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Your Blueprint for Course Selection

  • Distinctive College Consulting
  • Admissions
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By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. There are a few challenges I expect to face with students year in and year out. First, most students will like their Reach Schools better than their Likely Schools, and…
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Stress Management for High School Students

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  • Admissions
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By Adam Muri-Rosenthal, Ph.D. With the arrival of spring comes the honey-sweet smell of freshly budded cherry trees, the delight of extra daylight hours, and—for high school juniors—the stress of standardized…
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Prove How Good You Are

  • Distinctive College Consulting
  • Activities
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By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. Everyone should do something that makes them happy at least once a day. As The Atlantic’s happiness expert, Arthur Brooks, notes, “[T]here is plenty of evidence that…
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How to Bare Your Soul in 650 Words or Less

  • Distinctive College Consulting
  • Essays
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By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. One of my favorite writers is the master of the personal narrative, David Sedaris. He definitely knows how to open a story better than anyone else, but he also connects…
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Can We Talk about Mental Health?

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  • Admissions
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By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. As someone whose job is to help young people convey their innermost thoughts, strongest feelings, and most meaningful experiences to perfect strangers (namely admissions…
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Pursuing Your Degree in Europe

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  • Admissions
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By Adam Muri-Rosenthal, Ph.D. American students are certainly no strangers to study abroad. Prior to the pandemic, nearly 350,000 US students per year chose—whether for a week, a summer, a semester…
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