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February 1, 2019

How to Ace Your Alumni Interviews Part I: Before, During, and After the Interview

About the Interviewers Before we get started, here’s a brief introduction about the alumni interviewers and the role they play in your interview. Alumni interviewers are passionate about the school and love their alma mater. Ranging from recent graduates to alumni of 50+ years, they cover the spectrum in terms of majors, activities, religions, ethnicity, […]

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January 11, 2019

College Admissions: Sources of Financial Aid

One of the most daunting parts of the college application process can be the search for financial aid. The question of how you and your parents will be able to afford college can often seem to be one that can’t be answered easily. Yet by arming yourself with knowledge about the types of financial aid […]

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August 10, 2018

College Admissions Tips: 3 Reasons to Start Your Application Now!

In a lot of ways, applying to college is like going to the dentist–it’s something you know you should do, it’s something you know is good for you, and it’s something you really, really aren’t looking forward to. Which is why many high school seniors put off applying to college until the last minute, some […]

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May 11, 2018

Paying for College 101: When Financial Aid is Not Enough

One of the most stressful parts of college admissions is figuring out how to pay for the next four years. The process alone is daunting: you must fill out pages of forms and applications, complete the FAFSA and CSS PROFILE, submit tax returns for both you and your parents, and get everything sent off and […]

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March 28, 2018

5 Recommendations for Your College Application Essays

After your SAT and ACT scores and your GPA, your essays are the most important part of your college application. Why? Because they are the only part of your whole file that encompasses you and your personality entirely. Your essays let schools see how you think, what you find important, how you write, and how […]

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March 14, 2018

NCAA Basketball Bracket: The Most Affordable College

Oh, man, the flu has hit my family. As a result, I didn’t get to bed last night until 4 am. I missed work today. But I couldn’t miss out on this. I am so tired, though, that I didn’t even have the energy to put commas in the dollar figures for each of these […]

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March 13, 2018

NCAA Basketball Bracket: Largest Number of Undergrads

After my Spartans were forced yesterday to recognize Duke as national champion once again (in a bracket of head-to-head ACT and SAT scores), I wondered if there was a way to compare colleges and have MSU come out on top–or at least advance farther than Duke. Surely Michigan State has more undergraduate students than Duke, […]

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January 12, 2018

College Admission Tips: Educational Options After High School

You’re on the last leg of your high school education, about to head out on your own and take on the world. Understandably, you feel powerful. You’re finally going to live life the way you want it, and start forging your own path. Wwith great power, however, also comes great responsibility: You must now choose […]

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October 6, 2017

Admission Tips: Four Pointers for Your College Application Résumé

There are a lot of items you will need to procure or create when putting together your college applications: transcripts, teacher recommendations, and essays, to name a few. You may also have to put together and submit a résumé. Given that most high schoolers have never had to put together a résumé for anything other […]

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September 1, 2017

Admissions Tips: Letters of Recommendation from Non-Teachers

The first person everyone thinks about when they’re looking to get a letter of recommendation is a teacher. This makes perfect sense, of course–letters of recommendation for college are almost always required to address academic performance, and who better to do that than someone who has taught you in an academic subject? However, if a college […]

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