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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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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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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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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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How to Accept the Right Offer

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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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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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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The importance of your Profile in the year to come

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

09 Apr 2021

Thirteen months and counting since the pandemic began, with no end in sight, chaos in the economy amongst lockdowns - and uncertainty and fatigue in the academic world. These are not words one would h...

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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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