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This is an exciting decision by Princeton. The world and we need commitments to the humanities!

A new Princeton Humanities Initiative will bring faculty together from across disciplines to collaborate on shared intellectual projects: https://bit.ly/49WI3ea

So happy for this Smartwriting student--wow!

Nothing like being positively referenced in a good old-fashioned thank you note to the person who referred to us right before the Holidays!🎄🦃

Loving this Donna Ashworth quote today. An excellent reminder to prioritize some things that matter with age: humor, intuition, capacity for stillness, living in the present

Love this reminder from Mary Oliver to contemplate everyday the grass and it’s determination to grow

Yet another SmartWriting student admit to University of Southern California (USC) and vying for a merit scholarship. Wonderful school!

A wonderful Mary Oliver poem as you and your student await final college admissions results. Whatever the results, being “among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locusts” saves all of us daily. Remember they choose you, then you choose them, and it’s all part of the process of “bowing often”...

Smartwriting provides intensive support for your student

Intensive advising could help more students get to college. COVID is highlighting the downsides of losing face-to-face contact in many aspects of life, including education, just as more and more research underscores how critical school relationships can be to students’ success.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/us/act-test-superscore.html?searchResultPosition=1

This makes things easier for your student!

ACT Change Will Allow Students to Retake Individual Sections Starting next September, high schoolers won’t need to repeat the entire ACT exam to improve their score.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/well/family/advice-to-my-college-freshman.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

For all the SmartWriting college freshman out there and all the others, this is a sweet read. We who love you are feeling this way...

Advice to My College Freshman Don’t take other people’s Adderall. Granola bars have a lot of sugar. The stamp goes in the upper right-hand corner of the envelope.