December 2011

Merry Christmas

December 24, 2011

Seasons Greetings to All! I’d been feeling the holidays, stuffing myself and going through the different ways spice up this Christmas. Here’s one of my favorite. Twas the night before Christmas, when all through Wall Street, Not a guru was stirring, ‘mongst the trading elite. The stocks were all laid on the exchange floor with [...]

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Curated Interview From College Admission Officers (From Reddit’s IAmA)

December 15, 2011

As requested, IAmA college admissions officer, AMA. What are the qualities you look for the most in an applicant? Do they need to be smart, artsy, quirky, or all of the above? At my school, we do consider consider how a prospective applicant would fit in with the rest of the student body. Generally, this [...]

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Getting Your Teacher’s Recommendation Letter

December 2, 2011

A significant part of the US application package is the teacher’s recommendation letter. When I first started out asking for recommendation, I was having a hard time with it. My teachers that I seek out had never wrote any recommendation letters before. I was the first, at least the first student that they taught, who [...]

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