How to Determine Good Fit Schools
Elton Lin
What does it mean for a school to be a good fit for an individual student?
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Helpful tips about college admissions, test preparation and just being a better student, leader and person from ILUMIN Education.
Webinar Transcript: College Essay Series: Supplemental Essays
Elton Lin
Good evening, everyone. I’m glad everyone could make it today. This will be the last of our essay series [this year] for webinars – and [of] giving students a sneak peek of topics to come. Hopefully, you've started already. Hopefully, you're finding time to chip away at your essays. (If not, and you're watching this in the fall… good luck to you as well!)
Read MoreWebinar Transcript: College Essay Series: Live Essay Edit
Elton Lin
We're presenting a topic that I think is relevant for a lot of our seniors right now: thinking about how to tackle the essays. How to improve their essays, I think, is a big thing. If you've already started it, you'll be in really good shape if you're already thinking about the next steps of how to make adjustments.
Read MoreIntroducing ILUMIN Education's New Educational Consultant: Joshua Del Mundo
Elton Lin
We are excited to welcome Joshua Del Mundo to the ILUMIN consulting team!
Read MoreWebinar Transcript: College Essay Series: Crafting Your Personal Statement
Elton Lin
Hi everyone, welcome. Thanks for joining us tonight. We have another exciting topic lined up for you today. You guys have probably all heard about the Common App – pretty big application platform! Over 1,000 colleges will accept the Common App.
Read MoreWebinar Transcript: College Essay Series: UC PIQs
Elton Lin
This evening we'll start getting into the college essay specifics: starting with the University of California “Personal Insight Questions,” or the UC PIQs. These UC essay prompts stand apart from others out there and require a different approach – and that is exactly what we'll be covering today.
Read More5 Questions for Kyra Jee
Elton Lin
We asked Kyra Jee five questions to help you get to know her better.
Read MoreWhat Does the Supreme Court’s Ruling Against Affirmative Action Mean for Your Student?
Elton Lin
The status of affirmative action in college admissions, or admission policies that consider the race of applicants in order to admit more students of underrepresented and historically-discriminated groups into higher education, has been in question for years
Read MoreWhy ChatGPT Won’t Help You Write Your Perfect College Essay
Elton Lin
Chances are good that you’ve heard people wondering how ChatGPT-influenced essays will affect the college admissions process. It’s guaranteed that the available resources — everything from the advancement of AI to official guidelines from the universities themselves — will always turn over new updates for the most effective strategies. As for now, we’ve experimented with different ways that using ChatGPT can benefit or harm a student’s college application essays.
Read MoreWebinar Transcript: College Essay Series: Intro to WRITE! Workshops
Elton Lin
Thanks for joining this evening for the second installment of our college essay webinar series. We've got an exciting topic planned for tonight: our WRITE! workshops, which will be starting this July, and how these workshops can help your student get a strong and effective head start on their college essays.
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