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ILUMIN Blog

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Webinar Transcript: Live Q&A with Northeastern Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions

Tony Flores

Welcome everyone. Thanks for joining us today. It’s really great to have everyone again. I know it's been a while since we've had a webinar, but we’re really glad that Olivia Harris could join us today from Northeastern University admissions.

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Webinar Transcript: Featuring UChicago: A Conversation With Undergraduate Students & Alumni

Elton Lin

Welcome to everybody who's joining us on our webinar series. Before we get started, go on to the chat, and we always like hearing where people are calling in from. For our webinar series we've had people from like all over the United States, all over the world, all over everywhere!

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Webinar Transcript: Featuring UC Berkeley: A Conversation with Undergraduate Students

Elton Lin

We had the privilege of sitting down recently a panel of students from UC Berkeley today. It seems there are a lot of misconceptions about UC Berkeley – which we feel like these four students are eager to dispel!

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Webinar Transcript: College Essay Series: Crafting Your Personal Statement For The Common Application

Elton Lin

Today we’re talking about the personal statement, but you might also be looking at the UC questions, since that's a place where we like to point students to start off first. But today we'll give you a crash course about the personal statement, how you're gonna pick your prompt. You're gonna work out of seven.

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Webinar Transcript: Featuring UIUC: A Conversation with Students and Alumni

Elton Lin

We've got a special treat again: featuring our students from UIUC. As students are winding down their college lists, we wanted to highlight UIUC to make sure you guys get a chance to ask any questions to current and former students here.

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Webinar Transcript: Featuring Northeastern: A Conversation with Undergraduate Students

Elton Lin

We are continuing our ILUMIN Education webinar series – and this is the first time that we're having students come and share about their experiences, and their time at specific universities. This week's panel is from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

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JOIN THE 2020 ILUMIN CASE COMPETITION

Tony Flores

Our case competition will take place virtually from July 25, 2020 to August 1, 2020. Any high school student may join. The competition is free, but sign up quickly as there are a limited number of spots. For more information, check out our FAQ.

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CONGRATS TO OUR 2020 ADMITS!

Elton Lin

Congrats to our latest ILUMIN seniors on graduation and their college admissions results! We’re incredibly blessed to have seen you grow and mature during our time with you.

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ILUMIN STUDENTS START FREE TUTORING PROGRAM TO HELP FAMILIES IN NEED DURING THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK

Elton Lin

It’s a distressing time in the world today but it’s also encouraging to see people find ways to support each other in their own unique ways.

Three of our ILUMIN students decided to do something to address the needs they saw in their communities and started an amazing organization called Quarantutors!

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SOME ADVICE TO INCOMING HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMAN

Elton Lin

>>> A letter from one of our recent ILUMIN graduates!

You have finally made it to high school!

It may seem daunting; trust me, it was for me too. Freshman year, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I thought I was going to become an engineer like my parents and follow the predictable Silicon Valley route - this makes me laugh because there is no way I would want to be an engineer now!

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