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Online Extracurricular Activities: How to Make Them Work for College Admissions

AdmissionSight

Virtual internships and research assistantships Virtual internships show that you can apply what you have learned in real-world scenarios. For example, an internship with a tech startup could help you gain experience in project management and coding while interning for an online magazine could develop your writing and editing skills.

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Best Summer Strategy for High School Freshman Interested in Business

The Koppelman Group

If you are motivated and have a successful job shadow, you might be able to leverage that experience into an internship. You can also look for internship opportunities in your community. We love resources like The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times and even NYTs The Daily. Second, we recommend online classes.

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Best Summer Strategy for High School Freshman Interested in Humanities

The Koppelman Group

Read newspapers, magazines or journal articles. If done right, a job shadow can also often be the first step to securing an internship down the road. If criminology or sociology is more your thing, maybe it's time to read The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. On top of books, you can listen to audiobooks or podcasts.

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So, You Want to Go to Law School?

Top Tier Admissions

What about pursuing a summer internship? Take writing-intensive courses and consider joining the school newspaper, literary magazine, or debate team to hone your writing abilities. Consider factors such as faculty expertise, internship opportunities, and alumni success in the legal field. What are you missing? Publications?

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Dartmouth College Legacy Policies and Guide

The Koppelman Group

Lee Coffin, the Dean of Admissions at Dartmouth, was quoted in the Alumni Magazine, as saying that The children of those graduates are often really important members of the community. These could include additional courses, internships, employment, volunteering, clubs, student groups, immersive learning experiences, and more.

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The Claremont Colleges: Pomona College

Ivy Central

Internships: The Career Development Office offers two distinguished internship programs with the Pomona College Internship Program (PCIP) -- PCIP Semester and PCIP Summer Experience. Students pursuing two majors would be required to complete all the requirements of each major, including the senior exercises.

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How to Transfer to Columbia University 2024-2025

The Koppelman Group

They want a list of media and cultural events like books, magazines, movies, tv shows, museums, gallery shows, theater shows. 100 words or fewer) This is both the most talked about question on the Columbia application, and the silliest. They dont want author names, explanations, nor subtitles.