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Best extra-curricular activities for college admission for Indian students

Category:

Admission Application
Published:

24 Jan 2025

Why Extracurricular Activities are important? Extracurricular activities make up 25-30% of your college application and are crucial for helping you stand out beyond academics. They highlight key qual...

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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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Profile Building Activities for when you are Home

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

11 Apr 2020

What activities can we do sitting from home for profile building When you are in the midst of preparing for college admissions, The Great Pause, a.k.a the COVID lockdown could come as a shocker...

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Mentoring Vs Counseling - A Practitioners Perspective

Category:

Insights & Information
Published:

11 Sep 2024

While some words might seem interchangeable, they carry distinct meanings and contexts . As a practicing mentor, guiding students through their application process, it's crucial to differentiate betwe...

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Build Your Personal Networks for Educational and Professional Success

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

10 Sep 2018

“The future happens very slowly and then all at once,” says technology writer Kevin Kelly. Humans have evolved from hunter-gatherer origins and are hard-wired to respond to instantaneous c...

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How to make a compelling College Resume / Student CV

Category:

Admission Application
Published:

30 Jul 2020

As discussed, there are many contributors to the admission process, and each one is of immense importance. None so much as the college resume. Consider this the equivalent of your first impression. An...

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Future Jobs – Man Machine

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

12 Nov 2018

A news article in 2018 about an auction at Christie’s of a painting called Portrait of Edmond Belamy caught my eye. This painting sold for about $432,500, about 43 times its reserve price. So, w...

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Mentoring Model for Students of Grade IX, X and XI

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

31 Jan 2018

The most successful students who have been able to get into some of the best colleges in the world have consistently spent more time on getting ready for those educational programs. They start out ear...

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Critique of David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell

Category:

Insights & Information
Published:

15 Feb 2018

Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book, David and Goliath, like his previous others, is a riveting read. Like always, his assertions are backed by research, compelling evid...

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