By Leigh Moore The following is a message I published first in 2020. My role has changed a lot in the past three years. As a college...

...and one for your consideration in the meantime... Hello, friends--It's Leigh here. Is everybody ready for Thanksgiving? Brad...

Despite my affinity for charts, visualizations, and lists, I confess that I have mixed feelings about the public’s growing interest in...

"Students don’t always attend the most selective college which has admitted them." Every year, I post the above reminder on my personal...

Hi, friends! I have a three-part blog post for you: Part 1 (for my fellow parents of the Class of 2023) Contextualizing the commitment If...

The culture seems resolved to believe that college admissions is a meritocracy, and I get it. World-class achievers have adhered...

Hi, friends! I'm going to jump right in with some fresh data for you to view: Take a look at the 2-yr admit rate changes at the most...

Visualized below are all the applications filed at 81 colleges for Fall 2021. On the left are all the binding applications (Early...

Every student brings value to the process, an application “wallet” which holds up to six kinds of admissions currency: 1) the academic...

Defining Your Student's Objectives Hello, Moore College Data subscribers, and welcome to the blog. We decided to move our Viz of the Week...

The framework of my counseling method in both philosophy and practice was scandalously simple: Every college on a student’s list must...

Last Updated on November 10, 2020 by Real College Matters What is the most profound thing you’ve ever heard? Who said it to you? Amy...

Last Updated on November 10, 2020 by Real College Matters About six months ago, I wrote a blog post about the most profound thing anyone...

Last Updated on November 10, 2020 by Real College Matters As I labor over my efforts to articulate why a proactive approach to the...

Last Updated on November 10, 2020 by Real College Matters Admit rates are highlighted in yellow on this spreadsheet, but they don’t...

Tomorrow, May 1, will be college decision day for some students; for others, it’s six months past decision day. For more than a handful...

Last Updated on November 10, 2020 by Real College Matters 15 May 2019 Forgive me if I write too much about our older son during the next...

Last Updated on November 10, 2020 by Real College Matters 23 April 2019 (Earlier post, revised for the Class of 2020 and their mentors)...

Last Updated on July 2, 2021 by Real College Matters by Leigh Moore Please forgive me for the long delay since my last post. It’s been a...

(Quick note from Leigh: I hope everyone out there is well! I’m busy working on some pretty great family-friendly data tools which will be...