The Personal Statement: Your Experience, Your Story

by Xavier Husser, Boston College, '18

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...

Resume in the Apple Juice

by Seanna Leath

Personal statement.  Statement of purpose.  Personal-ment of the state you’re in.  No matter how the words were rearranged, it still loomed large and confusingly in my mind.  Being well into my junior year, I’m now approached more seriously by professors to discuss my...

Take a Breath and Push Through

by Long Dang, Williams College, '14

Getting into college is hard; at least that’s what I was thinking this time last year while going through the application process. When senior year rolled around I didn’t really have a clue where I wanted to go for college, or what I wanted to do when I got there. As...

Draw A Picture With Words

by Irvin Gomez, Dartmouth College , '13

Ask any admissions staff what aspect of an application makes a student stand out and they will reply that it is the essay. There is really no way to stress the importance of the essay component during the college application process. Being one of the most important...

gobble gobble!

by Tereza Ponce de Leon

It’s already 2 weeks until Thanksgiving and I know most of you high students are looking forward to it because that means a 4 day weekend! I remember thinking that last year and couldn’t wait for it to come. What I also remember about this time was that I...