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		<title>The “hidden” degree requirements</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/09/the-hidden-degree-requirements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gail Lewis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Admissions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[college skills]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the most important things  you will learn at college will never show on your college transcript. These are aspects of affective (versus cognitive) development. They are what employers are expecting to find in college graduates, quite apart from the subject matter of their degree studies, or professional training. Solid affective skill development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting UK, France and New York.</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/08/visiting-uk-france-and-new-york-2/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/08/visiting-uk-france-and-new-york-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Reed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Notifications]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[College Goals consultant Andrea van Niekerk will be travelling to visit students and parents elsewhere over the next few weeks.  She will be in London on August 22-23 to meet with client families.  She will also be in Paris from August 31 to September 2, both to work with a local international school on preparing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Get Thee to a Nunnery . . .”:  My Experience at a Women’s College</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/08/get-thee-to-a-nunnery/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/08/get-thee-to-a-nunnery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea van Niekerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Admissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's colleges]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My college search, no doubt, resembled that of many of you reading this.  A couple “safeties”, a “reach”, and the ones where I had a fighting chance.  Good schools, with attractive campuses, dependable financial aid, etc.
Fast-forward a few months, and I’d been waitlisted at Georgetown, Dartmouth and Brown and accepted to three of my eight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Promises and Pitfalls of a Gap Year</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/06/promises-and-pitfalls-of-a-gap-year-2/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/06/promises-and-pitfalls-of-a-gap-year-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea van Niekerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Admissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college applications]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most high school seniors pursuing a college education are now filling in roommate forms, sending off final transcripts to chosen institutions, and such.  But many others have chosen a different path that will lead not to college after the summer, but to a year of travel or work or service.  Taking a gap year between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heard of FIRST Robotics?</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/04/heard-of-first-robotics/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/04/heard-of-first-robotics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gail Lewis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[FIRST Robotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homeschooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovative science education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scholarships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teamwork and mentoring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[young engineers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To create a world where science and technology are celebrated&#8230; where young people dream of becoming science and technology heroes&#8221;
This is the motto of FIRST, whose members include, at last count: 212,000 students, 17,634 robots, 57,376 mentors, 19,134 teams and 34,000 event volunteers.
What is FIRST?
From Wikipedia:
For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations, you have been accepted!  Now what?</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/03/congratulations-you-have-been-accepted-now-what/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/03/congratulations-you-have-been-accepted-now-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea van Niekerk</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[college acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Admissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college choice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many students who applied to regular decision programs now have a big envelope (or more likely these days, an email!) in hand telling them that they have been accepted to a school.  Congratulations! Those who got good news from their dream school feel like they were handed the keys to the kingdom.  For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting UK and Europe</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/03/visiting-uk-and-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce Reed</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Admissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Notifications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://collegegoals.com/blog/?p=141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
College Goals&#8217; Director Joyce Reed and Admissions Consultant Andrea Niekerk are both traveling in the UK and Europe in March to see present, past and future client families, and to give presentations.  Joyce and Andrea will be in London between March 8-13.  They still have a few appointment times available, and the best way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The problem with senioritis</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/02/the-problem-with-senioritis/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/02/the-problem-with-senioritis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea van Niekerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Admissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[senior year grades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[senioritis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Senioritis is when second semester senior grades sag after college acceptance letters arrive.  Talking about the problem “of senioritis” seems to lend this bad habit a legitimacy which I doubt it deserves – as if it is something unfortunate but expected.  Rather like getting a cold in winter.  Of course, having had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education for Business</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/02/education-for-business/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/02/education-for-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea van Niekerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Admissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college admissions; college applications; business studies; liberal arts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article in Inside Higher Ed was headlined “Freshmen Abandon Business.”  The article noted that the percentage of freshmen intending to study business at American universities &#8211; 14.4 percent in 2009 &#8211; was at its lowest since the 1970’s.  Yet with twenty-two percent of undergraduates actually concentrating in it, business is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Along the road to college admission&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/01/watch-where-ur-going/</link>
		<comments>http://collegegoals.com/blog/2010/01/watch-where-ur-going/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea van Niekerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Admissions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch where you’re going!
The college application process can have many unfortunate effects, and one happens when students run around madly padding their resumes with yet one more activity, one more shot at leadership, one more service moment.  The problem is not only that this kind of scattershot business does little to enhance their applications, but [...]]]></description>
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