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Helpful tips about college admissions, test preparation and just being a better student, leader and person from ILUMIN Education.
Now that it's August, summer is drawing to a close, and the brand new school year is slowly approaching. While there's no need for students to stress about their incoming courseload and extracurriculars just yet, there are certainly some simple ways students can prepare themselves for the new year!
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Read MoreGood 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 MoreWe'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 MoreWe are excited to welcome Joshua Del Mundo to the ILUMIN consulting team!
Read MoreHi 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 MoreThis 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 MoreWe asked Kyra Jee five questions to help you get to know her better.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreChances 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.
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