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		<title>Doing school: the gap between high school education and college admissions</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2011/06/doing-school-the-gap-between-high-school-education-and-college-admissions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 07:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea van Niekerk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you will have heard me complain rather cynically about the distance between colleges’ expressed expectations for high school students and the reality of highly selective college admissions.  That gap leaves students feeling funneled into an intensely functionalist view of their education even as they are also subjected to rhetoric about passion and intellectual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From junior year to college admissions</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2011/05/from-junior-year-to-college-admissions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 21:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea van Niekerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Admissions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[College visits]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[college applications]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last few months high school juniors stood by as seniors wrestled with college applications, stressed about choices, and finally, exhaled as they picked their colleges.  Now the focus shifts and it is their turn to get ready for the wild ride towards college.  Given how early the application process happens in the academic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>College Goals at UK &amp; EU College Fairs</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/09/college-goals-at-uk-eu-college-fairs/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/09/college-goals-at-uk-eu-college-fairs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Reed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Admissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College visits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We wanted to let everyone know that one of our College Goals consultants, Gail Lewis, will be visiting the UK and several cities in Europe in the coming weeks. Gail will be representing College Goals at USA College Day in London on Saturday, September 25. This is a major gathering of college representatives from over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The “hidden” degree requirements</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/09/the-hidden-degree-requirements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gail Lewis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Admissions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the most important things you will learn at college will never show on your college transcript. These are aspects of affective (versus cognitive) development. They are what employers are expecting to find in college graduates, quite apart from the subject matter of their degree studies, or professional training. Solid affective skill development is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Get Thee to a Nunnery . . .”:  My Experience at a Women’s College</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/08/get-thee-to-a-nunnery/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/08/get-thee-to-a-nunnery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea van Niekerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Admissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college choice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My college search, no doubt, resembled that of many of you reading this.  A couple “safeties”, a “reach”, and the ones where I had a fighting chance.  Good schools, with attractive campuses, dependable financial aid, etc. Fast-forward a few months, and I’d been waitlisted at Georgetown, Dartmouth and Brown and accepted to three of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Promises and Pitfalls of a Gap Year</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/06/promises-and-pitfalls-of-a-gap-year-2/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/06/promises-and-pitfalls-of-a-gap-year-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea van Niekerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Admissions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[college applications]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most high school seniors pursuing a college education are now filling in roommate forms, sending off final transcripts to chosen institutions, and such.  But many others have chosen a different path that will lead not to college after the summer, but to a year of travel or work or service.  Taking a gap year between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting UK and Europe</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/03/visiting-uk-and-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/03/visiting-uk-and-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Reed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Admissions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://collegegoals.com/blog/?p=141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[College Goals&#8217; Director Joyce Reed and Admissions Consultant Andrea Niekerk are both traveling in the UK and Europe in March to see present, past and future client families, and to give presentations.  Joyce and Andrea will be in London between March 8-13.  They still have a few appointment times available, and the best way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The problem with senioritis</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/02/the-problem-with-senioritis/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/02/the-problem-with-senioritis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea van Niekerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Admissions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[senior year grades]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senioritis is when second semester senior grades sag after college acceptance letters arrive. Talking about the problem “of senioritis” seems to lend this bad habit a legitimacy which I doubt it deserves – as if it is something unfortunate but expected. Rather like getting a cold in winter. Of course, having had my own kids [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education for Business</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/02/education-for-business/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/02/education-for-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea van Niekerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Admissions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[college admissions; college applications; business studies; liberal arts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article in Inside Higher Ed was headlined “Freshmen Abandon Business.” The article noted that the percentage of freshmen intending to study business at American universities &#8211; 14.4 percent in 2009 &#8211; was at its lowest since the 1970’s. Yet with twenty-two percent of undergraduates actually concentrating in it, business is the largest major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Along the road to college admission&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/01/watch-where-ur-going/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/01/watch-where-ur-going/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea van Niekerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Admissions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch where you’re going! The college application process can have many unfortunate effects, and one happens when students run around madly padding their resumes with yet one more activity, one more shot at leadership, one more service moment.  The problem is not only that this kind of scattershot business does little to enhance their applications, [...]]]></description>
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