Embark Online Applications and Admissions

03/10/2023

Our thoughts are with former President Jimmy Carter and his family after his recent decision to enter hospice care. Embark is nonpartisan and honored to support the foundations and NGOs of several current and former world leaders, including The Carter Center. We hope this New York Times article shares new insights for you into his remarkable legacy.

Jimmy Carter was probably the most intelligent, hard-working and decent man to have occupied the Oval Office in the 20th century.

11/09/2020

We’re excited to share that our federal aid application service was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal as an “increasingly popular option” for students and families to file their FAFSA.

There are many options, free or not, to ease your way through the application process.

12/10/2019

Our CEO, Sarita James, was recently profiled in Forbes! Check it out here:

Sarita James is the CEO of Embark, an admissions software company whose new College Cents service has already helped thousands of US students claim government aid and pay for college.

09/17/2019

Our own Devyn Gardner was recently a guest columnist sharing top tips for a better application and admissions process:

Five Tips for a Better Application and Admissions Process - Enterprisetechsuccess

05/20/2019

Congrats to the Morehouse Class of 2019 who will be entering the post-grad world student debt free.

Don't forget we've developed our own tool to make filing for your financial aid easier -- learn more at https://collegecents.com

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/education/morehouse-college-robert-f-smith.html

Robert F. Smith, who founded Vista Equity Partners and became the richest black man in America, said that he and his family would pay the Class of 2019’s debt.

05/06/2019

We’re proud of Devyn Gardner, our Partnerships Lead, who re-connected with her Girl Scout roots this past weekend. Devyn and our CEO, Sarita James, led a financial literacy session for high school-aged Girl Scouts to teach ways of thinking about and financing post-secondary education. Left: Devyn, age 8, as a Girl Scout. Top Right: Sarita, Devyn, and Leslie Fields, the Director of the GS of NYC Leadership Institute. Bottom Right: Devyn leading the Session.

03/14/2019

Unfortunately admissions has been in the news for the wrong reasons. Schools are having to make decisions about what to do about these students whose parents were implicated.

Fifty people are accused of participating in a scheme that involved cheating on standardized tests and bribing college coaches and others to admit students as athletes regardless of their abilities, prosecutors revealed in a federal indictment Tuesday.

04/25/2018

We're very happy to see the very first class of Schmidt Science Fellows announced yesterday. The new program, sponsored by Eric and Wendy Schmidt and run in partnership with the Rhodes Trust, supports the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists during their post-doc experience.

NEW YORK, April 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Eric and Wendy Schmidt, in partnership with the Rhodes Trust, today...

04/23/2018

Devyn and Kyra recently attended the NAGAP (Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals) Conference - a great place to keep up with the evolving trends in the Graduate Admissions space - in New Orleans.

04/19/2018

Embark is excited that the US Senate voted this week to change rules to allow Senators, starting with Senator Tammy Duckworth, to bring babies to work. CBS New York recently featured Embark's own parenting in the workplace policy.

It turns out several hundred U.S. companies have formally adopted policies to allow newborns in the workplace with mom or dad.

03/12/2018

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/02/harvard-names-lawrence-s-bacow-as-29th-president/

Lawrence S. Bacow, one of the most experienced and respected leaders in American higher education, will become the 29th president of Harvard University on July 1.

01/23/2018

Congratulations to the new leadership of the Rhodes Trust!

When Kiss announced that she would be stepping down as president of Agnes Scott, she had no idea the Rhodes opportunity was a possibility.