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IvyBoost Counseling Forum – Saturday April 26 at 1pm

IvyBoost Counseling Forum – Saturday April 26 at 1pm

Many high school students know that college essays are an important part of your college applications. How do you find...

IvyBoost Success Story: A Student’s Path to UCLA & UCB

IvyBoost Success Story: A Student’s Path to UCLA & UCB

Romil was a top performing student from a private high school in Fremont, California.He had a focus on STEM and...

4 Tips to Build Relationships With Teachers Before Recommendations

4 Tips to Build Relationships With Teachers Before Recommendations

by Sarah M. Recommendations from your teachers are vital to most applications, and particularly those for college. Still, they can...

College Essays Blog

3 Tips to Make Your Essay About Technology More Understandable

3 Tips to Make Your Essay About Technology More Understandable

by Kathleen M. You had a wonderful summer internship or extracurricular where you learned a lot about tech or STEM,...

Which Paragraphs Would You Rather Read?

Which Paragraphs Would You Rather Read?

by Kathleen M. If you were a college admissions officer and had the opportunity to read hundreds of personal narratives,...

How to be the Real You in Writing

How to be the Real You in Writing

by Kathleen M. As Oscar Wilde famously quipped, “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.”  If only this advice were...

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