College Peas, LLC
Bring Out Your Inner Awesomeness
Junior and Senior grades
Dear College Peas, I’m very worried about my high school transcript. I did very well freshman and junior year but I completely destroyed my GPA sophmore year. I plan to make all A’s senior year. Is it true colleges focus Read More →
Filling out the ethnicity section
Dear College Peas, I am filling out my common application and I am wondering whether or not I should fill out the ethnicity section. I have read your book and I know that colleges want to increase diversity so as Read More →
Growing up in Europe is not an NTA
Dear College Peas, I was wondering if growing up in Europe counted as a NTA? -Paige Dear Paige, No, growing up in Europe is not an NTA. However, it is does mean your perspective is different than that of Read More →
Stanford Admissions Essays: What matters to you, and why?
This is the question from the 2011 Stanford application. This is a tough question for anyone to answer without sounding sappy or trite. It is also easy to sound preachy. This is another way of asking what you value. A value can be thought of as an emotional state. Read More →
College Entrepreneurs
Starting a business is a fantastic Non-Teenage Activity. As a student you have low risk, high reward. Even if you never make a dime you will have a great experience and you will stand out in the eyes of the Read More →
Jasmine Roberts- The April 2011 Scholarship Winner!
College Peas is all about getting into selective colleges against the odds. A central theme of the strategy I propose is an NTA or Non-Teenager Activity. I hate to say it, but to many adults teenagers tend to look like Read More →
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