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Why Summer Jobs Can Be Your Secret Weapon in College Applications
Discover how Summer Jobs can be your secret weapon in college applications. Learn how Summer Jobs boost resumes and open doors to future opportunities.
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Jun 254 min read
Congratulations To Our Seniors!
Kingfisher Prep CEO, Nathaniel Dolquist, with two of our students at their graduation in NYC A huge CON-GRADUATIONS to our amazing...
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Jun 41 min read
Helping Kids in Hospitals Through Starlight Children's Foundation
Kingfisher Prep is Sponsoring Runners for RunDisney through Starlight Children's Foundation We have exciting news! Kingfisher Prep is...
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May 71 min read
What Should 10th and 11th Graders Do During the Summer?
What Should 10th and 11th Graders Do During the Summer? What should 10th (going into 11th) and 11th (going into 12th) graders do during...
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Apr 303 min read
Helping Kids Through Burnout
Ah, the end of the school year: seniors are totally checked out, juniors are (momentarily) regretting their decision to take so many AP...
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Apr 233 min read
Five Tips for Rescuing Bad Grades
Photo Credit: Matthew Benoit Five Tips For Rescuing Bad Grades Sometimes parents call us with some bad news: their student is failing one...
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Mar 262 min read
Five Summer Program Application Tips
Many high school students apply to summer programs, but when asked why they’re applying, many of them tell us, “it will look good on my...
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Mar 122 min read
Writing Professional Emails
My students frequently ask me to look over the emails they’re sending to colleges or teachers, and thank God they do because many, MANY...
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Jan 232 min read
College Application Mistakes: Too Many Schools
Earlier this week a student came in with a list of 40 schools he wanted to apply to. That’s a good way to start! But the Common App will...
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Sep 6, 20222 min read
What My Teachers Did for Me
Mr. Hogan taught me that reading wasn’t enough: I needed to internalize and take good notes. Mrs. Mac let me cry on her shoulder in the...
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Aug 10, 20222 min read
What Do You Know About Rejection?
When I was a sophomore at Yale, my acting professor Toni Dorfman looked at the class over the top of her Hogwarts-level spectacles and...
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Jun 1, 20223 min read
For Unmotivated Students: Battling Burnout
Even the brightest kids go through periods of boredom and lack of motivation. Burnout is becoming more common, and it’s not the student’s...
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May 17, 20222 min read
The Ivy League Sparkle
I recently helped a high school sophomore with his application to Cornell’s Precollege Studies program . As he wrote and I edited, I...
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Mar 31, 20222 min read
A Yale Admissions Story
When I was in the fifth grade, I asked my cousin what colleges were the most difficult to get into. “Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and...
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Mar 31, 20223 min read
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