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		<title>Waiting on the waitlist</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2012/04/waiting-on-the-waitlist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea van Niekerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Admissions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[High school seniors have opened the envelopes, received emails or logged into websites to discover the result of their college applications.  For many the news was very good or very bad &#8211; they were admitted to a college and have a decision to make, or that college will no longer be on the menu because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost there: the academic performance of accepted students</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2012/03/almost-there-the-academic-performance-of-accepted-students/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2012/03/almost-there-the-academic-performance-of-accepted-students/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea van Niekerk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With March well on its way, many high school seniors have either been accepted into Early application schools or are beginning to receive acceptance letters from their Regular decision colleges. After the celebration and relief, some will begin to believe they are in fact already in college and that high school is, well, so last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>14 Tips for good college visits</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2012/03/14-tips-for-good-college-visits/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2012/03/14-tips-for-good-college-visits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea van Niekerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College visits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Admissions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://collegegoals.com/blog/?p=277</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With spring break ahead, many families are planning campus visits with their juniors and sophomores.  Demonstrating your interest to a college by visiting the campus is a good thing, but not the most important reason for the visit.  Rather, you are exploring a place where you may choose to spend four years of your life, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>College Goals on the Road!</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2012/03/college-goals-on-the-road/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Reed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://collegegoals.com/blog/?p=271</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Come meet College Goals&#8217; founder and director, Joyce Reed, and her colleague, Andrea van Niekerk, in Paris this month! They will offer evening presentations at the American Church of Paris on Tuesday March 20th at 7 PM, Wednesday March 21st at 7:30 PM, and on Friday March 23rd at 7 PM. Joyce and Andrea will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building an education: engineering and college admissions</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2012/02/building-an-education-engineering-and-college-admissions/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2012/02/building-an-education-engineering-and-college-admissions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea van Niekerk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gordon Brown, former Dean of Engineering at MIT, described engineers as operating at “the interface between science and society.”  They apply science to convert resources and solve problems to the benefit of humankind.  No wonder then that many young people, without knowing much about the field at all, are still drawn to it when they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finished with all your college applications???   Not quite!!</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2012/02/finished-with-all-your-college-applications-not-quite/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2012/02/finished-with-all-your-college-applications-not-quite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Reed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://collegegoals.com/blog/?p=261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The big ‘crunch’ of applications through December/mid-January is over. You did it! With at least 8 applications filed, you can sit back now and try to calm the gnawing anxiety as you await the announcements of accept/deny decisions from your colleges, in late March/April 1st. So is that all you can do?? By no means! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking a GAP year!</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2011/10/taking-a-gap-year/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2011/10/taking-a-gap-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Initially, the gap year concept was foreign to me. I am naturally an independent and adventurous person, which is how I ended up at boarding school in the first place. Nonetheless, I felt intimidated by the realness of the opportunity to “gap it.” Not go to college right away? What? No one does that. After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing school: the gap between high school education and college admissions</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2011/06/doing-school-the-gap-between-high-school-education-and-college-admissions/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2011/06/doing-school-the-gap-between-high-school-education-and-college-admissions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 07:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea van Niekerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Admissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College applications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ivy League admissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college application]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denise Clark Pope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doing School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race to Nowhere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiger Mom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://collegegoals.com/blog/?p=242</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of you will have heard me complain rather cynically about the distance between colleges’ expressed expectations for high school students and the reality of highly selective college admissions.  That gap leaves students feeling funneled into an intensely functionalist view of their education even as they are also subjected to rhetoric about passion and intellectual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From junior year to college admissions</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2011/05/from-junior-year-to-college-admissions/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2011/05/from-junior-year-to-college-admissions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 21:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea van Niekerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Admissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College visits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[admission officers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college applications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college counseling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college essay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Application]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high school juniors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://collegegoals.com/blog/?p=236</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last few months high school juniors stood by as seniors wrestled with college applications, stressed about choices, and finally, exhaled as they picked their colleges.  Now the focus shifts and it is their turn to get ready for the wild ride towards college.  Given how early the application process happens in the academic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>College Goals Spring Travels . . .</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2011/02/college-goals-spring-travels/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2011/02/college-goals-spring-travels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Reed</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[College admission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Students]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://collegegoals.com/blog/?p=226</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[College Goals consultants will be in Europe and the U.K. between March 19 – April 9. Joyce Reed and Andrea van Niekerk will give four public presentations in Paris between March 22-24. They will address such topics as ‘Why Study in the United States?’, ‘The College Search and Application Process’, and ‘College Matchmaking: How Students [...]]]></description>
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