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22 Oct
2024

Controlling the Conversation with Your Additional Information Section

  • October 22, 2024
  • Distinctive College Consulting
  • 191 views

By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. Sometimes, what’s left unsaid means more than what’s spelled out. Think about how your mom or dad might prepare your favorite meal after a stressful day and let you enjoy it in peaceful silence. That quiet gesture can often show as much love and care, if not more, than asking..

05 Apr
2024

It’s a Cruel Summer… Or Is It?

  • April 5, 2024
  • Distinctive College Consulting
  • 450 views

By Adam Muri-Rosenthal, Ph.D. Child of a single working mom, Daniel has just moved from New Jersey to California where he lives in the only ramshackle apartment complex in Reseda that his mother can afford. Daniel initially hates California, but the moment he meets Ally, things start to look up… or at first they seem..

01 May
2023

Impact Projects Are the New Community Service

  • May 1, 2023
  • Distinctive College Consulting
  • 763 views

By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. In a recent conversation with a student, something bothered me about her ideas for community service. It also bothered me that something about wanting to help others was somehow problematic. As I listened to her explain that she wanted to join an organization, similar to the National Honor Society, that..

07 Apr
2022

Prove How Good You Are

  • April 7, 2022
  • Distinctive College Consulting
  • 790 views

By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. Everyone should do something that makes them happy at least once a day. As The Atlantic’s happiness expert, Arthur Brooks, notes, “[T]here is plenty of evidence that time spent daydreaming and enjoying non-work pursuits can lead to not just happiness but also better work performance and higher creativity.” Yet, not..

12 Apr
2021

How to Write The “Why This School” Essay – Part 1

  • April 12, 2021
  • Distinctive College Consulting
  • 1,377 views

By Nora Lessersohn, A.M. “It was a ____(adjective)____ and stormy night, and I was ____(adjective)____. My ____(noun)____ asked me if I wanted some ____(noun)____.” Remember MadLibs? The game where you fill in the blanks with adjectives, nouns, and verbs to make a funny story? Well, believe it or not, you can look to this childhood..

08 Jan
2021

10 Tips for “Pandemic Juniors”

  • January 8, 2021
  • Distinctive College Consulting
  • 753 views

By Nora Lessersohn Junior year is supposed to be the year you really “come into your own” as a high school student. Normally, you could excel in clubs or sports, in the classroom, and at summer programs. But this year, many of these opportunities are unavailable. So, how do you stay engaged, keep up morale,..

13 Sep
2020

Don’t Be Scared To Be Creative

  • September 13, 2020
  • Distinctive College Consulting
  • 1,070 views

By – Nora Lessersohn This admissions cycle, as COVID-19 has forced over 55% of colleges to go “test optional,” “test flexible,” or “test blind,” you will need other parts of your application to help you stand out from the crowd. With any luck, testing will soon be a thing of the past, and finding ways..

13 Jun
2020

Dear Future Seniors: Advice from the Class of 2020

  • June 13, 2020
  • Distinctive College Consulting
  • 1,332 views

By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. In June of every year, commencement speakers appear onstage to impart words of wisdom to excited and anxious graduates. Their messages are meant to fortify young people as they transition from childhood into adulthood.  While tradition holds that most students sit and listen, I thought it was important to allow..

15 Apr
2020

Volunteer… From Home!

  • April 15, 2020
  • Distinctive College Consulting
  • 11,749 views

By Nora Lessersohn and Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. As spring and summer programs are cancelled, and the world’s communities continue to suffer from the COVID-19 crisis, you may be looking for ways to spend your time and help others. Of course, most of us can’t be out contributing on the front lines. Fortunately, many organizations..

27 Mar
2020

Admissions in the Age of Covid-19

  • March 27, 2020
  • Distinctive College Consulting
  • 1,061 views

By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. The arrival of Covid-19 has disrupted education in a way that we have never experienced before. While the impact of the pandemic on your high school education, admissions prospects, and financial aid packages is nowhere close to being known, we are providing you with information that we do have as..