With summer comes warmer weather, a freer schedule, and significantly less academic and extracurricular obligations. It’s no wonder that it can be difficult to muster up the motivation to be productive over summer break! Still, making the most of summer is crucial for students preparing for college applications. Here are some of our tips for staying productive this summer:
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Today we're talking about college essays. I’m glad that we're able to highlight something new: something that students are starting… hopefully soon – and giving you an idea of how to get started here.
I'm joined by Katie and Lindsey today, who will be our guides throughout this process. Katie, do you want to introduce yourself, and then Lindsey?
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As your student builds their college list and researches different schools, they will find that many schools fall under one of two categories: liberal arts colleges and large research universities. For STEM students, it may seem obvious that research universities are the way to go – but that isn’t necessarily the case!
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We're tackling a pretty interesting topic tonight – because now that summer's here (happy June!) we're going to look back at this past 2022-2023 admissions cycle, and talk through some of the trends we've been seeing in college admissions.
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Is your student interested in majoring in art or creative writing? Do they have their summer plans in place yet? Summer is a crucial time for students, who can use this time outside of school hours to get insight into their field of interest and build proof of demonstrated interest for their major.
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Hi everybody, good to have you on for our next installment of our ILUMIN webinar series. I’m excited to have Jack Wang on our show today.
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Summer is a crucial time for students, who can use this time outside of school hours to get insight into their field of interest and build proof of demonstrated interest for their major.
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Good evening, everyone! We have a very exciting topic today for a lot of our rising seniors (current juniors) – and maybe some younger students to start thinking about – the college list process: what schools they should be looking at when they're thinking about the admissions process.
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Students do a lot of self-advocating in their college applications, but colleges also value hearing what others have to say about an applicant. This is where teacher recommendation letters come into play.
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Thanks for joining us tonight on another part of our webinar series. We’re talking about early decision early action today – as a lot of our juniors (soon to be rising seniors) are about to be planning their college lists, and thinking about which schools they might want to do an early application for.
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