Brennan Barnard
The Application TrailI have written about college admission for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Forbes.com, HuffPost, San Francisco Examiner, Concord Monitor, Journal of College Admission, and Inside Higher Ed. Now I write for YOU!
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Who Is Your Person?
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As we close out National Mentoring Month, I am sharing a piece I recently wrote for Forbes. It is about the power of at least one invested adult in college student success, and the questions that applicants should ask...
Don’t Skip A Crucial Step In College Admission
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“In social sciences, we like to call it mesearch, instead of research.” This is how bestselling author and professor Brené Brown explained the launch of her journey as a vulnerability researcher, looking at her own exper...
Go Wilde For College Admission In The New Year
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As the calendar flips to January, we will be assaulted with invitations to reinvent ourselves, resolve to be better, and commit to the motto of “a new year, a new you.” There is nothing inherently wrong with self-improve...
Don’t Get Sloppy With College Admission
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The votes are in at dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster, and their word of the year is “slop.” It is a word that sounds as messy and unappealing as it is defined. It was chosen by their editors specifically to describe...
College List Building Part II: Outside The Echo Chamber
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In my last post, I shared an exercise that high school juniors and their families can use to begin building their college list. It is intended to identify schools that are known to you and to spark conversation about why...
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