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College Preparation Basics

College Preparation for Seniors

Your Senior year of high school will be spent with one foot in the future and your other foot in the past, actively trying to build the bridge between them. It will be stressful, but it should not actually be difficult. After ensuring you are caught up on the preparatory process, you will need to […]

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College Preparation Basics

College Preparation for Juniors

Junior year is often more stressful than Senior year: 11th grade is when you set everything up, Senior year is when it falls into place. Going into 11th grade, students need to ensure that their transcript is coming together for their college ambitions, refine extracurricular engagements from exploring vague interests down to a coherent set of impact-focused activities, […]

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College Selecting

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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Personal Practices

Self-Soothing Cheat Sheet

“The trick is to keep breathing.” –Shirley Manson That is a box-breathing diagram and it works very well for me, I’ve had it for at least a decade. Additionally, I can suggest these supplementals: Hopefully you’ve now got a few non-doomscrolling techniques for slowing down bad stimuli that might be disrupting what your brain knows […]

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College Applying

Deciding Early on Early Decision

The job of college admissions is to accept enough applications from prospective students that the university will have an entire class cohort each and every year. Nothing frustrates admissions folks quite so much as losing a particularly well-qualified student to a competing university. Universities use “Early Decision” admittance to surface their best prospects and manage […]