Attention High School Seniors: Make Sure You Tell Admissions This
Deadlines for college applications are right around the corner; some early deadlines may be this upcoming week while standard deadlines are coming up in December. As overwhelming and time-consuming...
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You’ve walked your graduation and are in your final summer at home before going onto college–what could be more exciting, thrilling, and terrifying? The time is so close and yet it seems like there is...
View ArticleHigh School Mentalities To Ditch In College
The days of high school have passed you by and graduation is already becoming a memory. Now’s the time to start doing a bit of soul searching, and with that comes some attitudes you’ve held over the...
View Article20 Stages of High School Graduation Emotions
So after four years behind bars classrooms, you’re finally graduating high school. You know what this means don’t you? You have to walk the walk, talk the talk, shake hands with your principal who you...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal: Take a Gap Year
Five years ago, I made a crucial mistake. I embarked on my college search, full of enthusiasm, visited campuses, wrote methodical lists of questions, and ranked schools in an Excel sheet. I thought I...
View ArticleHow to Fight Your Senioritis
Senioritis is a dreadful (hah, just kidding. Kind of) disease contracted by most high school seniors. Its onset might be hard to recognize because it starts innocently. But once the disease has taken...
View ArticleWhat I Learned When Making My Senior Year Schedule
As a senior I was busy. Actually, I was beyond busy. I had an internship, six classes – mostly AP – plus debate, volunteering, church activities, and tons of chores. Despite my weekly line up, I was...
View ArticleThe Junior’s Guide to Senior Year Course Selection
It’s about that time when the upcoming senior year has started to imprint itself upon every junior. If the feeling of impending freedom hasn’t quite made it to a classroom near you, then course...
View Article4 Reasons Why It’s Actually Easier to Be a Junior
A lot of my friends and former classmates loaded their schedules junior year in order to make their senior year light and easy. I personally didn’t go that route, but I found that many of my friends...
View ArticleHow to Ace your Scholarship Interview
It seems like College applications these days have two parts. There’s the part where you actually get into college based on your academics and merits, and the process that starts immediately after:...
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