Admissions Q&A: Hard Truths the Internet Won’t Tell You (Part 2)
Admissions Q&A: Hard Truths the Internet Won’t Tell You (Part 2)  
Podcast: The Game: A Guide to Elite College Admissions
Published On: Wed Mar 04 2026
Description: In this episode, we answer five different college admissions questions from students and families, including how class rank affects students’ candidacies at top colleges and whether to drop a junior year AP class in which a student has a B average.——“The Game” is hosted by Sam Hassell and brought to you by Great Minds Advising.Great Minds Advising’s unique, hands-on mentorship program and its deep strategic insight into the application review process have earned the company a nation-leading track record of excellence, with 100% of its students gaining admission to a top-choice school in the 2024–25 application cycle.Its students have recently gained admission to Stanford, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Penn, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, Rice, Northwestern, UC-Berkeley, and WashU (among many others) and are admitted to the Ivy League at a rate 14x the national average (90% when applying early).Web: greatmindsadvising.comContact: greatmindsadvising.com/#contactNewsletter: greatmindsadvising.com/#newsletterEmail: info@greatmindsadvising.comFB: facebook.com/GreatMindsAdvising/IG: instagram.com/greatmindsadvising