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Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Use Social Media to Bolster Your College Application Process

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By Adam Muri-Rosenthal, Ph.D. Social media is no less ubiquitous in the college application process than everywhere else in our daily lives. Just as a potential employer may search for your name on Google…

How to Make Your COVID-19 Statement Work for You

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By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. To say that a lot has changed since March 2020 would be an understatement. I’m sitting here typing away on a flight between San Diego and Washington, DC, wearing an N-95…

The Fast Track to Physical Therapy Studies

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By Adam Muri-Rosenthal, Ph.D. As of 2020, a rule established by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) went into effect according to which a DPT (Doctor of Physical Therapy degree) would thenceforth…

Your Blueprint for Course Selection

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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…

Stress Management for High School Students

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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…

Prove How Good You Are

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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…

How to Bare Your Soul in 650 Words or Less

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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…

Can We Talk about Mental Health?

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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…

How to Write A Social Justice Essay (Even If You’re Not Political)

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By Nora Lessersohn, A.M. In the past few years, social, political, environmental, financial, and medical crises have made it abundantly clear that one’s race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity…

Pursuing Your Degree in Europe

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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…