or farmed out to different employees or consultants, you work directly with Dr. Lowe.  As lead consultant/admissions advisor, Dr. Lowe personally works with each of his clients so that they directly benefit from his expertise, experience, networks, 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 Zoom sessions. – Admissions Strategy Meetings.  Dr. Lowe develops and crafts personalized winning admissions strategies for each client.

Supportive Team & Global Knowledge Network: Dr. Lowe’s admissions advisory team consists of a network of educational advisors, former admissions directors and officers, board members and trustees, active alumni and board members at selected educational institutions.  No other educational consulting firm has developed this type of 29-year expansive network!

Personalized Admissions Strategy Sessions with Dr Paul Lowe

Dr. Paul Lowe is CEO, managing director and lead admissions advisor of Pinnacle Educational Center Admissions Advisors Group.  PinnacleAAG is a global advisory firm providing strategic admissions advisory services to families and students seeking admissions to elite U.S. boarding and day schools, Ivy League and highly selective colleges and universities, direct BS/MD programs, top medical schools and graduate programs.  Ivy League Admissions Advisors helps students gain admissions to Ivy League and highly selective colleges and universities.  Boarding School Admissions Consultants helps student gain admissions to elite U.S. boarding schools – The Ten Schools.

PinnacleAAG is headquartered in Woodbridge, Connecticut, with satellite offices in Greenwich, Manhattan, White Plains, Boston, Fort Lee & Princeton, NJ, Wilmington, DE, and Houston; and international affiliate partners in London, Beijing, Delhi, Paris, São Paulo, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Lagos and Singapore, our clients hail from 50 countries.

College Application Essay HELP with Dr Paul Lowe

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It’s crunch time for BS/MD as well as Ivy League applications.  As we help students brainstorm ideas, revise and edit the MOST IMPORTANT APPLICATIONS/ESSAYS of their lives, we are discovering consistent points in their essays that will cause instant rejections.  Dr. Paul Lowe would like to share these points.

  • Essays were verbose.
  • Essays were not personal.
  • Essays were boring.
  • Essay did not answer the question.
  • Essays were superficial.
  • Essays were pretentious.
  • Essays contained grammatical errors and grammatical inaccuracies
  • Essays were disconnected from the application.
  • Essays sounded similar to online essay samples.
  • Essays sounded similar to samples in books.
  • Essay did not have the student’s voice.
  • Essays were simply cut and paste from another answer.
  • Essay was not well written.
  • Essays were formulaic.
  • Essays lacked harmony.

Noticed that we used the past tense!

The consensus that we have heard among most admissions officers at Ivy League as well as BS/MD programs is that an essay can both help and hurt you and essays are an opportunity to expand the admissions officer’s sense of who you are.

Here are some comments that Dr. Lowe has heard from admissions officers regarding application essays:

  • “I don’t like to see an essay that you can almost see was written by parents.”
  • “If an essay is notable for its weakness, then both readers are likely to comment on its shortcomings and factor that into their recommendations to the committee.”
  • “A badly written essay can certainly tip the scale the wrong way even when the parts of a student’s application is otherwise strong.”
  • “We turn down many students with great grades and test scores who have poor essays.”
  • “If I read an essay that has the same theme that I have read from a website or a book, the student is instantly rejected.”

After years of hard work and preparation, why make mistakes on application essays that could cause INSTANT REJECTION!

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“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.

Harvard University Produces Wealthy Alumni

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It’s college admissions time for rising seniors and I am now hearing from parents, high school guidance counselors and independent educational counselors state that it doesn’t matter where you attend college, as long as where you attend is a “good fit”.

Based on the fact that we live in a capitalistic and democratic society where money, prestige, status and brand matter, I disagree with this opinion. I published two blogs on this subject two years ago.  Does It Really Matter Where You Attend College? Absolutely! (2017)  Intellectual Wealth and Education (2017)

According to The University Ultra High Net Worth Alumni Rankings 2019, a recent study by Wealth-X, a leading global wealth information, research-intelligence and insight firm that tracks global wealth, there is a direct relationship between where you attended college and wealth. The study is based on research on wealth estimated wealth of (Ultra-High-Net-Worth (UHNW) alumni by alma mater.

Six out of eight Ivy League universities were featured in the top 20 list of U.S. universities for UHNW alumni. Each of the top 20 global universities on the ranking had at least 2,000 UHNW alumni, and the top five had more than 3,000. Ultra-high-net-worth is defined by Wealth-X as those with a net worth of greater than $30 million.

According to the most recent rankings, Harvard has more than 13,650 estimated UHNW alumni worth $4.769 trillion.

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“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.