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The Gates Scholarship

College Essay Guy

This help often comes in the form of scholarships, and there are a few standout opportunities you can explore. Let’s dig into one of the big ones—the Gates Scholarship (Gates as in Bill Gates?! TABLE OF CONTENTS (click to skip ahead) What is the Gates Scholarship? Yes, indeed!) Makes sense, right?

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What Is a Good PSAT Score? The Definitive Guide

Shemmassian Academic Consulting

A key difference between the PSAT 10 and PSAT/NMSQT is that in the junior year, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation uses scores from the PSAT/NMSQT to select students for its competitive, prestigious scholarship awards for academically talented students across the country. Should my child take the PSAT as a freshman?

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Building the College List

CTK College Coach

CTK Blog: What to Consider When Touring Colleges FREE DOWNLOAD : Ask yourself the right questions when researching schools and developing your school list CTK college research questions as you research and develop your school list. Aren’t There Really Great Scholarships Out There? Most scholarship search sites are basically lotteries.

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What are your admission requirements? Part II 

Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

Our last blog was geared toward helping students applying to college keep an open mind about their choices and options, and ensure they have a solid support system around them. The blog went on to explain why a 3.7 (or My response was simple, honest, and easy, “ Sure. try subtly changing the subject. Absolutely not.

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How to Get Into Drexel Medical School: Requirements and Strategies

Shemmassian Academic Consulting

In this blog post, we’ll discuss Drexel’s admissions requirements as well as strategies to strengthen your application, keeping in mind the school’s identity and innovative spirit. I stumbled out of the gate at first. The school continues to champion diversity and inclusion, with a significant number of nontraditional students.

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What Is Brown University Known For?

BestColleges

However, students who qualify for scholarships and other types of financial aid can reduce out-of-pocket costs. Check The Van Wickle gates at Brown only open twice a year for Convocation and Commencement. According to University legend, any student who enters the gates at another time will be cursed.

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Tips and Eight Examples for New Short Answer "Please share how you believe your experience at UT-Austin will prepare you to “Change the World” after you graduate."

Tex Admissions

The only situation where this prompt may be appropriate is as a Forty Acres Scholarship question. This is a kind of “vision or value statement” that is problematic in its own way, which I discuss in this Admissions Madness blog post. The Unofficial UT-Austin Admissions Blog RSS. UT’s “core purpose” has a subset of “ core values.”