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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..

22 Oct
2024

The Neurodiversity Perspective

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

By Adam Muri-Rosenthal, Ph.D. This one’s personal for me. While I’ve never hidden my own neurodiversity, I’ve also never before addressed it in a public forum like this one. But part of my neurodiversity has been a guileless—at times appreciated by some as honest and direct, at others derided as naive—willingness to open up to..

22 Oct
2024

A Beautiful (Organized) Mind

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

By Adrian Cho, Ph.D. “All the noise in my brain. I clamp it to the page so it will be still.” –Barbara Kingsolver When I was in high school, I didn’t keep any notes. In my youthful arrogance, I believed that I could keep everything in my head, and no parent or teacher was going..

22 Oct
2024

Five Ways to Elevate Your Application Essays

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

By Caroline Matas, Ph.D. As the first wave of college application deadlines looms, high school seniors around the country are starting to feel the pressure. With so many supplemental essays to keep track of–not to mention the big personal statement essay to tackle–it might feel like the best you can do is just knock out..

21 Jul
2024

Goodbye Legacy Admissions? The Slow March Towards Change

  • July 21, 2024
  • Distinctive College Consulting
  • 485 views

By Adrian Cho, Ph.D. On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court overturned Affirmative Action in two joint opinions in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, and SFFA v. University of North Carolina. The decision upended the long-standing practice of considering race in college admissions. While the rollback of Affirmative..

21 Jul
2024

Killing Your Darlings

  • July 21, 2024
  • Distinctive College Consulting
  • 316 views

By Adam Muri-Rosenthal, Ph.D. If you here require a practical rule of me, I will present you with this: ‘Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.’ – Arthur Quiller-Couch, British Literary Critic Increase the font size,..

18 Apr
2024

The 10 Commandments of Being Online

  • April 18, 2024
  • Distinctive College Consulting
  • 474 views

By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. I have seen it all – alcohol, curse words, even boobs. This is just a sampling of what has turned up on spur-of-the-moment requests to see my students’ social media accounts. Granted, many of you now have finsta accounts rather than just one Instagram profile, and you’re certainly more savvy..

11 Apr
2024
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What Really Matters Most to Colleges

  • April 11, 2024
  • Distinctive College Consulting
  • 681 views

By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. Several years ago, the mom of one of my students expressed her frustration that no one before me told her that her son’s transcript was going to be the most important part of his college application process. She had hoped that his stellar SAT score would more than compensate for..

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..