For students that work with us in our Mentorship Services, the Admissions Angle strategy has been premeditated for years, so senior year is all about execution and visibility on the applications. For anyone coming to us end of junior year or senior year, the process becomes a bit more urgent and less organic.
The best way to craft an Angle later on in the game is to reverse engineer it based on the student’s existing extracurricular profile. This may mean suggesting that the student apply for a major that they don’t necessarily want to apply for because their academics and extracurricular involvement just don’t support it. In the end, the major choice is the student’s but he/she should remember that for most institutions, it’s not that difficult to change majors, and if it is difficult, it’s worth the extra effort later on. An Admissions Angle is a strategy to give them the best admissions outcome possible.