Cardinal Education Journal
Insights on admissions, testing, and academic life.
Practical guidance on private school, boarding school, and college admissions, plus test prep—from the consultants who help families navigate it firsthand.
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Summer Programs for High Schoolers vs. Internships: Why Internships for High Schoolers Are Best
Read article →: Summer Programs for High Schoolers vs. Internships: Why Internships for High Schoolers Are BestYou’ve probably thought about taking college classes offered to high school students to further your exploration of certain skills. You’ve probably also thought about taking your learning outside the classroom in an internship for high schoolers. Which one should you spend your summer on? Here’s Cardinal Education’s answer as to why we prefer internships over…
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How To Write: The Humorous Essay, for College Applications
Read article →: How To Write: The Humorous Essay, for College ApplicationsThere are all sorts of different essays that you can write for your college applications. The intellectual essay. The identity story. The tale of the underdog. Cardinal Education is here with a series on the different types of angles you’ll want to take in your writing. We’ll start with one of the most fun to…
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How to Avoid Competitive Majors
Read article →: How to Avoid Competitive MajorsMaybe it’s your dream to be an engineer. Or you really love working with computers. Or you managed to score a notoriously impossible 5 on the AP Biology exam, and you took that as a sign of things to come. You may be tempted to mention on your application that you want to apply to…
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What To Do When Waitlisted
Read article →: What To Do When WaitlistedYou open up the latest email from your top choice college, which says there’s an update to your application. You go to the application portal, with the moment of truth just one button click away: here is where you find out whether you’re going to your top choice in the fall. Taking a deep breath,…
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Your School College Counselor vs Independent College Admissions Consultant: Who’s Better?
Read article →: Your School College Counselor vs Independent College Admissions Consultant: Who’s Better?College admissions is now such a standard part of American secondary educational culture that every high school student, whether at a private school or public school, can expect to have a high school counselor assigned to them by their Junior year to help with applying to college. The nature of this counselor may differ, of…
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