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January 15th Application Deadline

Greetings Prospective TC Students! It's that time of year! Our January 15th application deadline is rapidly approaching. We encourage you to apply if you have not done so already. For more information about how to apply, visit www.tc.edu/apply or email your general inquiries to [email protected].

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January 2nd Application Deadline

Greetings Prospective TC Students! It's that time of year! Our January 2nd application deadline is rapidly approaching. We encourage you to apply if you have not done so already. For more information about how to apply, visit www.tc.edu/apply or email your general inquiries to [email protected].

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Join us for the HPSE Prospective Student Open House!

Friday, December 5 6:00pm-8:00pm (check-in begins at 5:30pm) Location: Horace Mann 152 525 West 120th Street NY, NY 10027

Click here to register!

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Student Teaching Tales - a reflection by Laura Pantin

http://www.magicboxproductions.org/

http://www.nycitycenter.org/education

Laura Pantin, 2nd-year master's student, Bilingual/Bicultural Education

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Same Love: The TC Student Experience - by Lucia Caumont

                 Karina is a first-year student in the MA in Economics and Education, originally from Chile. Amaris, now her wife, is a social worker, also from Chile. They met almost three years ago while they were volunteering for a non-profit organization in Chile’s capital, Santiago.

Lucia Caumont-Stipanicic is an international student from Uruguay and a second year Master's degree candidate in Comparative and International Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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Admission Tips from Margaret Okada: Ways to prepare for your application

tcmargaret @tcmargaret

After you figure out which program is the best fit for you, and you have connected with us, the next thing you should do is begin preparing for the application. You can find the application for admission for entrance in 2015 at our website here.

Update your CV/Resume- This is a great place to put your entire academic and professional accomplishments, awards, fellowships, scholarships, publications, research history, volunteering, internships, and any other activities that you feel would help the admission committee have a stronger understanding of who you are .

Reach out to and speak with your recommendation providers – Make sure to select recommendation providers who know you well and can speak of your strengths. For applicants who are applying after several years in the workforce, as your recommendation providers to write about your abilities and strengths that would apply for your program (e.g. writing, research, critical analysis, etc.).

Sign up and prepare for the GRE/MAT/GMAT/TOEFL (if applicable).

Get a course-by-course evaluation done for your post-secondary degrees (if applicable).

Write your statement of purpose.

The Statement of Purpose is pretty much one the most important parts of your application, and this is the one item I recommend spending a lot of time on. This is your voice in the entire application process and provides the admission committee with a real sense of who you are. Broadly speaking it should include 3 things:

What brings you here - your background story

What you want to do - your future story

Why you are applying to this specific program - the fit

Please note that some programs have different recommendations or requirements for the statement of purpose so I strongly recommend that you check in with your admission liaison regarding this component.

Many applicants I speak with stress over standardized test scores and their undergraduate GPA, but many overlook the statement of purpose. And so I really can’t emphasize this enough. Statements of Purpose are about 2-3 pages long (a maximum of 1,000 words) and they are intended to tell your whole life story so make sure to spend lots of time writing and re-writing it and asking friends, family, and mentors to read and edit it.

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Marianne McCune on making news stories good stories

- Use the 'inbetweens' - leave on your recorder. To capture context, structure your piece and glue it together. They can give you a through line, take you to the next place. And they're where the great accidents happen! Don't be so focused on the forest that you miss the trees. - Linger - figure out the maximum amount of time you can linger. It's a friendly way of invading peoples space. Things happen when you're lingering. It opens up a chance for something to unfold in your story. You also get people taking to each other, which can be way more interesting and powerful than an interview. Have lingering requests in with all the press people and agencies you have requests in with. Banter can be another form of lingering. - Make people memorable - If the tape is not great YOU have to make them memorable, by finding the details. There's always time to find and pick a few of those details. - Turn a page - Tell me what happened after what you already told me. There may not be any time to get a beginning, middle and end but try and always turn one page. Makes the story satisfying. Follow up on the outcome somehow. There are lots of creative ways you can do this. - You can bring yourself with you - Who should a reporter be in their story? You should be honest with yourself about who you are in your story. You yourself have to understand what you are doing there, and what you want for your listeners. That doesn't mean it has to be first person. Bring your own curiosity, ask the questions you think are interesting, tweak it to your own interest, report on things you're interested in. - Write off the top of your head - do not log your tape. I just told you to get way too much tape. Write the story, slot the tape in, adjust the cuts and then if you have time you can go back and listen to stuff. It's rare you don't remember your best tape. Other strategies: Play! Play with how you craft a story. Let people help you and help each other tell the story. Multiple people can tell a story. You can make experts interesting, it can be fun. You can play in the interview. Flirt! Make people happy and comfortable and laughing, especially if they're dry. Avoid experts when you can. Give people a way into the story.