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Focusing on Mental Health & Coping With Stress as a Student
Do all your homework. Score perfect grades on tests. Ace your essays. Make the varsity team. Complete your community service...
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Finding Volunteer Opportunities
Your school, like most, probably has some kind of service requirements to graduate. Many have a specific number of hours...
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Choosing a Major
Do well in school, go to a good college, study something useful, graduate and get a good job, make lots...
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Choosing the right high school courses for you
When you apply to college, there are a number of factors schools consider, ranging from the essay to standardized test...
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Requesting a Letter of Recommendation
The letter of recommendation is an important part of your college application—but it can be a little intimidating. It’s normal...
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Organizing Your College Applications
So you’ve refined your search and decided on a short list of colleges. Exciting! Now what? You have to actually...
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Writing Your College Essays
The college essay. A project whose mythology is much bigger than the actual project itself, one that is on the...
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Tips and Resources For Scholarship Search
Over the past several decades, tuition costs for four-year colleges and universities have outpaced wage growth and inflation. Beyond classroom...
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Starting The College Search Process
There are more than 5,300 colleges and universities in the US alone. That jaw-dropping number can make what’s already an...