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Should I Apply During Early Decision, Early Action, Or Regular Decision

You may be asking yourself what all this Early Decision, Early Action, and Regular Decision stuff is all about. How do you know which is right for you? Well, first we’ll explain the difference between them and then we’ll help you determine what to do. What Is The Difference Between Early Decision, Early Action, and Regular Decision? The first most obvious difference is the time frame. Both early…

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5 Surprising Study Tips

Studying is daunting. You are absorbing information, grasping new concepts, and overcoming hurdles to understanding every day, and you feel it must be done at a set time, with the threat of bad grades hanging over your head. That’s intense. Thankfully, there are ways to make it easier. While studying is challenging, it should ultimately be rewarding. Read below to find out how you might make it…

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Why You Should Expose Your Child To Different Sports

We tend to focus on a small selection of sports, such as basketball, football, soccer, etc. While these are all fine sports, it is helpful to expose our children to a wider selection. Many, many children feel that they aren’t interested in sports, but they are basing that feeling on the sports environment they see around them and the most common sports they are exposed to. Maybe they don’t like…

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9 Active Studying Tips

Studying typically consists of reading passages and working problems until we feel like pulling our hair out. We are studying very inefficiently by doing it in this passive and exhausting manner and making it needlessly painful. If we take an active approach to studying, it would feel much more rewarding. Passive Versus Active Studying ● Passive studying is what you do when you just open a…

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ReALMS - A 5 Part Plan For Student Excellence

ReALMS – A 5 Part Plan For Student Excellence

When I was a child, my parents instilled a curiosity in me for five things: reading, art, music, foreign language, and sports. They believed that these interests are valuable, and they encouraged me to pursue them at an early age. I am now heading to Harvard, and I believe that these skills played a large part in gaining me admittance not only to my choice college, but to nine other elite schools…

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8 Activities To Spark Creativity

Have you given your child a wealth of art supplies or toys and then watched them prop their head on their crooked arm and sigh? They are bored and uninspired, and you get frustrated looking at this pile of stuff you so excitedly supplied them with. Well, what they need is creative challenge. In 2013, artist Phil Hansen gave a TED talk in which he said, “Embracing the limitation can actually drive…

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6 Ways To Encourage Wonder In Your Child And Yourself

Kids ask tons of questions. It’s a humorous, sometimes overwhelming, and wonderful fact of childhood. This way of looking at the world fuels amazing opportunities for learning, growth, and problem-solving, so we should definitely encourage it. I found this wonderful blog post on edutopia entitled, “I Wonder” Questions: Harnessing the Power of Inquiry. It helps teachers make full use of their…

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10 Things To Consider For Making The Best Homework Station

A homework station makes it easier for your child to build a healthy routine of doing their homework and to keep focused while doing their work. By providing a designated space for homework, you give your child a place to do their work that is stocked for the job, free from distractions, and enjoyable to use. You want homework to be as easy as possible for your child to do so their only concern…

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4 Ways To Make High School Easier

High school feels very intimidating. You have to study to do well in your high school classes but you also have to think about getting everything “extra” done to take college prep tests and be ready to apply to colleges. Most of us make it harder than it has to be. We see these massive goals ahead of us and get kind of blinded, but by planning ahead, doing things strategically, and thinking of…

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How A Traditional Public School Student Can Compete With A Magnet School Student

Magnet schools provide a considerable boost to your college application, but everyone can’t or doesn’t necessarily want to go to a magnet school. Students may not be accepted into a magnet school, they may not be able to get to the magnet school every school day, or they may require free and reduced-price lunches like traditional public schools typically offer. Thankfully, a little strategy helps…

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5 Tools To Make Applying To College Easy...-er

5 Tools To Make Applying To College Easy…-er

It gets pretty daunting when you’re in high school and you’re trying to get everything ready in order to prepare for college. There are so many options, so many decisions, and so much work to get done. Thankfully, there are tools out there that make the whole process easier so you can spend more time doing what is most important: learning. Five Tools To Make Applying To College Easy…-er #1.…

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What A Child's School Years Should Look Like

What A Child’s School Years Should Look Like

Optimally, what should your child’s school years look like? We aren’t going to tell you something ridiculously over simplistic like they should get get straight A’s every year. This blog post aims to lay out certain habits to instill in your child that will give them a firm foundation for getting accepted into an elite college and achieving success in life. The Elementary School Years Elementary…

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How Best To Take Subject Tests

Some exams must be completed during a specific year while others do not. You can take advantage of these differences so you don’t have to stress yourself out by taking a huge load of exams in your junior and senior year. If you take your subject tests when you are already studying hard for a class in that subject, you can combine your efforts into both your class and your test and work smarter…

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8 Lies We Tell Ourselves About School

What we say to ourselves matters. Even if we’re joking, we are hearing that stuff. We are absorbing those words and letting them influence what we think and do. What if we are believing ideas that are hindering us from being the student we could be? We could be saying negative things about ourselves or expecting something unrealistic or believing myths about school that keep us from doing things…

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Surprising Tips To Make The Activities Listed On Your College Application Spectacular

When you get ready to fill out your college application, you will be asked for your grades, courses, and extracurricular activities and you will be given an opportunity to list activities, accomplishments, and miscellaneous tidbits. You want to fill in every space they give you. Now, I suppose it’s possible that you can fill in all of these spaces with awards and achievements that you make with…

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Making The Most Of Extracurricular Activites For College

In some of our past blog posts, we have mentioned the importance of extracurricular activities and reaching the highest possible positions in the groups and programs you are involved in. You do want to strive for the highest leadership position available because it makes a great impression your college application, but we don’t want to make you think that if you join a club in your freshman and…

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ReALMS System: 10 Ways To Help Your Child Learn A Second Language

What if your child had some level of proficiency in reading, art, a second language, music, and sports? Not one of these areas. All of them. This is the basis of our ReALMS system. Encouraging your child to pursue all of these areas at a young age helps them build a variety of useful skills and it will increase the likelihood of them discovering their passion in life much earlier than if they…

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