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New Help on the Scholarship Front
Acceptance letters come in May! Then right after acceptance letters come, reality sets in as you decide which college you can actually afford...
Early Acceptance Medical Programs
Are you in the top 1% of your high school graduating class? Do you have better than 700s in your Math SAT or your Chemistry Subject test? Would you...
College Changes May Help Students
American universities and colleges are considered some of the best in the world. In a Chinese survey, 35 American post-secondary schools ranked in...
Self-regulated Learning
Have you had a bad semester or first year at college? Did the work seem overwhelming or were your grades not up to par? Perhaps it’s not because you...
More on College Majors
Our last blog covered new majors in college that are developing and being refined to accommodate new career areas. Now let’s look at how students are...
The Short Application Essay
The short essays you will be asked to write, either for the Common Application or for colleges that ask specifically for other essays, will seem easy...
How to Choose Your Major
Jobs are far more complex than than they used to be. At the same time, today there are endless possibilities for the types of job that you can have...
The Optional Interview
Some colleges state that an interview with them is optional. But, is it really? It is tempting in your busy senior year not to take the extra time...
Consider the Humble MBA
When I was an undergraduate the jump from high school kept me baffled for the first year and the question of, “What comes next?” kept me thoroughly...