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Senior Sickness
1. Mind over Matter—Out of my eight senior-year teachers, only one of them refused to acknowledge senioritis as a legitimate disease that infects more than 80{53c6eff5ce19621f7316832cfedf08caab022021f1679c62c3f44b8900ceaf72} of the graduating high school class. In...
FREE MONEY!!!
No matter how much financial aid you’re getting from your college - APPLY FOR OUTSIDE SCHOLARSHIPS! Even if schools give you a full ride, they most likely expect you to do some work or Work Study or borrow. Outside scholarships can often be used to substitute for your...
Negligence & Cool College Things
Dear CSO readers & my blog, I have fallen short of my aims to update this blog regularly. Perhaps you think I am a ghost and my experience is lackluster. Far from it. Okay, I'm just being a bit dramatic. But seriously, I do feel this tug of pain and guilt getting...
The most intense 3 hours of my life.
Hurry bus! Please hurry!! March 31st was the craziest time for me. I elected to get my admissions decisions from Stanford, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Williams, and Harvard by email, because truthfully, I didn’t want to wait for mail. Although I got into a lot of...
College Acceptances, Visits, and Impact!
You finally found out if you got in or not!! This is such an exciting time for you, your family, and your friends- Here's a video with some tips on what to do now that you know where you got in!
TAG!! You're it!
I was never good at hide-and-seek. I could handle it a little better if I was the one counting, but hiding was horrible for me. On the one hand, I’m lanky, slightly clumsy, and never good at fitting into the covert nooks and crannies of the house. But more than...
Is it here yet??
As I have previously mentioned, I applied late and that only made the waiting game worse. I had to hear all about my friends getting their letters in while I still hadn't heard anything. I tried to hide my anxiety by working more, but it didn't help. Everyday before...
$5,000 GoodSearch Giveaway
GoodSearch will donate a $1 to Center for Student Opportunity for every toolbar that is downloaded between April 6th at 9am Eastern and April 9th at 9am Eastern up to $5,000!! Please download the toolbar right now. Our new CSO toolbar is free to download and allows...
The Waiting Game
You've completed all of your applications; sent them all in months ago, read and re-read all of your essays and completed your SAT and/or ACT testing. You've gotten teachers to write numerous letters of recommendation for you, and you've tried your hardest to avoid...
Harvard on Ice!
Spring Semester!! Catch up with me and hear about all the cool things college has to offer outside of the classroom! Talk about options! Check out this video!