Discover how a professional college admissions counselor can guide students toward the right-fit universities and reduce stress for families.
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Discover how Indian high school students can prepare for STEM majors abroad with the right academics, Olympiads, science fairs, research projects, and extracurricular activities that impress top universities.
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Are you considering a Headstart on your path to medical school? That’s a smart move! Let’s talk about how you can prepare for pre-med while you’re still in high school. Medicine is a long haul. High school is what sets it all up. Admissions (Indian or overseas) prefer to see not only marks, but what […]
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Liberal education previously flourished in ancient Indian universities such as Nalanda and Taxila, but later weakened under colonial curricula. Nowadays, in a globalised world where critical thinking replaces rote learning, the liberal arts field is witnessing a very strong resurgence in India, complemented further by the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. In this article, we […]
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Do YOU think STEM majors are only for Science students? Think Again. When we think of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), most of us immediately picture students wearing lab coats working on equations or creating robots. While we’ve always thought science majors belong to those who study physics, chemistry, biology, and/or math, interdisciplinary programs and […]
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Selecting MBBS has always been the aspiration for Indian students. However, with few seats, rigorous competition, and shifting career goals, one must look at alternative lucrative options in healthcare. In 2025, ~22 Lacs candidates appeared for the NEET exam. And they were competing for merely 1 – 1.3 Lacs seats. Additionally, MBBS can be expensive […]
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In all my years of working hard as an entrepreneur, mother, stock analyst, or banker, Grade 12 stands out as the year that demanded the most discipline from me—preparing for my boards in the sciences, taking various entrance exams, and generally just being a teenager! Grade 12 Roadmap: Admission Guidance for College Admissions in the […]
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How to help your child pick the right subjects?
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Musicians, Film makers, animators, art producers and designers – technology companies offer opportunities to participate in creative processes, as well as many jobs, attractive salaries and growth options. Here is a sampling of some creative jobs within technology firms (read art-based jobs because of course, developing software, too, is creative). I have picked a sampling […]
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This article was first published in the Hindu on January 15, 2022. Be it the Ivy Leagues in the U.S., Oxbridge in the U.K., the University of Toronto in Canada or Ashoka University in India, top colleges get thousands of applications for their few hundred seats. However, their admission processes look beyond marks and standardised […]
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What is Economics all about? What are the career options in this field?
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This article first appeared in the Hindu on October 18, 2021. Being a career and college counselor means signing up for a lot of anxiety. We deal with anxious parents, students on a roller coaster of exams, grades, pressure and deadlines. Not to mention hormones. And then we have the performance anxiety of making it […]
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This article first appeared in The Hindu on August 15, 2020. “Never let a good crisis go to waste,” said Winston Churchill during World War II. While entrepreneurs, business leaders, teachers and financial wizards manage to make the crisis work for them, many students are attempting to make the most of their “gap year”. However, […]
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This article first appeared in the Hindu on August 14, 2021. As a country, we are obsessed with grades. According to data from the Ministry of Home Affairs, around 2,500 students commit suicide each year; most due to exam failure. So good and bad grades in Classes 10 and 12 affect mood, self-esteem and future […]
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This article first appeared in the Hindu on May 22, 2021. It is now clear that we are hurtling towards a new world. While Engineering and Medicine continue to explode with possibilities, here are some other career options that are becoming important. This list has been put together after exploring job sites, reports from consulting […]
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This article first appeared in the Hindu on November 13, 2020. Technology, globalisation and digitisation have opened the doors to many exciting opportunities “Why Vice-President, why not President?” This hilarious meme of an Indian parent in the wake of Kamala Harris’ historic win made me laugh but it’s also a reminder of the pressure caused […]
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This article first appeared in the Hindu on December 19, 2020. Does what you do matter? Or is one job as good as the other? How does it matter what you do? Just find the job that pays you the best; as long as it is legal. In fact, why work at all? The luckiest […]
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This article first appeared in the Hindu on February 13, 2021. Here are 10 interesting and exciting interdisciplinary courses from across the world. Interdisciplinary is the thing. This pandemic has led to the almost-demise of the already tenuous boundaries between regions and between job roles and careers. This is the age of the expert who […]
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As a student, you have an opportunity to attend any lecture in any department. This means you could be listening to a Geography lecture one day, and on another day, attending a lecture by a Nobel Laureate in Physics. Most faculty members follow an open-door policy and I have found it very easy to approach almost every single professor that I come across.
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Companies who generally hire engineers are reluctant to hire CS graduates, therefore I did a 4th year to be more at par with the engineering students. In your last year, you can start applying for jobs. Ashoka was quite active in applying for jobs for students. They do help you through the process of getting a job, making the CV, polishing your interview skills.
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