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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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COVID 19 Impact on your Education-Abroad Plans

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

26 Mar 2020

Lives and businesses have been impacted adversely because of COVID 19, some more than others. What should your prime considerations be as you plan your immediate future? Harvard, MIT, Stanford,...

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The only two languages that a kid needs to learn today are English and AI..

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

01 May 2018

This was a comment from the exasperated parent of a school-going boy. He was already struggling having to learn 2 languages - English and Hindi, and multiple subjects like Language and Literature in b...

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