While many high school seniors approach early decision colleges by applying to their dream school, that’s not always the best approach. The best choices involve strategy just as much (if not more than) emotion. For the students torn between two or three potential early decision colleges, three tips are provided on how to choose.
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With Early Decision and Early Action deadlines looming closer, you may be asking yourself: is the stress and effort involved with applying Early actually worth it? According to admissions statistics at a variety of colleges, the answer is a resounding yes! Check out the Early vs. Regular admissions statistics from top colleges here and learn what the strongest college applicants demonstrate.
In this 3-part series on essay writing for your college application, insights are shared to help high school students understand what makes an essay good and how to get started on writing a unique, compelling story to tell in their personal statement. The essay also plays an important role in connecting a student's personal, academic, and extracurricular life.
To succeed, any organization needs to develop, maintain, and adhere to well-defined business processes and workflows. For family offices, which manage the complex financial and business affairs of ultra-high-net-worth families, best practice business processes are paramount to ensure efficiency and employee productivity, reduce risks, and improve outcomes. However, their value can only be realized through day-to-day usage and rigor.
Forces are converging on private equity and compelling the industry to evolve. Adapting to the dynamic deal landscape, this eBook examines how to approach and maximize deal value at each stage of the acquisition lifecycle. Other emerging pain points and how to negotiate them include:
In this ten minute interview, Brian Lucareli and Tim Voigtman of Foley & Lardner discuss developments regarding the entity-level taxation. Insights are provided on the impact of the SALT limitation, as a number of U.S. states have adopted legislation that allow flow-through entities to elect to pay state income taxes as an entity level tax.
Over the last ten years, U.S. growth stocks have outperformed U.S. value stocks by an average 7.8% per year. This has led some to question the existence of the value premium. However, for U.S. investors with the appropriate risk budget, time horizon, and patience, the overweight to value stocks could help overcome a lower-return environment over the next decade.
When choosing among cash flow opportunities, from the prepayment of loan principal to various investments, investors may be best served by following a quantitative framework to maximize future returns while considering the funding and timing needs of their goals. Any strategy must balance generating greater potential returns with an investor’s behavior, risk tolerance, and liquidity needs over time.
Ransomware is a dynamically evolving risk, impacting organizations around the world with rapidly increasing loss frequency and severity. The insights on this risk are intended to focus conversations around loss preparation and risk management, and help guide well-informed cybersecurity investments.
Couples nearing marriage often confront challenging questions and must make difficult decisions around complex, emotionally charged issues. Somewhere in the process of sorting out financial and estate planning decisions, the question on whether to have a prenuptial agreement may emerge. Here are steps that you and your families may find helpful in making the prenup experience more successful, and potentially avoid some fatal flaws.