Pavita Singh, MPH: How To Write A Killer College Essay For The College Admission You Deserve

This post was co-written with Sushma Sharma of Konversai.


This article originally appeared on Konversai.

 




As a high school senior or rising senior, you’ve worked so hard these past 12 years and you’re just about ready for the next chapter of your life. You’ve...

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W. Kent Barnds: Don't Fear General Education

I think most of you know that my recent series of blog posts and podcasts was inspired by a review of a leftover box of recruitment materials a colleague passed along to me. This review revealed the many promises made by colleges and universities, along with great mysteries about important...

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Mike Krzyzewski: 'I’m Recruiting More And More Intensely Than At Any Other Time In My Career'

With over 1,000 wins to his name, Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski is the winningest coach in NCAA Division I history. He has won five national championships ― most recently in 2015 ― and is both an inductee of the Naismith Memorial and College Basketball Halls of Fame. And, at 69 years o...

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Matt Farrell Has Emotional Surprise Reunion With Deployed Brother

College basketball player Matt Farrell was overcome with emotion when the soldier brother he thought was serving in Afghanistan paid him a surprise on-court visit.
The Notre Dame junior point guard was speaking with his older sibling Bo Farrell on the big screen via what he believed was a vid...

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Ken Reed: McCaffrey And Fournette Recognize Their Value, Use Their Leverage

I get the arguments of those people blasting Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey and LSU’s Leonard Fournette for skipping their bowl games to prepare for the NFL draft.


Being on a sports team is about being part of a band of brothers (or sisters) with a common cause. And McCaffrey...

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Terry Lyons: The Story of "Bad News" Barnes

“Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
From now on, our troubles will be out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the Yuletide gay
From now on, our troubles will be miles away
Here we are as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful...

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David Halperin: For-Profit Computer Systems Institute Stays Alive

On April 15, 2016, the U.S. Department of Education cut off federal student grants and loans to the Skokie, Illinois-based for-profit college chain Computer Systems Institute (CSI), citing detailed evidence of fraudulent conduct. Denying CSI’s appeal from its initial January 2016 ...

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The 20 Funniest Tweets From Women This Week

The ladies of Twitter never fail to brighten our days with their brilliant ― but succinct ― wisdom. Each week, HuffPost Women rounds up hilarious 140-character musings. For this week’s great tweets from women, scroll through the list below. Then visit our Funniest Tweets From Women page for o...

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John A. Tures: Why Travis Rudolph Should Win The 2016 Heisman Trophy For His Selfless Act

On December 10, 2016, some college athlete will be crowned the next Heisman Trophy Winner, the award given to the most outstanding football player. While it will likely go to one of these five players, it should go to someone who wasn’t invited, Florida State University Wide Receiver...

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David Halperin: Department Of Education Requires 25 Percent Letter Of Credit To Approve University Of Phoenix Owner Change

The U.S. Department of Education today approved the application of the Apollo Education Group, owner of the University of Phoenix, to convert from being a publicly-traded company to one owned by private equity firms and still keep its eligibility for federal student grants and loans. But in...

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Quora: Does College Make You a Better Coder?

Does college make you a better coder? originally appeared on Quora – the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.


Answer by Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org, tech entrepreneur/investor, on Quora:

Does college make you a better...

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David Halperin: McCain Slams Pentagon For Protecting Troops From For-Profit College Abuses

Senate Armed Services Committee chairman John McCain (R-AZ) held a hearing last week for the express purpose of attacking the Defense Department’s 2015 decision to temporarily ban the for-profit University of Phoenix from recruiting U.S. military service members. Even though the ...

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Why is State U recruiting so many out-of-state students? And what it means for higher ed.

Writing in the New York Times last month, Laura Pappano offered a thoughtful analysis of the efforts by public colleges – principally public flagship universities – to find new sources of revenue, diversify their student bodies, and expand their national reputations. It’s...

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Dr. Brian C. Mitchell: Why is State U recruiting so many out-of-state students? And what it means for higher ed.

Writing in the New York Times last month, Laura Pappano offered a thoughtful analysis of the efforts by public colleges – principally public flagship universities – to find new sources of revenue, diversify their student bodies, and expand their national reputations. It’s...

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Gloria Larson: Be the Captain of your Intern Ship

As president of a leading business university, I frequently speak with students and parents about the importance of internships in their preparation for life after college. While the job market is stronger than ever — in fact, the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)...

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Read The Heart-Wrenching Letter One Woman Wrote To Her Rapist

Amy-Lee Goodman was 27 when she was raped in the spring of 2015 by her roommate’s boyfriend, Szymon Chodakowski. A year and a half later ― after multiple plea deals were rejected ― the case went to trial and Chodakowski was found guilty on two felony counts: rape and sex abuse. 
On Nov. 29, C...

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Peter Mandel: Why Campus Technology Was Better in the 1970s

Sophomore slump. Even the phrase sounds wet and flat.


It won’t stop raining and sleeting and snowing. Your dorm smells like mold. And unlike just a couple of months earlier, you can’t drum up much of an interest in “Introductory Sub-Aquatic Ecology” or...

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NerdWallet: 4 Student Loan Tips That Might Actually Be Terrible Advice

There’s plenty of advice available for managing student loans, some of it good and some not so good. But you should be wary of a one-size-fits-all approach. Depending on your circumstances, some common tips for handling student debt could backfire.


Before following these four tips,...

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Trevor Noah's Interview With Tomi Lahren Is A Perfect Example Of Why The White Liberal 'Discourse' Fetish Is So Damn Absurd.

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While many have trumpeted Trevor Noah’s sit-down with right-wing commentator Tomi Lahren as proof that discussion works, it’s more often a cutting argument for the exact opposite.



Whether or not you know it, comedy news “annihilates,” “demolishes,” “eviscerates,” or “des...

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Student Emails Her Teacher While Hopped Up On Drugs After Surgery

Well, someone gets an A+ for hilarity.
An email that a college student wrote to her teacher while under the influence of hydrocodone, an opioid pain medication that can cause confusion, after dental surgery is going viral.
Abby Jo Hamele, a 19-year-old student at the University of N...

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Marjorie Hansen Shaevitz: More Mistakes to Avoid When Completing College Apps

By now, most students have returned to school and fall semester is under way. For seniors, the college application process has begun (or is beginning now). In my last blog, I identified four common, but avoidable mistakes college applicants make in completing applications, and promised to...

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Rigel Robinson: The #SleepRevolution Is Coming To UC Berkeley

The Huffington Post and the ASUC Office of the Academic Affairs Vice President are excited to bring the #SleepRevolution to UC Berkeley!


The Huffington Post Sleep Revolution will be taking the nation by storm this spring, headlined by a new book from Arianna and a tour of 50 colleges and...

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These Two Students Had Their College Newspaper Confiscated After Publishing An LGTBQ Article

Jordan Ryner and Zach Schneider, both seniors at Ohio’s Cedarville University, said they hadn’t run into any problems handing out their independently-run school newspaper, The Ventriloquist, until this past issue.


The two suspect that their Baptist school’s...

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John Seery: College at Its Best (Hint: Small and Real)

We declare this: America’s small liberal arts colleges (“SLACs”) ought to be regarded as the gold-standard model for college education–and anything falling short of that model should indeed be understood as a compromise, a departure from the best. SLACs feature...

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David Halperin: College Staffed By Ex-Trump University Executives Tells Employees To Avoid The Media

Tampa-based college Ultimate Medical Academy (UMA), whose co-CEO was the chief operating officer of controversial Trump University, has emailed its employees regarding an article that Republic Report published earlier this week. UMA CEO Steven Kemler wrote to his staff (see images below)...

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College Is A Time To Define Yourself Through Action

I have been a lot of things in my life. I’ve had the privilege of saying, “I’m a mom,” “I’m a friend,” and “I’m a professor.” What I have realized, however, is that those are titles easy to give to yourself.


I’ve noticed...

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Patti Giggans: Denim Day: Making a Social Statement with a Fashion Statement

What happened in 1999 that brings us together on this 17th annual Denim Day, Peace Over Violence’s sexual violence prevention education campaign? The Denim Day story began in Italy after a Supreme Court justice overturned a lower court’s rape conviction ruling that because the...

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Kanye West Actually Made Some Pretty Good Points On Twitter For Once

On Tuesday, rapper and prolific tweeter Kanye West shared some thoughts about the high cost of education, specifically college textbooks. 
Unlike some of his other tweets, West’s comments were about a serious issue that major politicians have already started working on.
First, here ...

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Report Highlights States' Efforts To Ensure College- And Career-Readiness

For its seventh annual “Closing the Expectations Gap” report, Achieve surveyed all 50 states and the District of Columbia about their college- and career-ready (CCR) policies, including aligning standards, graduation requirements, assessments and accountability systems with the expectations ...

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Alex Beasley: You Are What You Sleep

If I asked you to think of the last time that you slept poorly, that would probably be easy to recall, wouldn’t it?


What about the last time you were well-rested? And not just quality sleep for one night, but chronically well-rested, well-rested over a long period of time?...

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'The Daily Show' Mocks Internet Journalism... Again

Jon Stewart loves mocking CNN and Fox News, but he seems to have a special place in his heart for online media outlets, such as the one upon which you have just clicked (hi, friend!).


On Wednesday, Stewart sent correspondent Jordan Klepper out to look at how the Internet and social media...

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A Majority Of Women Wish Men Would Shave Or Trim Their Leg Hair

Is a whole new form of “manscaping” going to spread across the legs of men everywhere?
As featured on a segment on the Today Show this week, a survey conducted by Men’s Health last year showed that nearly half of the 580 men who responded said they “legscape,” w...

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Seth Abramson: The Ohio State Buckeyes Are Flagrantly Overrated

Pundits and Ohio State boosters have managed to convince college football fans, cable pundits, and the College Football Playoff committee that the Buckeyes should be the first team ever to not play in a conference championship and make the National Playoff anyway.
Good for them. The...

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17 Colleges With The Highest Rated Professors

The University of Mississippi has the best professors in the country, according to an analysis from Rate My Professors.
Rate My Professors, a website where students can rate and review their college instructors, released its annual rankings of the best professors and schools this ...

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Martha Kate Stainsby: Dear College Girl

Two years ago I was you. Six years ago I walked around the campus that would become my home and became you. And today I get the privilege of working with you. You truly are some of my very favorite people. I love college and college students. I truly do. Just today I stood on my alma...

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