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College Applying

The Critical Activities List

In the near future you are very likely to be faced with a very blank form labeled: “Activities List.” Today we’re going to talk about what you need to be doing now to prepare to fill that list in. This is a long discussion because it basically spans 4 years, so get yourself a cup […]

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College Selecting

Demonstrating Interest with Intellectual Curiosity

Today we’re going to learn an advanced technique (that is: optional!) for demonstrating interest in (pandering to) a university we want to be admitted to without leaving home, reversing that technique to find more universities to be interested in, and recording this work to make our essay writing more efficient for the next several years. […]

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College Applying

Standardized Testing and You

TLDR Getting and Using Scores Having test scores will help you find and get into a college suitable to your academic capabilities. Here’s how: Test Preparation and Plan These aptitude tests are designed to do a comprehensive examination of what you’ve learned over the past 5+ years of school and your ability to apply it […]

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Personal Practices

Perception Control & Boundary-Setting

We’re going to start some work on actively controlling how other people (in college admissions offices) initially see us and set some boundaries on how they can contact us (so they’re less able to stress us out). Set Your Current Social Media Accounts to be Private (You may have done this already.) What to do: […]

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Personal Practices

Drama Producing Truth

Part 1: Pattern, Sumbolon There is a common technique in dramatic storytelling of building the action of the story over a truth that has been hidden and fragmented. Over the course of the story, characters will encounters pieces of that hidden truth but it is only when they share their incomplete knowledge with each other […]