In some cultures, building a personal brand is considered an anathema. Something that is really frowned upon. But the Generation Z does not really think that ways. A recent survey highlighted that I...
We have talked about the power of story-telling in building your admission application extensively. In here, we shall detail out the narrative building section and anchor it for a typical US applicati...
Summer Programs = Explore
The concept of summer school is fantastic as it allows the kid to explore and learn. It is more like a seminal enriching experience of life. In our opinion a student should s...
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...
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...
Students often ask me whether they would be able to get into a top-notch college. My answer to this is a short ‘Yes.’
If a student believes in herself and work hard towards her admission, ...
This girl was not a genius – she had to work extremely hard to make her creations come alive. She was not a creative genius who would lift a brush and paintings would come out. In fact, for the ...
Doesn’t everyone want that? Not just the students, but the parents as well. As a result, students work to the limits of their capacity, often spending the night burning the midnight oil, and pus...
The short answer is “doing the things you like really well, and then being smart in presenting your case”. Actually, you do not prepare to get into a top school, you prepare to b...
