The Personal Statement: Your Experience, Your Story

As many of you are preparing to apply to colleges, you are revising your personal statement. Unlike your transcript, resume, and recommendations, your personal statement is the only opportunity you get to tell your story to colleges and explain why you deserve to be...

Your College Search: By the Numbers

This article is published in the 2014 I’m First Guide to College Your College Search: By the Numbers By Emily Anderer I was woefully uninformed when I began my college search. Living in Utah, I knew about most of the universities in my state but very little about...

The Unwelcomed and The Unexpected

About a month and a half ago, a day before I left for Brown, I was playing a nice, relaxing game of pickup soccer.  My old teammates were about to leave for their colleges for the start of their soccer seasons; it would our last game together for the year.  We set up...

Twitter Office Hour: College Admissions 101

Thursday, October 2nd at 7:00p.m. EST Join us for our monthly Twitter Office Hour. On the first Thursday of every month at 7:00pm EST, we’re inviting first-generation college students, those who aspire to be, and everyone who cares about first-gens to meet us on...

From Freshman to Senior, A Reflection

Looking back on freshman year I remember a very nervous, timid, and anxious Nahomi. Coming to such a big school was definitely something I was neither prepared for, nor expected. I think my biggest fear was not finding my own place, or sense of belonging, especially...