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Making Your College Application Shine
Top tips from Agnes Scott admission counselors on standing out in the application process The college application process is overwhelming. We’re not here to pretend that it isn’t. We do our best to make it as easy as possible, but when you are applying to multiple colleges and universities, each with its own application, required documents, and deadlines, it becomes a lot to keep up with. That’s why we want to give you our top tips on the college application process. We’re going to be focusing these tips on the Agnes Scott College admission process, which means we will be primarily talking about the Common Application. However, keep in mind…
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Welcoming Summer: Tips to be more productive this summer (for a happier you in fall)
This message goes out to all of the rising high school seniors. Let’s be honest with ourselves: your junior year wasn’t exactly ideal. Nor was the end of your sophomore year. We’ve finally made it to summer, and hopefully you get to take a break and relax. For those of you who read the title of this post and immediately groaned, let me say it now: I get it. The past year has been stressful. You want to relax, hang out with friends, and do things you couldn’t do in the height of the pandemic. What you don’t want is some admission person telling you that you need to work…
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Insecure to Unstoppable: How I Achieved Success in my First Year of College
Insecurity. That awful thing that makes you doubt the essence of who you are. These feelings are completely normal and affect every single one of us. In the current ‘technology era’, companies are now profiting from this less than satisfactory feeling all of us experience from time to time. Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat are known for their ability to influence politics and world wide movements, but also for instantly changing our societal standards of normality with a singular post.