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		<title>Objective: Planning and Researching the Route from High School to a Career</title>
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An example: Becoming an Economist
Uncovering the Path to a PhD in Economics
Which Colleges Effectively Place Students in Elite Graduate Schools?

Ambitious students conduct research and develop plans for their undergraduate years to ensure that their careers and personal goals are met. Learning to write well and communicate effectively, along with securing meaningful recommendations from professors, are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of the SAT Subject Tests</title>
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Better predictors of college performance?
An Alternative for ‘Test Optional’ Schools
ACT instead of both the SAT and SAT Subject tests

Many consider the SAT Subject test one test too many. Most applicants to the very selective schools are already taking AP or IB exams, the ACT and/or SAT, and the CAHSEE (in California) to determine English and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joining a Combined Baccalaureate Medical Program</title>
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35 Schools Offer a Program
Questions to Ask about a Combined Program
Brown’s PLME Program

Competition to become a doctor has always been fierce. In 2008, 42,231 medical school applicants submitted 558,000 applications for 18,000 spots in the 128 accredited US medical schools. If this were a game of musical chairs, 24,231 would be left standing. That’s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Perfect Portfolio: Applying to Art School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the recent WACAC (Western Association of College and Admissions Counselors) Spring Conference, Kavin Buck and Laura Young, the director, and assistant director of UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture, along with Ed Schoenberg, VP of enrollment at Otis College of Art and Design, shared their extensive experiences and insights on how best to pull [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ivycollegeprep.net/wordpress/?p=82</link>
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		<title>Becoming a Recruited Scholar Athlete</title>
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Most Colleges seek Accomplished Student Athletes
Assuring eligibility at Division I and Division II Schools
Pulling together an Athletic Profile
Getting on the coaches top 25 list

Before attempting to become a recruited athlete, you need to ask yourself whether you have the athletic ability to compete and the desire to play at the college level (after all playing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of a Post-Secondary School System Currently Under Siege</title>
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Current College Educational cost structure cannot be maintained
Making College Education Scalable
Current on-line educational resources are numerous and are set to multiply further

Guessing the future, even if the guess is well off the mark, kicks the brain into gear. Guessing at the future of post-secondary education, however, is more like getting the brain kicked into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Searching for Scholarships</title>
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Types of Scholarships available
Best Scholarship Search Tools
Search Systematically

There’s something almost magical about hunting for scholarships. When you find scholarship listings and start adding up the numbers, it evokes the feeling of winning the lottery: $10,000 for writing an Isaac Newton essay or $2,500 for listing community service projects. It’s all very alluring, but don’t let [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Encountering the World of Enterprise through Job Shadowing</title>
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What Job Shadowing is
Junior Achievement, a leader in job shadowing
Setting up Your own Job Shadowing Activities

Students are usually so immersed in their studies and extracurricular activities that they are hard pressed to venture into the real world, and try to figure out how they might fit into it.  Often, their first approaches are through internship [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ivycollegeprep.net/wordpress/?p=67</link>
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		<title>How Students Learn: A Review of Why Don’t Students Like School</title>
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Cognitive Psychologist Explores how the Mind Works
What Factors are Critical in the Learning Process

Cognitive psychologists, the same professionals who create SAT test questions, have learned more about the workings of the human brain over the last 25 years, than the preceding 3,000 years. More interestingly, according to Daniel Willingham, a cognitive psychologist who currently teaches [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ivycollegeprep.net/wordpress/?p=63</link>
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		<title>College Presidents write an Admissions Essay</title>
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Given a ‘tough’ essay from his or her school’s 2009 application
Their approaches
Their sage advice for writing their essay

The 6 May 2009 Wall Street Journal ‘turned the table’ on a group of college presidents from some of the most elite colleges in the country, including the University of Pennsylvania, Pomona College, Wesleyan College, and the University [...]]]></description>
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