How To Put Together a More attractive University Admission Essay

August 13th, 2010

How To Put Together a More attractive University Admission Essay

Writing essays and personal statements are crucial part of university admission application. With the ever increasing number of applicants for limited number of college seats, importance of well written coherent essays for securing admission in good universities cannot be overemphasized. Unlike from quantative metrics like GPA and other grades which judge a candidate´s academic ability, university admission essay try to judge the overall persona of the candidate.

The topics  of the essay on which the admissions aspirants are required to write may vary from university to university. Essays are a good medium for a candidate to showcase his/ her real self to the assessors. It is also a chance for the candidate to outshine others by putting up an interesting essay.

When writing the essays for college admission the most common questions in the mind of the candidates are what topics to choose? What should be the tone of essays? Which writing style should they adopt?

The answer to all this question is just one, the essay should be one that impresses the assessor.

If you are a university admission aspirant following tips can help you to put together an attractive university admission essay:

Via the essays the main aim of assessors is to judge your ability to think logically. An essay should be sequenced in a logical fashion which supports a smooth flow of thought. Abrupt breaks in the passage do not reflect well on your stream of thinking.

Try to make the essays interesting. Run of the mill, factual essays would not give you any head start. The assessors are also trying to look at your creative ability. Remember, an admission essay is not a research paper, so it need not be formulaic. An essay that makes an interesting read for assessors has much higher chances of success.

Be imaginative but truthful and sincere. The admission essay should be original and truly reflect ones personality. The admission officers can easily detect any lies beyond beautiful words.

In most of the admission essays the candidate is required to talk about personal incidences. Via this the admission officers are trying to know the real you. So do not pretend to be somebody else. Keep the tone of the essay a conversational one. Narrate the incidences as you would to a friend. Use of humor in right places can not only make your essay interesting for the reader but can also make your essay stand out amongst host of similar ones. Using witty catchy phrases, anecdotes or funny stories can leave a lasting impression on the mind of the reader.

The goal of the candidate should be to make the make the essay memorable. Admission officers read hundreds and thousands of essays to select few. They will not remember each and every essay but if you can make your essay stand out, your chances of selection drastically go up.

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Lincoln University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was chartered in April 1854 as Ashmun Institute. As Horace Mann Bond, ’23, the eighth president of Lincoln University, so eloquently cites in the opening chapter of his book, Education for Freedom, this was “the first institution found anywhere in the world to provide a higher education in the arts and sciences for male youth of African descent.” The story of Lincoln University goes back to the early years of the 19th century and to the ancestors of its founder, John Miller Dickey, and his wife, Sarah Emlen Cresson. The Institute was renamed Lincoln University in 1866 after President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln is surrounded by the rolling farmlands and wooded hilltops of southern Chester County, Pennsylvania. Its campus is conveniently located on Baltimore Pike, about one mile off US Route 1 — 45 miles southwest of Philadelphia, 15 miles northwest of Newark, Delaware, 25 miles west of Wilmington, Delaware, and 55 miles north of Baltimore, Maryland. Since its inception, Lincoln has attracted an interracial and international enrollment from the surrounding community, region, and around the world. The University admitted women students in 1952, and formally associated with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1972 as a state-related, coeducational university. Lincoln currently enrolls approximately 2000 students. Located in southern Chester County, Lincoln is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and

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NRCCUA: National Research Center for College & University Admissions Finds Significant Misconceptions about the Cost of College
According to an annual study conducted among students by the National Research Center for College & University Admissions (NRCCUA), a substantial percentage of students significantly overestimate the cost of college, and dramatically underestimate the amount of financial aid available to them.






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Lee’ According to an annual study conducted among students by the National Research Center for College & University Admissions (NRCCUA), a substantial percentage of students significantly overestimate the cost of college, and dramatically underestimate the amount of financial aid available to them.

This survey was conducted just prior to the start of the 2008-2009 school year and included over 8,000 participants.

According to NRCCUA annual student research:


A significant number of students believe they will not have any access to financial assistance: 33.6% of students estimate that they will receive no financial aid at all, including loans, when attending a major public university.

Students rule out colleges based on cost without a complete understanding: 43% of first generation students report they would not consider a college costing over ,000 per year.

Students have a dramatic misconception about the cost of private AND public colleges: 37.5% of students estimate costs at least 50% higher than the actual average cost of attending a major public university.

NRCCUA is scheduled to reissue this study this month to measure any impact that the current economic conditions may be having on students’ perceptions of paying for college.

About The National Research Center for College & University Admissions (NRCCUA)

NRCCUA operates the nation’s largest college and career planning program, My College Options®. NRCCUA is a non-profit educational research organization based in Lee’s Summit, MO. For 38 years, NRCCUA has conducted the largest nationwide survey of high school students, which serves as a communications link between college-bound high school students and public and private colleges and universities. For more information, visit www.nrccua.org.

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Chiang Mai University Online Tefl Scholarship Contest

August 11th, 2010

Chiang Mai University Online Tefl Scholarship Contest

 

Chiang Mai University Online TEFL Scholarship Contest

The Chiang Mai University Online TEFL Program is pleased to announce the availability of two scholarships for free tuition to our Online TEFL Certification Program.

 

This course has been entirely authored by the experts at the Language Institute.  The content is similar to that of the 120-hour, on campus course but the online curriculum delves deeper into the theory, philosphy and psychology of effictive language teaching.

 

This program offers the convenience of learning at  your own pace from anywhere with an internet connection and can be completed in as little as two weeks or can be taken slowly over six months.

All interested applicants must submit an essay of 300 words or more which addresses the following question.

Why do you want to teach?

All essays should be pasted onto the (Your Message) section of the (Contact Page) on the Chiang Mai University Language Institute web site.

Just visit us at www.teflcmu.com, click on contact and paste your essay.

The deadline for submission is December 31, 2008

The scholarship winners will be announced during the second week in January 2009.

The Scholarships will be awarded to the two best essays.

Please feel free to be creative, funny, serious personal or academic in your approach to this essay.

The scholarships will cover all tuition for the course and certification upon successful completion.

All successful graduates will receive their Chiang Mai University Online TEFL Certification by mail.

Any further questions can be directed to the Chiang Mai Online TEFL Team by using the contact page on the web site.

Good Luck.

We are looking forward to your essays.

Chiang Mai University TEFL Program

 

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Quote start“. . . the first step 79.7% high school students take when researching higher education is to “go online to college websites and online college fairs”Quote end

Boston, MA (PRWEB) March 10, 2010

CollegeWeekLive, the leading web destination which brings high school students and colleges together live online, announced today the largest online admissions event yet: CollegeWeekLive SPRING, Mach 24th and 25th from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM Eastern. An estimated 40,000 teens will login to CollegeWeekLive over two days with one goal in mind – to connect with thousands of admissions representatives from more than 200 higher education institutions from the convenience of a computer.Spring is historically the season when juniors kick off the college search in earnest.

Academic institutions participating in CollegeWeekLive SPRING range from Ivy League institutions to public and private universities and regional leaders in higher education. A complete list of participating schools is available at CollegeWeekLive and below. In addition, organizations such as the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid, HP Academy, Sallie Mae, Knewton, Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority (MEFA), the American Association of Landscape Architects, the Shell Eco-marathon, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) and The ACT are supporting partners of the two-day event. These student services organizations provide a variety of resources to CollegeWeekLive participants helping them to achieve their dreams of a college education.

CollegeWeekLive offers high school students and their families the opportunity to browse information on hundreds of colleges conveniently at one website and chat live with admissions representatives from participating colleges. Teens can attend informal Q&A video webcasts featuring current college students on campuses across the U.S. and around the world, garnering a sense for student life at schools of interest. Attendees can also watch leading experts present live on admissions topics such as the college application process, school fit, and uncovering scholarships and financial aid.

Increasingly, CollegeWeekLive online admission events represent the way teens prefer to research colleges and universities. Based on a March 2010 survey of more than two hundred thousand CollegeWeekLive registrants, the first step 79.7% high school students take when researching higher education is to “go online to college websites and online college fairs”. “Reading through brochures” came in a distant second at 10.9% and “visiting individual college campuses” was cited by just 6.3% of respondents as the first step in college research. For budget-conscious families, CollegeWeekLive represents a way to explore colleges before getting in the car or on a plane to visit a school in person.

If you are a student or a parent interested in attending CollegeWeekLive SPRING, visit www.CollegeWeekLive.com to sign-up for free. If you are an admissions representative interested in participating in CollegeWeekLive, contact 617.938.6000 or Exhibit(at)CollegeWeekLive(dot)com.

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Sharjah University City in the morning – “Uni-Stadt” in Sharjah am Morgen


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This is the entrance to Sharjah University City. I felt I had to stop and take this photography, when seeing this.
I made this picture when driving back from Dubai airport to University of Sharjah after bringing 2 fellows there to catch their plane home to Germany. I think it was between 06:30h and 07:00h in the morning., late September or early October.

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Das ist die Einfahrt in die "Hochschulstadt" in Sharjah.
Das Bild habe ich gemacht, als ich vom Flughafen in Dubai zurückkam zur Uni Sharjah, nachdem ich zwei Kollegen dorthin gefahren habe, weil sie nach Hause nach Deutschland flogen. Es müßte zwischen 06:30 und 07:00 Uhr morgens gewesen sein, im späten September oder frühen Oktober.

College Admission Chances

August 11th, 2010

College Admission Chances

Once you’ve handed in your college applications, you are probably pretty nervous about getting into college. Although you’ve finished your college application, included your high school transcripts, your SAT and ACT scores and your college essay, you are now probably wondering how does the admissions committee choose a college applicant to actually be an admitted student? How do they wade through all this information and come to a decision regarding your college admissions? What matters most and what gets glossed over? We are going to give you more of an inside look into the admissions decision process so that you know what will allow you to find the right college for you.

Transcripts: Your high school transcript is often the most important component of your college application. Your class work load and grades reveal what type of student you are and offer a glimpse into how you would work at their university. However, admissions officers are trained to know the discrepancies among different schools and class schedules. For example, at some schools, it’s easier to land an A than others. They also look at what types of courses you fulfilled. If you took honors classes, advanced placement or international baccalaureate classes, admissions officers will take this workload into account when reviewing your GPA.


Test Scores:
SAT and ACTs are being de-emphasized in many colleges, but these standardized tests do help the admissions officers compare students from different high schools across the nation. Most schools have a range that the majority of students fall under when determining acceptance, but a low test score generally won’t break all chances of getting into college.


Admissions Essay:
The college essay is a way to make you pop off the page. Now, instead of being a series of numbers and grades, you become an individual, unique person. This is therefore an increasingly important factor in the college admissions decision process. We suggest telling an anecdote about your life or your personality and describing how you have learned and grown from that experience.


Letters of Recommendation:
A really good letter of recommendation can really make a difference, but colleges don’t really penalize students when the letter is not written well or only offers superficial information. Here’s some of the stuff that admission officers are looking for:
• Comparisons to others in the class; to those whom the teacher or counselor has worked with in past years; or with students who have enrolled at the college in question.
• Information about grading and/or competition.
• Illustrative examples or anecdotes
• Personal information
• Other personal traits or study habits (e.g., maturity, response to criticism, acceptance by peers, timely completion of assignments, willingness to go beyond what is expected, participation in class discussions)
The law entitles students to see completed recommendations. However, reference forms include a clause that most students sign to waive this right. This enables counselors and teachers to be candid, which is what admission officials prefer. Recommendations normally do become part of a student’s permanent file.


Extracurricular Activities:
Extracurricular activities are important to show that you are an involved student. But with so many high school students doing so much and with so many programs and organizations, teams and clubs and causes, it’s hard to predict what admissions officers will favor. They are really looking for what the activities teach you—qualities like commitment, accomplishment, initiative and leadership and well-roundedness.
Here are some areas they look at:
• How much time does this student devote to an activity? How significant is the contribution? Admission professionals often favor depth over breadth.
• Evidence of leadership is a key factor that can tip the scales in your favor. There’s a difference between the student who joined the Geography Club and the one who founded it.
• Some balance is best. The student who participates in the Science Club, the Drama Club, and is also on the tennis team usually stands out more than the one who only chooses athletics as extras. Similarly, a balance of school related activities (clubs, teams, choirs, etc.) and those which take place elsewhere (volunteering, scouting, church groups, community theater, etc.) shows your horizon exists beyond the schoolyard.
• Volunteering is very important, and the key here is real hands on involvement. Admission people are usually able to differentiate between the candidate who spends every Saturday tutoring and one who volunteered a couple of times so they can add it to their application.
• A few collegiate candidates will up their stock in admission officers’ eyes by being extraordinarily talented in some area or with a truly off-the-wall interest or experience.

So now you know what happens behind the closed doors of the admissions decision. Still, with so many factors go into college admissions decisions that the results can sometimes seem unpredictable and off-the-mark. But don’t try to be someone you’re not—it’s all about being yourself, and that’s what’s going to really make you stand out in your college application.

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Teenagers are fed advice and information on a daily basis about the fierce competition to get into a good college. The College Admissions Guide (www.admissions-guide.info), launched in late May, provides free resources and information to college-bound teenagers, to help them understand the admissions process and how to simplify it. The site aims to eliminate the student frustration with the college admissions process by providing links and articles to a host of information on applying for college, goals and assessments, the financial aid process, and what to do during the waiting period.

The site is the result of efforts taking over two years to create. Years of information and research have been compiled into an easy-to-understand, friendly format that strives to leave no college admissions question unanswered.

The website boasts a forum, where students can post questions and gain feedback from other users, as well as a blog, updated at least thrice a month with news snippets dealing specifically with the admissions process. Occasionally student-submitted questions are posted for visitors to see, and are answered by one of several people involved with the site who possess extensive knowledge about the college admissions process.

About The College Admissions Guide

The College Admissions Guide is a website located at www.admissions-guide.info, which aims to provide comprehensive information and resources about the college admissions process to college-bound high school students. The guide was launched in May 2006 by Fenix Yeo, after two years of research and gathering relevant data. The site covers issues ranging from searching for a college or university to the application process to financial aid.

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What You Need To Comprehend About A Distance Learning Graduate Program

June 13th, 2010

If you’ve been on the internet for more than five minutes, you are sure to be bombarded with web ads for distance learning graduate programs. One of the reasons why there are so many ads for distance learning graduate programs is that they are becoming more and more acceptable in the public view. But you need to have common sense about you when selecting a distance learning graduate program for yourself.

Not For The Health Profession

In general, any distance learning graduate program aimed at any kind of health care professional – whether it’s for conventional or alternative medicine – is not going to be a legitimate degree, but rather just a really expensive piece of paper. Think about it – would you want to go to an acupuncturist who didn’t go to a real school and learning with real bodies, but got a distance learning graduate program?

That’s a bit of an exaggeration, but the idea still applies. There have been chiropractors to CEOs of big companies who have been ferreted out for having fake degrees. The person might still be competent in the job and honestly thought the degree was legitimate, but the degree is still fake. There are so many fraudsters, that it’s hard to get to all of them.

But in some professions, like business, going through a distance learning MBA program is considered just as legitimate a degree as one earned by the traditional methods. This is because of the nature of the work. You can usually do most office work in your head or on the computer. Telecommuting for office work is going up, so naturally, so is getting the education for this line of work.

You Get What You Pay For

Distance learning graduate programs are not cheap. You are looking at least five figures here for your eventual price tag. The average cost of an online MBA is about $10,000 (US). And you will not be allowed to slack off. You will have to hit the books just as hard as someone who has to go to a real classroom. People pay up because it means getting promotions and being qualified for high paying jobs.

Before you sign up for such an expense, be sure your potential distance learning graduate program is accredited. Check with your state’s Department of Education. You also want to check the website of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, a non-profit watchdog of graduate degrees on offer.

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How To Write A College Admission Essay?

June 13th, 2010

You can write a College Admission Essay easily – If only You Understand the Objective Fully.

Are you facing the College Admission Process? Advance Congrats for your success. You will certainly come out successful by learning the intricacies involved – including writing a College Admission Essay – in getting you admitted in a good College or University of your choice.

First of all think about it – why a College Admission Essay is insisted upon? Well – it is the way the Admission Committee – more specifically the Admission Officer – would come to know about your vision, capabilities, line of thinking, mental attitude and comprehensively your inner-self as a person. They are anxious to select a bright student, rather than a clumsy one.

Things are not as what they were in every field – including college admission. There is stiff competition and hundreds of applicants are in the fray for a single seat. More so in the case of Colleges and Universities of fame. Obviously, the admission authorities are compelled to be choosy, to select the best among the bests.

So if you wish to stand a good chance in their selection process, the only opportunity you have is to impress upon them – your individuality, uniqueness and your standing above the rest, through the College Admission Essay. This is a tool completely under your control, since other aspects like your previous records, grades, past achievements, extra-curricular activities etc. can only support your claim for admission.

Simply put, your College Admission Essay will speak for you. Hence you have to make best use of this opportunity in your own interest. Your Essay will be not more than 500 words at best and can be perused within 2 to 3 minutes, to decide upon your admission or rejection.

This follows – you should attach utmost importance to your College Admission Essay.

Remember – the reader of your Essay has the experience and expertise, having scrutinized hundreds of similar Essays earlier. The moment they see it – they will come to know the in and out of you. Therefore a well written College Admission Essay with care and caution will make you in good stead.

But that does not mean they are expecting you to be a Milton or Mark Twine, to write a great Essay. All that is wanted is a simple, honest, truthful and flawless narration of anything – an idea; a thesis; an event or your personal experience in your past life. You need not take great problems to analyze, like down-turn Global economy; Global warming; Presidential election etc. Instead you can write about what you feel on human sufferings; friendship; love; or even your pet dog.

The reader should get absorbed from the beginning to the end of your College Admission Essay – the theme; the flow; simple and clear use of words; clarity on what you wish to tell the reader in an authoritative style. You should take care to edit your Essay – expert writers recommend at least 6 times –before submitting it finally.

That’s all – you are done – you have made a very impressive and purposeful College Admission Essay.

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June 13th, 2010

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Thomas College: Admission Counsellors are there to help you

June 13th, 2010

Thomas College is continuously preparing students to achieve success in their personal and professional lives and for leadership and service in their communities. Thomas College is a private college committed to imparting quality education to undergraduates for careers in business, technology and education. As per records, 94% of Thomas graduates are hired in their respective field of study within 90 days of graduation. The college is so much confident about the placement of their students that it guarantees employment in a student’s chosen field of study through a Guaranteed Job Placement Program.

Students in India have a dream in their hearts of completing their higher education in some of the best colleges in USA. It is not an easy task and nobody can gather all the necessary information by itself only. It generates the need for admission counsellors who are well equipped to provide students with a list of best colleges in USA or any other country. They will know you the correct admission procedure along with the courses offered by these colleges. The right information will help you in getting admission in your desired college.

These admission counsellors are fully trained to direct you to the right university that meets your needs and aspirations. There are many colleges in US including Thomas College that offer quality education with an innovative approach.

Thomas College offers career-specific and liberal arts undergraduate courses in addition to graduate degrees and continuing education courses. These programs serve a variety of professionals who typically attend classes while working full time and volunteering in their communities.

An admission counsellor can help you in selecting right university or college by understanding your academic background and your level of interest. These admission counsellors help you get admission in Thomas College from filing your application to arranging visa of that country.

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