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		<title>All’s Well That Begins Well</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The hallways are beginning to fill with the buzz of seniors talking about their college choices. It’s hard to believe that just a year has passed since they started their college search – so many campuses have been visited, so many interviews have been had, and so many essays have been written!  As the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Envelope, Please&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the next few weeks, seniors will be anxiously attending their mailboxes, eagerly awaiting the delivery of the proverbial “thick envelope” as colleges begin sending out their first round of early admissions decisions. However, for many students, applying early isn’t in their best interests for a variety of reasons.
The college process, when done well with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Doors of the College Admissions Office</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With applications sent off, the college application moves from the student’s desk to the college admissions office where, for the next two months hundreds of thousands of applications will be reviewed while students across the country anxiously await a decision.
What goes on behind the closed doors of the admissions office is a mystery to most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fine Tuning the College List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After months and months of research, visiting schools, and interviewing, many seniors are faced with a new dilemma: how to cull what has become an impressively long college list into something more manageable and realistic. With more than 3,000 colleges from which to choose, the challenge is to develop a list of  schools that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making the Personal Statement Personal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing the Personal Statement can be a torturous exercise for many seniors. Fears of sounding like a braggart or worse, having nothing worthwhile to say, leave even strong writers paralyzed. While the temptation might be to adopt a distant, academic tone, by making your Personal Statement personal you help the admissions office gain a richer understanding of your unique character and qualities.

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		<title>10 Steps to Writing a Winning Personal Statement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have yet to meet the student who finds writing their Personal Statement for the Common Application to be the most exciting part of their college process.  They whine, they procrastinate, they beg me to write it for them – and I am sympathetic.  It’s hard to capture the “essence of who you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No One Said Applying to College Was Easy:  7 Tips for Parents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time and time again parents sit in our office and reflect, “I don’t remember it being like this when I applied to college” and, indeed, the process has changed in some important ways.  More colleges are making standardized testing optional, schools are becoming increasingly competitive, students are sending out more applications and parents are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Liberal Arts Degree Passe?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The cost of college coupled with the bleak employment outlook for college graduates has caused many a high school student to feel the pressure of declaring a major that will be “useful” at graduation.  As a career coach for college students and graduates, I am often asked the question: is the liberal arts degree [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ahpeducationalconsulting.com/is-the-liberal-arts-degree-passe/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[One Tour, Two Different Perspectives
My daughter is a high school junior and last week we took our first official tour of colleges specifically for her. Although I had, of course, anticipated this moment for years, looking at colleges through the eyes of an invested parent instead of a detached consultant, was an extraordinary experience for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ahpeducationalconsulting.com/787/</link>
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		<title>One College Tour, Two Different Impressions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the “benefits”, or so I like to call them, of being the child of an educational consultant is that you “get” to tag along with your parent on college tours from the time you can remember.  My daughter plays club soccer and, for years, whenever she had a tournament in some far [...]]]></description>
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