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Should I write about the Coronavirus in my College Admission Essay?

Category:

Admission Application
Published:

09 Apr 2020

Should I write about the Coronavirus in my College Admission Essay? The short answer is, probably not. What is a good essay? Let us recap what makes a college essay memorable and impactfu...

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How to accept a college admission offer in the times of COVID 19

Category:

Insights & Information
Published:

30 Mar 2020

With April round the corner, the date for accepting a college admission is fast approaching. However, the excitement to begin a new course, in a new country, to take some big steps, explore education ...

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How to Choose your Admissions Counselor?

Category:

Admission Application
Published:

25 Aug 2016

Choices and alignment of interest A strange topic for a website that helps people get into college you would say! But then, this gains critical importance when the product you are going t...

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How Mentoring Helped Me Achieve My Objective?

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

06 Mar 2019

Credits to Shivangi Walia for this Blog. ‘A mentor empowers a person to see a possible future and believe it can be obtained.’ - Shawn Hitchcock It’s easier said than done, t...

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What is the difference between MIT and an average university?

Category:

Insights & Information
Published:

13 Apr 2018

A lot of my students ask me whether it really matters that they get into top schools. We all know that getting into a top college like Harvard or Stanford is extremely difficult, and addit...

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Value of Long-Term-Planning to secure an admit in Top10 Universities

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

28 Aug 2018

Most of my ‘successful’ mentees have worked extremely hard to get into colleges or career paths that they are currently at. While I have constantly talked about the value of persistence an...

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Active Forgetting

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

06 Mar 2019

Reading through an article in the Atlantic on active forgetting (How Active Forgetting Makes Memory More Efficient?), it occurred to me that the current age of cheap memory sticks and cameras in every...

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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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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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