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Creating a Student Profile on LinkedIn

LinkedIn is an important place to make business connections. But how can you create an effective profile when you are still a student? Here are a few tips to produce a LinkedIn profile that will get the attention of everyone from college admissions officers to potential employers. Have a professional profile picture – What does …

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Tips to Help You Recover from Student Burnout

This month, we’ve covered tips to help you avoid student burnout and indicators that you may be experiencing academic burnout. Today, we want to wrap up this series of articles by giving you a few ways to recover from student burnout if you are currently experiencing it. Don’t ignore it – The number one thing …

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How to Identify Student Burnout

Student mental health is an important topic. We want to consider a list of indicators that may reveal you are experiencing student burnout. However, please keep in mind that this is not a medical blog. Some of the symptoms listed here could be related to health conditions that require the assistance of a medical professional. …

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Health Tips to Reduce the Risk of Student Burnout

Student burnout is becoming so common that we need to spend several articles covering tips to help you prevent it or recover if you are already experiencing it. In this week’s blog, we’ll consider some health tips to reduce the risk of student burnout. Regular Exercise – Exercise is good for both your physical and …

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Tips to Help Prevent Student Burnout

There is so much pressure on high school students (and sometimes even younger students) to have a flawless record that will get them into the best possible university that student burnout is becoming increasingly common. Here are a few tips to help you avoid getting overwhelmed academically. Priorities – You need to sort out what …

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What Do College Rankings Really Measure?

Before we get into our article, the first thing you need to know is that we’re not telling you to ignore college rankings. What we are saying is that you need to know what the college rankings site you are looking at takes into account. For example, U.S. News (arguably the most well-known college ranking …

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Tips for Writing a Top-Notch “Why Us” College Essay

If you’re not familiar with the term “why us,” it basically refers to any college application where the essay topic is to explain why you chose that school or why you think you are a good fit for their program. With that in mind, here are a few tips to help you get your essay …

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Top Tips for Choosing a College Major

Just choosing a college major can be a difficult and even stressful part of the planning process. Here are a few tips to help set your mind at ease while also assisting you in making the best decision possible. Think about the schools you are applying to – Consider the program in your chosen major …

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SAT Exam Changes – What You Need to Know

Standardized tests are not going anywhere anytime soon. While the pandemic threatened the test for a time, the fact is that the College Board is not even going through with plans to let students take the test at home. So yes, you are still going to have to go to a testing site. However, there …

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College Planning for Families

In some households, parents take the responsibility upon themselves to put their kids through college. Because of this, they want control of the planning process as well. In other families, youths plot their own education course 100% independent of their parents. However, at College Planning Source, we find that the best results come when families …

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