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You can take the SAT as much as you want, but as college counselors we generally recommend no more than two or three times.

The SAT was not created as a test to improve your abilities. The SAT is supposed to be more like a one time gauge to check your academic competency.

Most colleges will take your highest combined scores from the two or three tests. If you take it more than three times it looks too suspicious and that you are trying to “game” the system.

Colleges want academically competent students and not just studying robots.

With this in mind please do not enter the exams as something you are going to cancel. It is best to be prepared register for the test and then do well, instead of repeating an unnecessary cycle of always “studying” for the SAT.

Besides there are far greater things in life than taking a SAT test.

 For all of your graduates and current students. Here are 7 ways to Raise your GPA.

This is probably one of the hardest or easiest things you can do while preparing for universities. CBS News provides one way to pick college lists. You can find the whole article here. Here are the subtitles for your quick view pleasure.

STEP 1 — Don’t get bogged down in where you “should” apply.

STEP 2 — Know thyself.

STEP 3 — Identify a place to live.

STEP 4 — Information, please.

STEP 5 — Be realistic while maintaining perspective.

For me all you need to do is the following: Come up a list of 10 schools, 5 dream schools,  3 reach schools, and 2 safety schools and include a short reason why you want to go to those schools.

Dream schools are like the Ivy League and Stanford, those with less than 20% acceptance rates is a good gauge. For reach schools are those where your scores and GPA falls in that people will most likely accept you. Depending on the student about 30%-50% acceptance rate. The safety school are the ones you are absolutely sure they will accept you with your current grades/scores.

Remember each application for international students costs anywhere from $80-$100.

I know in Korea it is very difficult to get a job, while studying at school, hakwons, and what not, but perhaps you can open you and your parents’ eyes in the from the following article.

The article is titled “Teens trade lazy summer days for jobs - Work experience seen improving college prospects”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/22/MNGDKR2ORM1.DTL

Here are some highlights of the article:

Admissions deans are loath to suggest that certain types of experiences are better than others, and say they do not hold a lack of paid work against applicants. Still, deans at several elite schools said they are taking more notice when students have unglamorous jobs.

“The people who typically would’ve worked a fish and chips stand or scooped ice cream are gone,” Coffin said. “When we read an (application) folder with work experience we usually comment on it in a very favorable way. If he works 20 hours a week at Stop & Shop, we’ll say, ‘That’s really refreshing and old-fashioned. Good for him.’”

The most important thing is that teenagers do something productive and meaningful, admissions officers said. But they do not give as much credit to a fancy summer activity if it seems more like padding than passion. And, in an age of high anxiety over competition to get into college, that is more and more common.”

“We see essays that say, ‘I spent two weeks in a Chinese orphanage and it changed my life,’ ” said Debra Shaver, director of admission at Smith College. “But where is the pattern showing interest in community service?”

Summer travel and study can make students more worldly or civic-minded, but often fail to teach how to persevere through boredom, take orders, or work with people from different backgrounds, admissions deans say.

Deans of admissions are not stupid. They know if you are trying to pad your resume and/or your application. Be honest and genuine that’s the best way to go. At the same time look for things that excite and interest you. If they don’t accept you at the university it just wasn’t meant to be and move on with your life.

RSS is the future in some ways for the internet. I strongly encourage you to watch the video below and learn this technology.

I really enjoy reading this website, I hope you will too.

It is a website:

This site dedicated to lifehacks. The phrase describes any hacks, tips and tricks that get things done quickly by automating, increase productivity and organizing. This site is built around this theme. It is a frequently updated blog, which provides news and articles which able you to get things done in a faster pace.

You can find the website here: http://www.lifehack.org

You can find the website here. I’ve also included an RSS feed on the bottom right of this webpage just for you.

I may be preaching to the choir, but I think not. Here are some refreshing tips at Life Hack for writing research papers.
How to Write Research Papers that Rock!

Someone took the time to make a directory of all of the free education resources on the internet.

Please check it out for your one stop source for free education.

http://www.eliteskills.com/free_education/

I’m still learning on how to improve my writing and I hope you will to.

Writing is a very powerful tool and it’s good to know the fundamentals of it.

You can check the following websites in order to improve your writing.

• The Online Writing Lab (Owl) by Purdue University

•  40 Tips to improve your grammar by Dumb Little Man dot Com.