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Self concept and University applications

Category:

Admission Application
Published:

21 Nov 2018

The concept of self-knowledge has been prevalent in the old Eastern philosophy as an integral part of higher education. Expertise in any domain at the highest levels was complete only w...

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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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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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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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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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Study Abroad - Differentiation in the era of COVID19

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

20 Apr 2020

Study Abroad - How can I differentiate myself in the post-COVID 19 era Differentiation is a difficult beast to tame, even in the easiest of times! It is like running on a treadmill - you have t...

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MBA Application Preparation – How do I go about it?

Category:

Admission Application
Published:

25 Jul 2018

MBA applications are a hard nut to crack. And with acceptance rates for top schools for highly visible demographics like Indians, Chinese and South Koreans running into very low single digits (like 1-...

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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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