Balancing Act
Your first week at college will be overwhelming. Your first month may be overwhelming as well. With this great amount of change, it’s very easy for college to completely upset any routine you’ve had...
View Article80 Free Summer Programs for High School Students
Summer programs are a wonderful way to challenge yourself academically, socially, and emotionally while in high school. These programs often provide rigorous academic work along with a student body of...
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Q&A: How to Discuss Summer Programs on the Common App
I’ve done CTY summer programs for three or four summers now. I don’t know where they would go on the common app? Would you put it down under “classes taken on a college campus” or just the...
View ArticleThe Slippery Slope of Plagiarism
Here’s an exercise for you, compare these two ledes. “Frank Lloyd Wright was notorious for saving everything, from his personal correspondence to scribbles on Plaza Hotel napkins. Since Wright’s death...
View ArticleQ&A AP or Dual Enrollment
I’m taking Calculus II & III (CD) in high school as part of this program my school does with a nearby college, and I was just wondering how that would look on my application? I get a separate...
View Article32 Colleges That Don’t Consider Your Freshman Grades
So you screwed up freshman year. You were 14 years old, unfocused, and unmotivated. You ended up with a 2.5 GPA. But you buckled down during your sophomore, junior, and senior years. Your sophomore GPA...
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Q&A: How to Improve Math Skills
Hi, do you have any advice on how to improve my math skills/grades, I’m an average math student I usually score in the 80′s sometimes I slip up and get mid 70′s. 8th and 9th grade I basically had...
View ArticleQ&A Late Start to Extracurricular Activities
How much do colleges care if you only began being involved in extracurriculars in junior year? I had a difficult personal situation, which was preventing me from doing much outside of school. Is it...
View ArticleQ&A Is Blogging an Extracurricular Activity?
I’m arguing with my dad about putting my blog on my college resume. I blog about Disney so everything is school appropriate. It reaches over five hundred people and I get anywhere from one to ten...
View ArticleQ&A A-Level Requirements for US Universities
I live in the UK but I wish to attend Columbia, I was wondering if you knew whether they require certain a-levels? As you probably know, getting an offer from a university in the UK is not a guarantee...
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