Sophie Pauze

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Study Skills: Summer standardized test preparation
Unless, of course, you're applying to graduate school, in which case, read on. The summer is a busy time for aspiring graduate students: lots of graduate school admissions cycles open up in the fall, meaning that MCAT tutors, GRE tutors and GMAT tutors are often the busiest this time of year! That means hoards of students are also working hard to ...
College Admissions: What Do I Do if I End Up on the Wait List?
Samuel Beckett knew what it was like to wind up on the waitlist.
The Writing Tutor: What Level of Writing Do US Schools Require?
You don't have to be James Bond to be a writing tutor, but it helps.
Application Consulting: Is Graduate School Right for Me?
For the past year, I’ve been preparing myself to apply to business school. I’ve spent countless hours doing GMAT prep with a GMAT tutor (i.e. an enormous amount of math problems), and reflecting a lot about why I was even pursuing business school admissions.
Career Advice: Summer Internships!
Just because there's money in it doesn't mean it's a good job.
Getting Organized: Time Management
Does your brain look like this? Then you need to read this post.
Getting Organized: The Essential Science of Time Management
High school and college students today may well be busier than they have ever been: mountainous piles of homework, an unprecedentedly competitive application climate, and an unrelenting tumult of stimulation homing in on students through computers, tablets, and smartphones. Hence, we in the academic consulting industry have found that one of the ...
Business School Admissions: When should you apply?
Today, we’re going to dive into the question of business school admissions deadlines. Should you apply Round 1, Round 2 or Round 3? If you want to backtrack a bit and explore the earlier phases of the business school admissions process, last post we discussed how to map our your narrative for the business school application. You can check it out ...
Business School Admissions: Phase 2 - The Application Narrative
In my last post on the business school admissions process, we explored the first phase of the MBA application process. Before we turn to phase two of the application process, let's review my recommendations for phase 1:
Business School Admissions: The uphill climb to success on the GMAT
The GMAT, for many test takers, poses a major challenge on the route to business school admissions. If you’re feeling bummed out by your first attempt at a high score on the test and didn't do as well as you hoped (in spite of months of standardized test preparation), remember that the GMAT is hard for most test takers. Why is the GMAT such a ...
Middle school summer activities
One of the thorniest problems middle schoolers face every summer is learning loss: while away from the school environment, children risk losing academic skills and rolling back growth achieved during the year. By introducing fun educational activities into your child’s summer schedule, you can help them maintain or even improve their academic ...
Application Consulting: The First Phase of the MBA Application
The first round deadline for most business schools admissions happens in late September or early October. The application process is made up of several phases (preparation and research, writing, interviews), many moving parts (resume, recs, GMAT score, etc.), and also entails a fair amount of writing. In short, it's not a cut and paste, easy ...
Study Skills: The Science of Study
An academic tutor shares insight into the science of study. Understand how the brain works to get the most out of your time spent on standardized test preparation and homework; hone your study skills!
Middle School Academics: Summer Reading 2013
The Middle School Maze is back with a 2013 summer reading list! With July and August just ahead of us, the summer is rife with opportunity to read. While you’re not in school, reading can take on a life of it’s own. Books become openings to new worlds, not the sign of dreaded after-school tasks.
Summer Test Preparation: Vocabulary Building for the SAT
Many students think ahead and wonder how they can use their summer to advance their standardized test preparation, without monopolizing the entire summer break. Vocabulary-building is an easy (and for some, fun) way to improve your verbal SAT score and can be done easily from anywhere, even while you're in transit.
Application Consulting: Free Writing the Personal Statement
"Never stop to look back, to cross something out, to wonder how to spell something, to wonder what word or thought to use, or to think about what you are doing."[1]
College Corner: Writing your College Admissions Essays
Many colleges and universities require a few essays as part of the application, and many colleges and universities provide different prompts...You could be writing 15 different essays by the end of the process, but hold on, you don't have to do that!
The College Corner: Do's & Dont's of the College Interview
Remember that the college interview is as much an opportunity for the school to learn about you as it is for you to learn about the school. There is no right or wrong answer during a college interview – it isn’t a standardized test. Think of it as more of a conversation. Don't stress too much. Applying to college can feel like a drag, so keep this ...
Why Choose an MCAT Tutor?
The decision about how to prepare for the MCAT is an important one.
Language Tutor Tells-All: Listening Comprehension
Dreaming of a trip to Florence…Toulouse…Shanghai…Munich….Barcelona….? Language instructors share tips & resources:
The Middle School Maze V: Learn to Write Early
The middle school years are an exciting turning point during which students start to develop tangible academic skills. Middle school patterns set the stage for long-term academic interests and intellectual passion. Between 11-15, the imagination is ripe, unfiltered, curious…It's prime time to start writing with gusto and abandon.
Middle School Maze IV: The Summer Online Classroom & Academics
The most effective way to keep a middle-school student engaged in learning through the summer is to make academics fun and relevant.
The Middle School Maze III: Summer Reading & Study Skills
Yes, summer fun is important. But reading through the hot months is too, maybe even more so.
The Middle School Maze II: Learning Styles & Study Habits
Middle School is the first time in a student’s academic career that a preferred learning style becomes salient and begins to impact study habits, comprehension and retention. As we progress through our academic careers, learning styles become second nature. Students will often adapt their study habits without even realizing what learning style ...
The expository writer: an introduction
Welcome to "The Expository Writer," a series of posts dedicated to the process of writing expository essays Over the next weeks, we will be thinking aloud in this space about every granular step of writing an expository essay, as well as different writing strategies that work for different people. While an expository essay has to hew to certain ...
The SSAT: Private School Admission & The SAT’s Younger Brother
I. What is the SSAT and why does it matter to me?
Rock your Summer Course with an Academic Tutor.
During the summer months, students from all over the country (And the world!) flock to Cambridge to take advantadge of Boston's prestigious academic institutions. Looking around Harvard Square, we see students of all ages boasting their hometown or college logos, scribbling art-history dates on note-pads in coffee shops, or simply strolling, ...
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