College application advice from current college students.
Strategy
November 9, 2026 4 min read
MIT took No. 1 from Princeton because U.S. News changed one weight. What that says about how colleges think, and how to write an application like it.
Rick Yang
UC Berkeley EECS + Math, c/o ’29
STEM
November 1, 2026 6 min read
Most STEM applications don’t fail because they’re weak. They fail because they’re identical. Four things I’d do differently if I applied for EECS again.
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