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The College Student Blog gives practical, useful advice and tips to prospective and new college students. Topics include the pre-college process of admissions, financing, loans, browsing, and selection.
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Common Application
Overview The Common Application (Common App) is quite a useful tool in your college admission process. It allows you to apply to 315 colleges with the use of only 1 application. That means instead of writing 315+ different essays, its 1 or 2. In my o...
How To: Admissions Essays
Importance of Essays If you are simply wondering how important your admissions essays are in regards to the holistic application process, please read my last post. Also as stated in my last post, I will not be going into minute detail about writing y...
Admissions Essays
What Are Admissions Essays? As the name suggests, admissions essays are one of many criteria that colleges use to accept or deny applicants. Many colleges require a “personal statement” and a “professional statement.” Persona...
The SAT - An Overview
SAT Introduction The SAT is becoming more and more like the ACT in regards to style and question variety. In 2005, the University of California’s president stated that the SAT should be abolished as an admissions requirement. This threat sent t...
More Testing - ACT & SAT
Parker vs. Standardized Testing I loathe standardized testing. In reflection on my experiences as a test taker, I reaffirmed the notion that standardized testing is nearly worthless. Standardized testing such as the ACT and SAT are becoming continual...
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