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How to maintain your VOICE in a college essay

Category:

Admission Application
Published:

08 Dec 2020

I write only because / There is a voice within me / That will not be still. –Sylvia Plath When you begin writing your application essays, it is hard to do it alone. Naturally, we l...

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The Value of Persistence in securing an Admission in a Top College

Category:

Admission Application
Published:

16 Mar 2018

Epitomized by Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hours rule, success eventually boils down to ‘persistence.’ If you pull in efforts over a period of time (called...

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How to Prepare for Education Abroad after Grade X

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

18 Apr 2018

A lot of students from India are increasingly opting to go to top-notch institutes outside their country after their grade XII. Increasingly students are looking at a broad swathe of courses over and ...

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SAT Subjects are Cancelled - What Next?

Category:

Admission Application
Published:

01 Feb 2021

The College board has announced that SAT Subject Tests have been discontinued in the US and will be discontinued internationally after June 2021. The decision does not affect the main SAT tests. ...

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“Mamma, I am not lazy, I am just creative”

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

24 Jan 2018

I am often confronted with the sight of my kid lying around doing nothing, and the desire to push him to do something, anything (except lying around), becomes the blinding thought. Trained on a consta...

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Who should I get my References from?

Category:

Admission Application
Published:

03 Mar 2017

The Letters of Reference (LoR) are the third-party validation of your self-declaration in the application to any university. These letters help the evaluator look at your application ...

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Prepare a Bucket List of Programs!

Category:

Admission Application
Published:

10 Apr 2017

Choosing the right University/Course combination which fits well with your skills and interests, has the right brand value and eventually leads to a great job are the most important factors bef...

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Scientific Approach to Application Preparation

Category:

Admission Application
Published:

06 Mar 2019

American psychologist and psychometrician, Robert J Sternberg's came up with the triarchic theory of intelligence suggesting that there are three kinds of intelligence: Componential intelligenc...

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The only two languages that a kid needs to learn today are English and AI..

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

01 May 2018

This was a comment from the exasperated parent of a school-going boy. He was already struggling having to learn 2 languages - English and Hindi, and multiple subjects like Language and Literature in b...

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