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What Do You Really Care About?

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By Adam Muri-Rosenthal, Ph.D. No college information session would be complete without a colorful Powerpoint peppered with grandiose value statements. Diversity! Sustainability! Intellectual excellence…

Could ChatGPT Write Your College Essays?

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By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. Perhaps you’ve heard of ChatGPT. Introduced in November 2022, it has been one of the greatest disruptions to our sense of selves as human beings in history. Its ability…

Big Fish or Little Fish? The Conundrum of Attending a Magnet School

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By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. In one of my favorite episodes of The Simpsons, “Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade,” Bart and Lisa are both moved into the third grade. Bart moves down from fourth…

Admissions Is in the Details

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By Dr. Adam Muri-Rosenthal, Ph.D. Allow me to begin this post with a vast understatement completely belying its content: writing college essays is hard. As I repeatedly find myself telling students, the…

Strategies to Manage Colleges’ Low Acceptance Rates

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By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. Many people sent me a copy of the Wall Street Journal article, “To Get into the Ivy League, ‘Extraordinary’ Isn’t Always Enough,” the day it came out. I obviously…

Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Use Social Media to Bolster Your College Application Process

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By Adam Muri-Rosenthal, Ph.D. Social media is no less ubiquitous in the college application process than everywhere else in our daily lives. Just as a potential employer may search for your name on Google…

How to Make Your COVID-19 Statement Work for You

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By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. To say that a lot has changed since March 2020 would be an understatement. I’m sitting here typing away on a flight between San Diego and Washington, DC, wearing an N-95…

The Fast Track to Physical Therapy Studies

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By Adam Muri-Rosenthal, Ph.D. As of 2020, a rule established by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) went into effect according to which a DPT (Doctor of Physical Therapy degree) would thenceforth…

Your Blueprint for Course Selection

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By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. There are a few challenges I expect to face with students year in and year out. First, most students will like their Reach Schools better than their Likely Schools, and…

Stress Management for High School Students

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By Adam Muri-Rosenthal, Ph.D. With the arrival of spring comes the honey-sweet smell of freshly budded cherry trees, the delight of extra daylight hours, and—for high school juniors—the stress of standardized…