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COVID - 19: Education plans in the time of Coronavirus

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

27 Apr 2020

Reactionary response vs long term strategy These days, as we try to stay patient and hopeful while dealing with the Coronavirus pandemic and its associated lockdown and self-isolation, there is...

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Getting into MIT is much tougher than getting into IITs

Category:

Insights & Information
Published:

12 Apr 2018

Lot of students are under the impression that getting into a US program is easy. As opposed to rigorous selection-based pathways like Engineering at IITs, MBBS, or MBA/PGDM from II...

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How to give a great College Interview

Category:

Insights & Information
Published:

22 Mar 2020

Interviews for college admissions can be stressful. It’s the last lap, you feel you’re running out of steam, but hold on. There’s hope yet. The mantra for a great interview is simple...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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