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10 Aug
2018

5 Steps to Mastering Any Admissions Interview

  • August 10, 2018
  • Distinctive College Consulting
  • 1,581 views

By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. Movies, like Mrs. Doubtfire, The Internship, Stepbrothers, and Good Will Hunting, play on our innate schadenfreude to turn stressful circumstances, like a bad interview, into comedic gold. An interviewer asks an impossible question, or an interviewee says something unbelievably ridiculous, and suddenly you’re shaking your head laughing at the poor..

29 Jan
2017

5 Hacks for Your Next Campus Visit

  • January 29, 2017
  • Distinctive College Consulting
  • 1,015 views

By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. More than a right of passage or an opportunity to test drive a college, visiting campuses is a must for the college-bound. After all, how else can you get an admissions officer to answer all of your questions, learn about a college from its surroundings to its programs, and demonstrate..

05 Jul
2016

Want a Leg Up in Admissions? Think like Forrest Gump

  • July 5, 2016
  • Distinctive College Consulting
  • 1,165 views

By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. If you could channel any movie character as you prepare for college, choose Forrest Gump. “Forrest Gump?” you might wonder. “Why Forrest Gump? He certainly wasn’t ‘smart’ in the traditional sense of the word.” Well, apart from the fact that he’s infinitely interesting (who else has run across the U.S...

09 Jul
2015

8 Ways to Get Ahead on Your College Applications This Summer

  • July 9, 2015
  • Distinctive College Consulting
  • 1,047 views

By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. This article first appeared on BuzzFeed on June 7, 2015. The sound of the ocean. The warmth of the sun. And… college applications? What? That can’t be what summer vacation is about. Yet, for rising high school seniors, that’s exactly what you need to be focusing on, that is, if..