Introversion, Extroversion, and College Applications
Colleges want to know that you’re willing to use your personality, whether it’s introverted, extroverted, or somewhere in between, as a tool to achieve.
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Tag: competition
Just How Busy Is Busy Enough?
We increment our limits over and over, adding and adding to them, expecting to hit a ceiling called “enough” that doesn’t exist.
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Your Orientation Week Talking Points: Not A Second Common App
Set something in motion for yourself that you can capitalize on down the road.
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It’s a Small Town After All: From a small town to a college campus
I remember feeling guilty about even applying to Cornell, like I was somehow rebelling against the laws of nature. People would congratulate me and I’d sense a bitterness in their tone.
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Your Parents’ Application Experience Was A Lot Different From Yours
For one thing, there was no internet when most of our parents were applying to college.
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“Anything you can do, I can do better.”
Growing up in somebody’s shadow can really mess with the way you choose colleges for yourself. Maybe it shouldn’t.
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Applying to College (the Second Time Around)
Applying to Harvard and applying to Harvard Law are more similar than you’d think, and I’d like to think I know better the second time around.
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Applying to College in Westeros
Going through Game of Thrones withdrawal? See how some of you favorite (and most hated) characters might be able to lend you a hand if you were applying to college in the Seven Kingdoms!
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6 Things You Should Totally Challenge Your Friends To
As admissions season draws near, people can become hypercompetitive about test scores, GPA, and everything else colleges consider important. Want a break from all the stressful rivalry? Here are some ideas for competitions that won’t change anyone’s life.
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How to Survive a Chinese House Party
But at least her comments this time around were only about your height. At least they weren’t yet about your GPA, your violin playing, your extracurricular involvement, or what colleges you’re planning on applying to.
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