The incredible essay of Brittani Stinson, the girl who got into 5 Ivies and Stanford has been making the rounds. The funny, off-beat essay about Costco is incredibly fun and we’ve had a chance to see it as well. And so, we are taking the chance to talk through why this essay was really successful. 1. […]
Read Full Article →On the 1st of Jan, when everyone was toasting Happy New Year, we looked something like this: We are definitely not Tina Fey though we’ve seen that exhausted look in the mirror in the week after Christmas. We do have a certain preference for teal colored files versus the orange (yay CollegeCore colors!) While college admissions officers all […]
Read Full Article →Imagine strolling around Lake Michigan with people hailing from all corners of the planet, all with unique experiences and cultural backgrounds; discussing Nietzsche and Dostoevsky with them, and getting the general impression that you’ve known them forever. Imagine this and you’re pretty close to imagining what the first day of the International Pre-Orientation is like. […]
Read Full Article →Last Monday, I was sitting in my Humanities class discussing the similarities between a story in the Arabian Nights and a theme in an old Chinese legend, when suddenly sheets of white started falling outside the window. I stepped out of the Social Sciences building to see the world covered in cotton candy. The first […]
Read Full Article →Of all the universities I applied to, Oxford’s was perhaps the most challenging as well as rewarding process of all. It all started out under the guise of a simple UCAS application, which I filled in a few hours, with guidance from Urvashi Ma’am. Unlike lengthier US applications, the UCAS only required one piece of […]
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