Great College Advice

JULY 29, 2023

What Is a Risky College Essay? In an interview that I read the other day, a former Dartmouth College admissions officer lamented the fact that students don’t take enough risks with their college essays. Their Personal Statements, in particular. A breakthrough Personal Statement can make a real difference.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Because high schools that enroll substantial percentages of students of color are readily identifiable, colleges and universities must engage these designated school districts and, in conjunction with their administrative offices, create focused recruitment drives that begin the first day of the freshman year of high school.

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Great College Advice

JULY 24, 2023

How do you write the community essay for the Common App? Many college applications require supplemental essays. Why write the community essay for the Common App? Why do colleges ask you to write this community essay? This essay is a mix of activities and community essays.

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Great College Advice

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

How do you choose the best Common App essay topic? I tell students that virtually any topic will work. However, a good Common Application essay has two critical elements. The Most Flexible Common App Essay Topic Here is the actual prompt on the Common Application. Share an essay on any topic of your choice.

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Great College Advice

JULY 24, 2023

Crafting the “Academic Interests” Response How do you write a college essay about academic interests? In addition to asking applicants about which majors interest them and their potential future plans, some schools ask applicants to write a college essay about academic interests. You’ll take tests and write papers.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 29, 2023

Great College Counseling for International Students The United States remains a primary higher education destination for students from around the world. As families consider sending their students to the United States to study, they often reach out to Great College Advice for college counseling for international students.

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Great College Advice

JULY 26, 2023

How do you write the Why This College essay? If you are going through the college application process, more than likely you are encountering supplemental essay questions asking you to elaborate on why you want to attend that institution. Students seem to fall into the same “traps” every time. The question takes many forms.

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Great College Advice

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Deciding to study in the US is an exciting decision most students would want to make. Research and Shortlisting An ample amount of research is necessary before applying, especially while shortlisting colleges that suit your academic goals. They help you learn about the academic offerings and campus culture in detail.

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 6, 2024

How do we prepare students for these changes? These statistics are staggering, but there is ample opportunity for postsecondary educators to support students as they make the transition from college to career, despite the changing nature of the workforce. Image courtesy of Wix. editing, rewriting).

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Great College Advice

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Consider your audience as you craft the perfect college essay How do you write the perfect college essay? She can understand your academic point (because she’s a smart woman and she loves you), but you may have to lead her through it more methodically, and you may have to explain things a bit more carefully. Who’s your audience?

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Great College Advice

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While not every family needs personalized guidance through the college admissions maze, many do. With our first-hand knowledge of colleges and access to the admission profession, a good college counselor can provide in-depth, personalized advice that no guidebook or website can. Worse, some students will drop out entirely.

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Great College Advice

MARCH 17, 2022

The Elements of the Common Application Essay. The Common App essay demonstrates your ability to write clearly and concisely on a selected topic and helps you distinguish yourself in your own voice. Then write an essay of no more than 650 words, using the prompt to inspire and structure your response. First is the story.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 31, 2023

A report released by the Harvard University Graduate School of Education (GSE) highlights elements of the college admission culture that could be contributing to the stunting of the ethical growth of students. Anderson said schools have relied on imperfect and inequitable assessments and tools like essays and letters of recommendation.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 17, 2023

This post provides important tips to help you prepare for the different types of college admissions interviews so that you can demonstrate your abilities, show your enthusiasm for a college, and share your sparkling personality. As well as the person doing the interview. Third, they want to gauge your interest in their college.

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Great College Advice

JULY 25, 2023

Because of the increasing number of applicants, more and more colleges are starting to tap their network of alumni to conduct prospective student interviews in place of on-campus interviews. Understanding what makes a student unique can be very difficult to glean from the black and white pages of an application.

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Great College Advice

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Nearly every week a student or two will ask me if they should disclose learning differences on the college application. Generally speaking, students don’t want to give a college any reason to generate any preconceived notions about them. Other students, however, see good reason for to disclose learning differences.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

With standardized testing losing steam and affirmative action ending, admission officers have to adapt new critical frameworks to study potential students’ fit at a given institution. For example, Stanford University’s process is guided by context, academic excellence, intellectual vitality and extracurricular activities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2024

Some of us are the only people of color in our departments and find ourselves carrying the heavy load of doctoral students who want to work with us because they identify with some form of our many identities. We do not have to be martyrs in the name of academic institutions. What are your personal, familial, and financial goals?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

Instead, admissions officers can consider applicants’ personal traits, experiences, skills, and knowledge that might be connected to their race or ethnicity, in light of what they could contribute to a campus. Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), the group that brought the cases to the Supreme Court, has rushed to fill this void.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2023

Thanks in part to AI, students will no longer have to wax lyrical about struggles and achievements to secure a university place The decision to scrap personal statements from university applications is overdue. This made it difficult for me to afford the necessary resources to excel academically. Continue reading.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 29, 2023

Families and students often ask us, “does volunteer work matter for college admissions?” You will have the chance to list your volunteer work in the activities section of your Common Application, and you also may be able to write about some of your volunteer work in your essays.

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University Business

JANUARY 20, 2023

ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot, has educators and even some students worried about its capacity to promote cheating on assignments. However, AI technology shouldn’t be something we fear, but rather a tool that teachers and education leaders can lean in on for the benefit of our students. Now let’s have some fun, shall we?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 16, 2023

Tutor students by defining terms and explaining difficult concepts. Text generators might help students learn about different writing genres and forms and force serious writers to become stylists. In other words, AI text generators will establish a new baseline for student essays. Provide first drafts of course syllabi.

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Great College Advice

JULY 25, 2023

As students and their families organize themselves to visit college campuses, they usually focus on itineraries, reserving hotel rooms and scheduling those campus tours. Sometimes students will also sit in on a class or two, in hopes of getting a feel for what the educational experience will be like.

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SRHE

JANUARY 11, 2023

Will this be the next stage in the battle of cheating by students? Will it lead to an arms race of countering the AI programmes to foil the students cheating? Jasper is a ‘writing assistant’, Dr Essay ‘gets to work and crafts your entire essay for you’, Article Forge (get it?) Other AI essay forgers are available.

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Hope College Network

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The academic structure at Hope allows students to immerse in multiple academic disciplines, engage with an array of people, and stretch their minds in new ways. The liberal arts structure of Hope stretches students in new ways through its requirement of General Education courses from various disciplines.

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Supporting Student Success

JANUARY 26, 2021

Upon graduation, today’s students are facing a unique problem: the job market is full of positions designated as “entry-level,” but many of those positions actually require several years’ worth of experience. After cultivating so many important skills throughout their academic studies, they now find themselves stuck when applying to jobs.

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eLiterate

DECEMBER 16, 2022

ChatGPT is creating all kinds of buzz about students cheating on essays. “A robot writing an essay” as interpreted by DALL-E 2. My social contract with the teacher was no less broken than the student who copied somebody else’s work. I still would have wanted to produce a good essay. Absolutely.

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EAB

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Such efforts would create a more equitable path to higher education and encourage more Gen Z students to attend college. They do not provide personalized information to each student on which academic programs might be a fit, or which specific scholarships they are eligible for. But these programs do not go far enough.

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University Business

OCTOBER 23, 2023

While nearly three-quarters of respondents (73%) indicated the Supreme Court decision would have a significant or minor impact on student diversity, an equal amount said that the fall affirmative action had “little or no impact” on their mission, diversity goals, and outcomes. The scale has helped turn U.C.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 20, 2023

Human writers also draw from short- and long-term memories that recall a range of lived experiences and inform personal writing styles. Academic fields make progress in this way. Some are motivated to ferret out dishonesty in academic pursuits. Such attributes betray the text’s humanity.

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Study and Go Abroad

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

You want to show off your skills, competencies, and personality, while remaining relatable, sympathetic, and honest. Some big awards have automated processes to narrow down applicants , meaning a computer scans your essay and resumé for desirable keywords. Academic achievement 5. Tall order! School or community involvement 4.

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Hope College Network

OCTOBER 26, 2022

I vividly remember how nervous I was about college classes as a high school student. I tend to be a perfectionist so I was concerned with not succeeding academically at Hope College when I had made my decision to attend. Hope is a lot different than big universities when it comes to academics. Personalized Academics.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Who is to Blame for Lax Academic Standards? It is no surprise to college professors that academic cheating is on the rise even though virtually every university has a policy on academic integrity. In other words, many students say, “I cheat because I can.” Getting someone else to do your academic work (e.g.,

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chat bot that can write college-level essays, is going viral. A lecturer at an Australian university found that a fifth of her students had already used ChatGPT on their exams. Scores of Stanford University students reportedly used it on their fall 2022 final exams mere weeks after its release.

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In response to the impact of COVID-19 on incoming students’ transition to Ryerson University, a dedicated cross-departmental project team was convened to create an online preparatory program. By: Rachel Barreca and Kait Taylor-Asquini. What We Did. Check out Get Ryerson Ready Video here.

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University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Personally, I believe generative AI is here to stay, and there are numerous positive ways that these technologies can be used to improve the lives of students and instructors in higher education. We have seen examples where students are being incorrectly flagged as having used generative AI tools to do their homework.

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