Category: Academic Advice
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Hardworking students accepted by UChicago and Cornell!
It’s been a while since I posted anything, mostly because I’ve been focusing on my musical projects. But good news: Last year, an international school student with a 1540 on the SAT wrote college application essays under my guidance and got into UChicago as an economics major. And just a few days ago, another student…
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Praise the Bee! A New NYT-Style Spelling Bee
Instructions Welcome to another NYT-style Spelling Bee! The rules are simple: Create as many words as you can, and each word must consist of at least four letters. For each entry, the center letter must also be used. Like the original New York Times Spelling Bee, each game consists of at least one pangram (a word that…
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Rethinking Standardized Test Preparation: Why It’s All Connected
“Should I memorize more SAT vocabulary?” “I need to focus on my history class this week, so I’ll pause my TOEFL lessons.” “Will this be on the GRE?” If you find yourself asking these questions, it might be time to reconsider your approach. The Myth of Compartmentalizing Often, students separate their preparation for different standardized…