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Welcome to your senior year. It’s an exciting time full of change and celebration. Many people have probably told you how unimportant your senior year is. For example, they maybe told you that your grades don’t matter one iota, although usually you should do better in the first semester than the second. Or maybe they told you that colleges will not look at your grades from senior year because they already have accepted you based on your 9th-11th years.  Well, my young, goal-oriented high schooler, THESE ARE LIES. Your senior year counts. Not only does your senior year count towards your high school graduation, it counts towards the trend that you have worked so hard to set over the past three years and that you promised you would continue to achieve when you applied to college. (more…)

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College applications. Two words guaranteed to strike fear and anxiety into the heart of every high school senior. All the information, dates and pressure are enough to drive you crazy. As someone who’s been there and done that, every student should follow this list of college application tips to help you stay sane:

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If you’ve decided to resume school after time off, than there’s no reason to be afraid of the admission process. If you’re a transfer student, a mom, a worker bee, a veteran…it doesn’t matter, the school application process is not as demanding as you would think and can be done with ease.

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When I began applying for graduate schools, I had the admission process down to a science. Well, maybe, not a science because I was never good at science…so more of down to an easy process. I had already gotten my undergrad U to send out my transcripts before, so I was familiar with the process (a simple online request form). And my personal essay only took me an hour or so as I had decided I write more of a creative piece (part poem/part dream/goal essay). And then, there was the recommendations. I had a former employer who agreed to help me out. A friend of the family and a mentor from my school days.

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Trying to get admitted to school can cause your nerves to fry. The process can be a bit tortuous. There are recommendation letters to collect, personal essays to write not to mention assembling a resume and getting transcripts. The process can be tense but it doesn’t have to be. For those in need of some “admission therapy” there are some tips and tricks that will make the process much less painful.

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