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Things You DON’T Want In Your College Admission Essay
These days, it seems that university admission committees think that acing your SATs, boosting your GPA, and having glowing recommendations are not good enough to guarantee admission to your dream school. After the entrance exams and submission of other requirements, they still require you to write a college admission essay. True, the essay is an added work, but it is your opportunity to market yourself to your dream university. Application essays allow you another opportunity to convince the school board to accept you. It also gives the board an overview of how you are as a student and individual. Therefore, the prospect of writing your college application essay must not be taken lightly – your essay can spell the difference between acceptance and rejection.
Even if a college admission essay is your chance to express yourself, it requires good and effective writing. Just typing something up does not qualify as an admission essay – this is your best bet if you want your essay to meet the document shredder. Good and effective writing means that you have to curb your enthusiasm for self-expression and be on guard about things that have the potential to ruin your essay. A study on admission essays submitted in recent years show several common mistakes. These mistakes range from content to grammatical mistakes – the very things you don’t want in your essay.
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Accredited Distance Learning – An Option For the Gifted Child
Whether your gifted child is enrolled in a traditional school or a homeschool, finding enrichment to meet his individual needs can be a challenge. Many traditional schools simply cannot meet the individual needs of a gifted child and parents end up scrambling to try to find enrichment opportunities. Many homeschool parents find it an overwhelming challenge to try to meet the extraordinary needs of their gifted child. One viable option for many gifted students is an accredited distance learning program.
A variety of distance learning opportunities are available for your gifted child. In evaluating these options, take some time to first define what you’re looking for in a distance learning program. Most gifted children have specific areas of interest or expertise. Be sure to identify those areas of interest and look for programs with strength and depth in their course offerings.
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Making the Grade – The Advantages of a Distance Learning School
Today’s homeschooling parents have many services available to help support the education of their children. By far one of the most important services used by today’s homeschooling parents are those provided by distance learning schools. An increasingly popular option for parents that homeschool their children, distance learning schools have grown both in reputation and quality over the past few years and are now in direct competition with traditional public and private schools.
Although some parents may be weary of allowing an external source to contribute to the education of their children, there are many benefits to making the decision to include a distance learning program in an existing homeschooling curriculum. Among the many advantages to the idea of distance learning schools are their flexibility, their ability to be individually tailored, the individual attention they give students, and the high rate of college admission that is associated with them.
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