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...
A lot of my students ask me whether it really matters that they get into top schools. We all know that getting into a top college like Harvard or Stanford is extremely difficult, and addit...
Studying in Trump's America: Impossible Possibility?
Over 1.5 lakh Indians pursue various educational and professional degrees in the United States of America annually. Many of them, ho...
Information was wealth. Access required assiduous effort and whoever made it and worked to develop an information arbitrage gained supernormal profits. It led to a lot of zealous gatekeepers tryi...
What would get me admitted to the Princeton University?
In the admissions of undergraduate students, Princeton admission committee like applicants who make a difference in their schools and commu...
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...
How to write a college essay that won't put the admissions committee to sleep?
In the pursuit of success, zealous aspirants have oft exchanged simple writing for convoluted and protracte...
“The future happens very slowly and then all at once,” says technology writer Kevin Kelly.
Humans have evolved from hunter-gatherer origins and are hard-wired to respond to instantaneous c...
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 ...
