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Financial Aid: Transfer Credit

When is Merit Financial Aid not listed as financial aid? When it’s the Registrar awarding you Transfer Credits for your AP/IB test scores or Dual Enrollment course grades. These will not be showing up on your financial aid letter, but transfer credits can reduce the total money (and time) you are investing in your undergraduate […]

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Beginning Your College List

TLDR Heartfelt Warm-Up First, get a pen and a piece of paper. Now: Let’s not talk about college for a moment. I want you to think of a social event, a party, something big enough where you must go with friends. So visualize something you’re aiming to go to, whether it’s like Prom or Coachella, […]

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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. […]