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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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Teamwork between Parents and Kids to Write College Admission Applications

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

08 Jul 2019

Information was wealth. Access required assiduous effort and whoever made it and worked to develop an information arbitrage gained supernormal profits. It led to a lot of zealous gatekeepers tryi...

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Study Abroad - Notes for students during the COVID pandemic

Category:

Insights & Information
Published:

27 Apr 2020

While the whole world is reeling under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences, it is students who are affected immensely. A student is someone who is in the midst of his mo...

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How to Make a College List

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

20 Apr 2020

How to create a college list to study abroad? Step 1: Gather your scores: ACT, SAT1 Step 2: Get your desired college names together, including college ranking. Step 3: Get the average sco...

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In Short - how to answer "short questions"

Category:

Admission Application
Published:

15 Jan 2020

UG application freshman admission applications Towards the end of the application form for UG admissions, certain admission applications contain some questions which require short answers. For ...

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Recalibrating Academics for changing times

Category:

Insights & Information
Published:

03 Jun 2020

Will colleges and universities return to standardised tests like SATs? How can you apply for your overseas education if exams and tests have been cancelled? If you claim to be the future,...

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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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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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