Posted on: 01 Jan 2026
Imagine you’re interested in psychology, but your school only offers an introductory survey course…which you’ve already taken. Perhaps you’ve always wanted to be a lawyer, but legal dramas on Netflix are your sole source of career insight. Maybe you’re curious about a profession that can be notoriously difficult to gain exposure to in high school, […]
Posted on: 01 Jan 2026
Calculus, English literature, history, Spanish, biology…if you’re a typical high school student, this is likely a good representation of your academic schedule. However, if you want to dive into a special topic or have a budding curiosity about a particular career path, you might be wondering where to begin. Perhaps your brief study of cellular […]
Posted on: 30 Dec 2025
What subjects keep you up at night, have sent you down many a Google rabbit hole, or currently dominate your podcast playlist? If those subjects happen to be genome engineering, physiology, fintech, space exploration, political systems, psychology, the relationship between economics and business, the legal system, medicine, or engineering, you’re in luck. Well-known for its […]
Posted on: 19 Dec 2025
When preparing for the SAT or ACT, your strengths, challenges, and goals should guide your study approach. For example, let’s say you haven’t taken the SAT yet but want to build as many skills as possible for the Reading & Writing sections, which have been a struggle during practice tests. Perhaps you’ve taken the ACT […]
Posted on: 02 Dec 2025
Looking to improve your language skills, or even learn a brand-new language from scratch? You’ve likely heard of the benefits of language immersion, a teaching method that creates an optimal environment for learning a second language. Rather than memorizing endless vocabulary lists or learning about your new language, you experience everything in your target language, […]
Posted on: 18 Nov 2025
When college application season arrives, it’s easy for students to become overwhelmed about the essays. There’s the personal statement, which many students must write for at least one school on their list, and then there are the supplemental essays. Supplemental essays can cover a range of topics, including community, diversity, college-specific fit, and prospective major, […]
Posted on: 07 Nov 2025
At all nine UC campuses (Berkeley, Santa Barbara, UCLA, Riverside, Irvine, Davis, San Diego, Santa Cruz, and Merced), admissions officers learn more about how you spend your time outside of school via the UC app’s “Activities and awards” section. If this is your first application of the season, you’re probably wondering how the heck to […]
Posted on: 04 Nov 2025
Sometimes I think: What would happen if Apple Maps disappeared tomorrow!? This thought is typically followed by low-key panic—“Awesome, I have absolutely zero navigational skills! I will be useless during the apocalypse!”— and a healthy level of self-annoyance. Although I managed to drive from New England to Florida using only a paper map fifteen years […]