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  2. High-stakes, high-stress college essay stirs more anxiety ...

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    The college admission essay, a high-stakes pitch in which applicants have limited words to describe who they are and why campuses should admit them, just got even more stressful for students of color.

  3. Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia

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    Some researchers include a metacognitive component in their definition. In this view, the Dunning–Kruger effect is the thesis that those who are incompetent in a given area tend to be ignorant of their incompetence, i.e., they lack the metacognitive ability to become aware of their incompetence.

  4. Application essay - Wikipedia

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    An admissions or application essay, sometimes also called a personal statement or a statement of purpose, is an essay or other written statement written by an applicant, often a prospective student applying to some college, university, or graduate school. The application essay is a common part of the university and college admissions process.

  5. Wikipedia:Don't cite essays or proposals as if they were ...

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    Essays can be written without much, if any, debate, as opposed to Wikipedia policies and guidelines, which have generally been more thoroughly vetted. Giving a link to an essay without explanation risks misrepresenting it as more than it is. Some essays are widely accepted, but they often represent the views of one or more editors.

  6. Does a College Education Matter Anymore?

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    As the interest rate on government-backed Stafford college loans prepares to double today -- from 3.4% to 6.8% -- for new student borrowers, the value of a post-high school education is, once ...

  7. Opinion: Stop telling Black kids to write about race, trauma ...

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    Requiring Black students to write about trauma reduces and contorts their colorful lives into flat narratives, writes Aya Waller-Bey.

  8. College admissions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Counselors do not complete interviews, write essays, or arrange college visits. [22] Most counselors have responsibility for helping many students and, as a result, it is difficult for them to provide individualized help to a particular student; one estimate was that the average ratio for all high schools of students to counselors was 460 to 1 ...

  9. Should Legacy Status Matter Anymore in College Admissions?

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