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Category:

Admission Application
Published:

20 Feb 2020

It’s almost spring. And traditionally, spring brings with it, hope. Students across the world wait at this time for college admission decisions to roll in. At Christmas, the Early D...

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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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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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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 Top-Universities are Responding to Rising Interest in Cryptocurrencies

Category:

Insights & Information
Published:

11 Sep 2018

If you know any young person or even read the newspapers, you would have heard about cryptocurrency and the promise of quick wealth by investing in Bitcoin or Ripple – the two more famous of the...

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The SATs and ACTs are Cancelled

Category:

Admission Application
Published:

07 Apr 2020

The SATS are cancelled Reports around the world inform us that all schools and communities have been impacted by the pandemic of COVID-19. The SAT’s and ACT’s too have cancelled their exam...

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Peer Pressure in the context of Education Options

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

25 Jan 2018

“I want to join XYZ classes, BECAUSE my friends also go there” Man is a social animal. Therefore, he is always trying to belong. Countries, states, villages, homes – any social unit-...

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Scientific Approach to Application Preparation

Category:

Admission Application
Published:

06 Mar 2019

American psychologist and psychometrician, Robert J Sternberg's came up with the triarchic theory of intelligence suggesting that there are three kinds of intelligence: Componential intelligenc...

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Why does the application process have SO MANY requirements?

Category:

Admission Application
Published:

08 Aug 2020

Elements of an application While applying to a college, especially overseas, the application process could seem long and complicated. It always has many components - and often students and parents spe...

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