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6 ways to turn your interests into extra-curricular activities for your university application
Business Week recently shared advice from university admission officers: depth means more than breadth when it comes to extra curricular activities. Schools are becoming more familiar and less impressed with “resume padding” in the university application. Susan Chan, the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions at Yale University, comments in a September 2006 article: “We are [...]
Can we predict the outcomes?
Ontario is one of many places where “Outcomes-based Education” has taken hold. This educational philosophy focuses on “outputs” rather than “inputs.” For example, traditional curriculum documents might be nothing more than a table of contents from a textbook, with a suggested time frame for covering each unity. This type of syllabus focuses on educational “inputs” [...]
Sometimes it’s good to be just a face in the crowd
This is my first attempt to inject anything other than text into a post, so let’s see how this goes. I’d really like to say that I don’t advise the following student behaviour, but sometimes university requires doing what it takes to get through. My senior year of university was the first time I ever [...]