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The summer has always been an essential time of year for college-minded students, as this well-deserved break gives students the perfect opportunity to pursue activities or interests without the stress and clamor of the academic year.
Read MoreHere are seven key steps to mastering time management and some accompanying online tools to help you succeed.
Read MoreWhen it comes to volunteering, it’s never a question of if you should volunteer; rather, it’s a question of when and how. Do colleges actually care about volunteering? Yes! And you should too—not just because colleges care, but because you’re giving back to the community. Only good things come from volunteering, whether that's social good, the betterment of other people's lives, or personal fulfillment, so colleges hold applicants' volunteering efforts in high esteem.
Read MoreFor high school students with a practical passion in business and finance, it can be difficult to gain experience and develop skills in a learning environment before taking the daunting leap into a startup, an internship, or even an actual job. Classroom settings rarely offer you this chance either, often sticking to conceptual learning, and even hands-on assignments lack a certain real-world application that working for an actual business would offer. Where, then, can students interested in business go to polish their skills and feel what it’s like to present project ideas or run financial simulations? The solution: business competitions.
Read MoreMany ninth grade students are already a few months into their high school career. Now that students have had time to feel out the differences that a high school environment brings—maybe they’re probing different social spheres, or navigating the larger class sizes and workload—it’s time to look forward and consider the first steps in your student’s college-focused four year plan.
Read MoreStudents with a passion in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) work tirelessly in classes, but it can be difficult for STEM students to take their knowledge beyond the classroom to show colleges their proficiency in ways other than a letter grade.
Read MoreWe’re excited to introduce Kelli Gerrans, an admissions counselor at Pepperdine University and the school’s Northern California representative, so those of you who are interested in Pepperdine University will definitely want to connect with Kelli.
Read MoreILUMIN Education is partnering with Junior Achievement of Northern California to host a 12-week entrepreneurship workshop and incubator for aspiring teen entrepreneurs.
Read MoreFor many high school students, fall semester has already started. Granted, school may look and feel different for many students this year, but over the next few weeks, we’ll be highlighting some steps that high school students should be taking to prepare themselves for a strong start to the school year, as well as ways that students can set themselves up for strong admissions results in their senior year.
Read MoreWe had the privilege of having Tom Fanning, Case Western Reserve University Senior Associate Director of Admissions, join us in a webinar Q&A a few weeks ago to talk about the upcoming changes to admissions and the unique challenges of higher education in the years ahead.
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