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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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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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What to write in your College Resume / Student CV

Category:

Admission Application
Published:

31 Jul 2020

You might wonder, while writing your CV, “How can I fit all my details and accomplishments into a single page?” The aim of the Resume is to create a snapshot of you, the Candidate. I...

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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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Pygmalion effect in Mentoring/ Admission Counselling

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

31 Jul 2019

The Pygmalion effect is the phenomenon whereby others' expectations of a target person affect the target person's performance. A corollary of the Pygmalion effect is the golem effect, in which low ex...

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Getting into MIT is much tougher than getting into IITs

Category:

Insights & Information
Published:

12 Apr 2018

Lot of students are under the impression that getting into a US program is easy. As opposed to rigorous selection-based pathways like Engineering at IITs, MBBS, or MBA/PGDM from II...

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MBA Applications: The Right Time

Category:

Admission Application
Published:

17 Sep 2020

September 15th onwards, prospective MBA candidates heave a collective sigh of relief. Why, you many wonder. This date marks the beginning of the end of Round 1 of admissions for most of the prestigiou...

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The Power of Narrative in the context of your Admission Application

Category:

Admission Application
Published:

13 Aug 2018

Consider the following Examples – A “While reviewing my science project in the 8th grade, my father, upon seeing my half-hearted attempt, told me, “Every job is a...

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Impact on Indians as UK lifts cap on PhD-level work Visas..

Category:

Insights & Information
Published:

18 Mar 2019

On Wednesday, March 13, 2019, UK Chancellor Philip Hammond said that from later this year, highly qualified roles will be exempt from any visa restrictions. This implies that Ph-D level roles will be ...

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