Blog – College Dollars and Sense – Page 9

An Ivy Is Not for You If….

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By – Victoria Tillson Evans Time and again, students insist that they want to go a top-tier college. The prestige has a way of luring many to apply. While thousands of students have the academic credentials…

How to Get Better Grades in Less Time

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By Paul Rivas, Study Skills Specialist at SMITH RIVAS Study Skills & Academic coaching. Middle school through grad school, figuring out how to earn better grades in less time is the key to thriving…

It’s Not Just a Letter, It’s a Relationship: Overcoming the Anxiety of Asking for a Letter of Recommendation

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By Robert Yates I recently spoke with a student who was unsure of how to ask a teacher for a letter of recommendation. This anxiety is common, but it can be alleviated by understanding that the strongest…

How to Get an Internship

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By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. Each year, more and more students are asking about how to get a summer internship. While these opportunities are frequently competitive, they’re worth shooting for if…

Dissimulations, Half Truths, and Outright Lies

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By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. There’s a new arms race, and you’re caught in the middle. It’s obviously no longer the Cold War. Instead, it’s the college admissions war. Nearly all colleges are…

First Impress, Then Persuade

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By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. A student recently asked me, “When are we getting to my essays?” She was clearly tired of discussing her activities. This wasn’t the first time I’ve heard this…

5 Steps to Mastering Any Admissions Interview

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By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. Movies, like Mrs. Doubtfire, The Internship, Stepbrothers, and Good Will Hunting, play on our innate schadenfreude to turn stressful circumstances, like a bad interview…

The Examined Life: Your Personal Statement (Part 2)

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By Nora Lessersohn, Ph.D. In the first part of our two-part look at tackling the personal statement, we discussed the brainstorming process. If you haven’t read that yet, check it out here. In this post…

4 Tips on What To Do When Admissions Rates Drop

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By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. Boston College, down 5 points to 27% BU, down 3 points to 22%. Emory, down 3.5 points to 18.5% Harvard, down .62 points to 4.58% Tulane, down 3.5 points to 17.5% UCLA…

The Examined Life: Your Personal Statement (Part 1)

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By – Nora Lessersohn “The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates While we probably shouldn’t take this statement as literally as Socrates did, it can help us think about how to tackle…