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In the past few weeks, I've had people reach out to me for help with their consulting interviews - from personal experience, PrepLounge is by far the best way to ace a case study interview (https://www.preplounge.com). Happy casing!

iEdit is back! We just opened our doors for this calendar year and as always, we are looking forward to your applications, essays and admissions questions.

The value of education is a topic that frequently engulfs our discussions here at the iEdit office. Monetizing the student experience seems to be the norm today, with universities charging above-market-prices - essentially treating your education as a luxury good.

George Washington University is perhaps the emblem of luxury education for the sake of luxury education. In the words of its president, we present you the leading monetization practices among contemporary universities:

"Mr. Trachtenberg convinced people that George Washington was worth a lot more money by charging a lot more money. Unlike most college presidents, he was surprisingly candid about his strategy. College is like vodka, he liked to explain. Vodka is by definition a flavorless beverage. It all tastes the same. But people will spend $30 for a bottle of Absolut because of the brand. A Timex watch costs $20, a Rolex $10,000. They both tell the same time."

Makes you rethink of how much you value that degree, doesn't it?

With love and unending curiosity,
the iEdit gang

How to Raise a University’s Profile: Pricing and Packaging The transformation of George Washington from humble commuter school into nationally known university has served as a model for other striving campuses. The direction: up!

Greetings fellow iEdit-ers!

This past Tuesday, one of our brilliant consultants, Greg, shared this app called "SelfControl" to our group chat. The application essentially protects you from, well, yourself.

If you’re addicted to the internet, Facebook, Twitter and other social networks; there’s nothing to stop you from constantly launching the browser and surfing. “Just 5 minutes,” that’s what you keep telling yourself. Before you know it, over an hour has passed and you still haven’t gotten any work done. In these situations, only Self Control can prevent you from straying - the app blocks a specified list of websites for distinct periods of time, thus preventing you from accessing any distracting websites.

Inspired by Greg's flash of brilliance, we embarked on a journey to find the top productivity-enhancing applications out there. So here we go, the list that every student (lazy, or not) has been waiting for.

Focus away!

With much love,
the iEdit bandits

10 Online Tools for Better Attention & Focus Finding focus is rapidly becoming the biggest workplace challenge. We highlight a handful of apps to help cure internet addictions and better manage your time.

Hello fellow iEdit-ers!

We often come across students who express their difficulty in taking notes. Given our passion for helping others attain their educational goals, we always try to help those students become better note-takers and by extension, more skilled information-holders. For instance, we typically recommend using a mind map to navigate across divergent types of information.

In this short piece however, you can find not only the mind map technique, but also 2 additional note-taking strategies. Trust us, taking notes is essential and this great Edudemic piece will make it even easier for you!

P.S: Edudemic is an amazing blog for educators and learners alike - we highly recommend taking a look when you got the time.

Read on!
the iEdit crew

The Most Effective Way to Take Notes in Class | Edudemic Notetaking is a skill that students will take with them into their careers. Whether they are in meetings, participating in brainstorming sessions, or making annotations during reading, notes are an effective way of learning, retaining, and recalling ideas and concepts. This article talks about the t…

So, whats your excuse for not launching your own startup?

No pressure, of course.

We did however find this article thought-provoking and truly reflective of our thinking prior to launching iEdit.

This Business Insider short article pretty much tackles all the doubts and concerns that people have about starting their own start-up. Nobody will tell you that it isn't hard, but it is today more than ever that individuals have a chance to become global players and take advantage of the emerging opportunities for technological innovation.

And in case you need to actually start your own venture sometime soon, here is Stanford's CS183B Class - also known as "How to Start a Startup."

https://startupclass.co

It literally gives away all the information anyone will ever need to make his/her dream start-up come true.

Do you have what it takes to make it happen?

This graphic will demolish every excuse you have for not founding a startup The time is now.

"Study after study has shown a yawning educational achievement gap between the poorest and wealthiest children in America. But what does this gap costs in terms of lost economic growth and tax revenue?

That’s what researchers at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth set out to discover in a new study that concluded the United States could ultimately enrich everybody by improving educational performance for the typical student."

Now take a step back and imagine this gap being closed on a global scale. What would this mean for innovation, creativity and general welfare? Here at iEdit, we found the potential of closing this gap fascinating, and we hope you do too.

Much love,
the iEdit team

Closing Education Gap Will Lift Economy, a Study Finds A research group says that by improving educational performance, the United States could increase its gross domestic product over the next 35 years.

Ever dreamed of how you'd feel reading your admissions files? Well, these kids from Stanford did exactly that; they got copies of their educational records by taking advantage of a legal precedent.

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Students Gain Access to Files on Admission to Stanford A small group at Stanford has taken advantage of a law that allows students to get copies of their educational records, and is encouraging others to do the same.

Today in our global Skype call, some of our consultants begun a discussion on exactly how much education has provided to all of us. It was an amazing chat and it all started from this very piece of writing.

For Kareem (pictured below), education became a pathway to a better life; we truly hope you find some inspiration in this great article from the NYT and as always, feel free to send us your thoughts.

Read on!

A Brooklyn School’s Curriculum Includes Ambition Mott Hall Bridges Academy, a public middle school in Brownsville, Brooklyn, the poorest neighborhood in New York City, is seen by many as a safe zone in a crime-plagued area, and a gateway out of generational poverty.

Education is a globalized game and this article is all about that. Our consultants here at iEdit thought that this article might interest some of the Chinese students that have reached out to us in recent months.

The numbers: almost 60% of the added international students that applied to U.S institutions in 2013 were Chinese, spearheading a wider preference of an American over a British education.

The outcome: tougher admissions rates for international students and more strict admissions criteria. (i.e. higher SAT scores required, tougher screening of admissions essays, relatively less interview slots provided)

The solution: in one word, iEdit.

Chinese Students Lead Foreign Surge at U.S. Colleges In 2013-14, American colleges enrolled a record 886,052 foreigners, an increase of 8 percent from the previous year. Chinese were almost 60 percent of the growth in foreign students.

Hello all,

In yet another mezmerizing Ted talk, Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.

Hope you all enjoy this as much as we did!

With much love,
the iEdit team

Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring t...