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How To Write The Cornell University Supplemental Essays (2021-2022)

Working on your Cornell application? Here’s how to write the Cornell supplemental essays you need to complete in addition to your Common Application.   Welcome to the Cornell supplement for the 2021-2022 application cycle! For Cornell, you only need to write one supplemental essay, but it’s a rather long one.

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The Ultimate Summer Guide for Rising Seniors

Wondering how to spend your last summer of high school?  Hoping to maximize your chances of admission to great colleges in the fall?  Read on! Here are our top tips for rising seniors. Focus Your Extracurriculars When it comes to extracurriculars, the rule is quality over quantity.  You want to

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Why Your Extracurriculars May Not Help You Get Into College

We’ve all heard horror stories about brilliant kids—straight As, perfect test scores—who were rejected from nearly every school on their college list. I recently started working on transfer applications with a student who’d been waitlisted, and then rejected at a number of top-20 universities, including Harvard and Yale. She’d only

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Interested In Pre-Med? Don’t Intern At A Hospital.

If you’re hoping to pursue a career in medicine, and if you’re still in high school, the first step is to start thinking about college. Now is the time to start researching what you can do in high school to prepare for a pre-med track in college. Our Ivy League

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How To Write A Resume For Grad School

Applying to graduate programs?  Chances are, you’ll need to submit a resume with your application.  Maybe you already have a resume, or maybe this is the first time you’re putting one together—either way, writing a graduate school resume is a specific exercise. Make sure to check and see if any

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Last-Minute Strategies For Ivy League Applications

Article originally published on Forbes.com College application deadlines are just around the corner. At this point, high school seniors have already done just about all of the heavy lifting: they’ve worked for the past three and half years to build strong academic transcripts and impressive lists of extracurricular activities, and

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3 Tips For Beginning Your College Essay

The college essay is the hardest part of the application process. For many students, it’s difficult to get going: they feel pressured to sum up everything they’ve accomplished, everything they are, in 650 words—so where to begin? And, for many students, it can be just as difficult to conclude: how

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5 College Essay FAQs

You’ve probably heard that it’s a bad idea to write your college application essay about world peace, a sports game (or sports in general), a trip, the death of your pet rabbit, and so on. The truth is that no topic is 100% off limits. Students have gotten into Harvard

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