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You weren’t born yesterday: Student life is exciting yet challenging and stressful. You choose a college, decide on loans and personal finance strategies, all while studying, and doing your best to survive assignments and exams. The harder you try, the more it hurts to hear a the rumors and myths about college life nowadays. For incoming …

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Doubtless you’ve heard the term “well-rounded” a thousand times over during your school years. That term may have even inspired you to branch out, to sample a bunch of different extracirriculars or interests in order to appeal to admissions officers. If colleges are looking for well-rounded students, you better get busy rounding yourself out then—right? …

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There are countless college scenes in our favorite movies and TV shows. Often the first image conjured up when associating movies and college is a big party with lots of red Solo cups and silly bets or dares. Or maybe some freshman or new frat member hazing ritual. But there is a world of difference …

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Some of you may have noticed the new trend in college recruitment letters: They are being sent to some students as early as their high school sophomore year. At first this might not make sense. After all, what have students proved with only one year of high school under their belts? It is a surprising …

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It might be tempting if you have a lecture class of 200 students or more, just to stay home and take a nap, or even catch up on another class’s homework. More often than not, lecture classes don’t take attendance. And you can always get the notes from a friend in class, right? Or just …

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Touring a college campus is an integral part to the college selection process–it allows students and parents alike to get a feel for the layout, the atmosphere, and even the culture. But like many other elements of college, the campus tour can be subject to myths, stereotypes, and misconceptions. Hopefully we can clear some of those …

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It makes sense to think that famous schools must be better because, well, they’re famous! Legendary Ivy Leagues and household-name universities might seem like the best option for any student, because if they’re famous they must give a great educational experience, right? And they do, of course, but while the likes of Harvard and Julliard are …

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A city with a high number of population must have a lot of different groups and types of people. It is understandable we want to apply the same principle to universities. The bigger the campus, the more diversity it has, right? But studies have proved wrong what we’ve been believing for years now. Diversity works …

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Due to movies, TV shows, books, and stories passed down from person to person, there seems to be two extremes in terms of freshman roommate: the BFF or the mortal enemy. One or the other. Either you’ll be joined at the hip or you’ll be caught in an endless cycle of passive-aggressive pranks and arguments. …

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There’s no doubt about it, the transition from high school to college is a big step. Graduating high school seniors hear all sorts of things about what to expect their freshman year of college, and unfortunately a lot of those things can be both intimidating and not entirely true. Here are a few myths that …