How Effective Are Your Study Habits?
Study Habits It’s the start of a new school year, and the perfect time to start building good and effective study habits that will serve you all year long. Ready to evaluate your study skills? Test yourself and see where you can improve!
4 Simple Brain Hacks to (Actually) Reach Your Goals
There’s psychology to help with that! Let’s talk about a few brain hacks to reach your goals.
How to Get a College Acceptance Fast
Plenty of students may be relieved to know: if you’re looking to end the wait and get a college acceptance fast, consider this alternative!
When Safety Schools Aren’t Safety Schools
As the field becomes more competitive across the board, at what point can we no longer consider mainstay safety schools as near-guaranteed acceptances?
Essay Scoop: How to Answer CalTech Essays
Want to know how to crack the CalTech essays and present your best self to the admissions committee? In this post, we’ll go through each prompt.
Your Survival Guide to Self-Started Activities
If you do decide to strike out on your own with self-started activities, we have some advice to help you on your way.Â
Free College? It’s More Likely Than You Might Think
For most students, college is expensive.Â
Each year, the costs of attending rise, and show no signs of slowing. Between tuition, textbooks, lab materials, and room and board—”the path to a diploma exacts a large price. Yet degrees remain highly in demand. Families are asking: how can we afford it?Â
What Should I Write for Optional Essays?
Picture this: college app deadlines are looming and you’re hard at work on your applications. You’ve compiled and narrowed down a college list, made a strategy for presenting your extracurriculars, and started brainstorming and drafting your essays. Good for you! On top of all this work, you notice that a few of your applications allow for that perplexing, dark horse component: the optional essay.Â
How to Pick a College: Part 1 Campus Vibe
You’ve likely managed a mental list of the pros and cons and been swayed a bit by relatives and teachers extending their congratulations (and their not-so-secret support for X University). What you think is important now may not hold true down in a couple months, so the best strategy should be introspective and compare distinct opportunities. With your college list in mind how do you start on the college decision?
