Month: October 2018

Your resume will be the first thing employers, colleges, and interviewers see about you. Learn how to format and write a resume with strong and impactful descriptions. Listen till the end for an update in Dominic’s college list drama.

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Your Resume: What to Put In, What to Leave Out

Resumes With Impact: Creating Strong Bullet Points

College Resume Outline and Template

Princeton Review: College Resume Tips

Internship Resume Tips

UT Austin Example Expanded Resume

Sorry About the Calendar- Too Much Classified Information

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Choosing your major may seem like the most daunting decision you need to make. It seems to ask you to determine your entire life with one checkbox. In reality, it’s not that complicated at all. Just choose what you are interested in. In most cases, the major you choose doesn’t close off opportunities, just opens up more specific ones. Tune in for our advice.

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Yale Admission Officer’s Essay

Difference Between Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts

The Rise of the M.D./M.B.A. Degree

Does Major Have An Effect on Your Chance of Admission?

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The University of Chicago has some of the weirdest and wackiest supplemental essay prompts of any university we’ve seen. In this episode, we analyze each one and give some of the first ideas that come to our mind. We talk through the general processes that you should use to generate ideas, from simplifying the prompt, thinking about your narrative, to having no filter. At the end, Michael shares his UChicago essay that he thought was amazing but that some admissions officer clearly didn’t.

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Episode 7: The Supplemental Essay – Boosting Your Application to the Max

UChicago Word Count “Limits”

2018-2019 UChicago Supplement Essay Prompts and Previous Prompts

Other Tips on How to Write the UChicago Supplement Essays:

CollegeVine Article

College Essay Advisors Article

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Everyone knows that by November 1 and January 1, Common Applications need to be sent. What else? We share some other items that are often forgotten but are very important like a schedule, recommendation letters, test scores, transcripts, essays, scholarships, financial aid, and more.

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October 2nd School Day ACT Cancelled

How to Send SAT Scores

How to Send ACT Scores

FAFSA

CSS Profile

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