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Crafting Successful College Essays

Join College Compass and College Solutions to learn the myths, tips, and tricks behind crafting successful college essays. Anna Brown (Col ’07) and Stephanie Coberly Pluta (Col ’07) will share unique insight and practical feedback for how to make your essay dynamic and effective. Register

Cracking the Admission Code

Join College Compass and College Contact in a live Q&A with undergraduate students as they answer your looming questions about the admissions process and share tips from their own college search experiences. College Contact, founded in a UVA dorm room, is a college advising company that matches high school students to top-performing undergraduates. Register

College Compass Information Session and Q&A

Join the UVA Alumni Association’s College Compass team—Mary George (Col ’93) and Sarah Waller (Col ’10)—in a presentation about the UVA admission landscape, the UVA application process, the factors that make a competitive candidate, and the resources College Compass provides to support alumni families. This session is for alumni families with high school freshmen, sophomores […]

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Alumni Family Day at the Alumni Association

Join the UVA Alumni Association and the UVA Office of Undergraduate Admission in a day-long program to learn more about the college admission search and application process. Sessions will include Q&A panels with admission staff, Q&A panels with current students reflecting on their college search experience, an essay writing workshop, and more! Participation will have […]