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Make Your Last 2 Years of High School Count!

4/4/2020

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Kavya Balakrishnan

This post is written by Kavya Balakrishnan. Kavya is currently pursuing the IB Program at Hillel Academy in Kingston, Jamaica where she is Head Girl. She is a current College Quo student and will be attending the University of Toronto in September 2020.

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 For most people going into your senior year, this time is exciting. It is the last year of high-school where you will experience college admissions, graduation, a long summer, and the list goes on. However, as much as there is the excitement, senior year can be pretty daunting, but it doesn’t have to be!

I believe that you can make the best of your senior year, but the key to this...start preparing from junior year (grade 12/ lower 6th form) . Here are some tips and advice that I hope will help give your high school years the best ending possible!


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IS A LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE RIGHT FOR YOU?

22/7/2019

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After two and a half years of running College Quo, I've realized that there is a serious gap in how Jamaican (and international) students approach the university selection process. Students generally focus on either 'brand name' private universities (Ivy League, MIT, Stanford, NYU and the works) or large public universities (USF, UCLA, Berkeley, UNC Chapel Hill etc). While these can be great options for you, they are definitely not right for everyone. A small, liberal arts college (LAC) could very well be exactly what you are looking for!

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WHY I STARTED COLLEGE QUO: MY COLLEGE ADMISSION JOURNEY

18/11/2018

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​As a student-entrepreneur, the first question that people tend to ask when they find out about my business is: What made you decide to start this? Well, it's hard to explain - because my decision to start College Quo was a culmination of several things. I didn't wake up one day with a sudden epiphany that I needed to do this. For about a year before I actually made the 'jump', it was always in the back of my mind. I knew that I could do it, but I feared my lack of legitimacy. Why would anyone simply 'take my word for it' that I had enough knowledge to provide these services and get paid for it?

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