Hope College - Great College Advice https://greatcollegeadvice.com College Admission Counseling Wed, 13 Aug 2025 22:51:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/758df36141c47d1f8f375b9cc39a9095.png Hope College - Great College Advice https://greatcollegeadvice.com 32 32 The liberal arts can be a liberating educational force https://greatcollegeadvice.com/blog/finding-oneself-in-the-liberal-arts/ Tue, 14 Feb 2017 17:08:09 +0000 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/?p=16325 An international student describes the difficulties of his complex origins, and the solace he found in a liberal arts major.

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]]> In a striking opinion piece published in the New York Times, Joshua Kam describes the angst of being a cosmopolitan international student in Middle America. After finding the right college and finding the right major for him, he often found himself struggling to explain his origins to people he met, and justifying a liberal arts major that helped him find context in his life.

This is another example of how the liberal arts are truly “liberating.”  This young man’s foray into history and the Classics have taught him a great deal about himself.  While it’s true that college students will someday emerge from the cocoon of college into the wide, wide world to make a living, the educational experience of the liberal arts can help students understand their world better, improve their ability to communicate with others, and sharpen one’s analytical skills in ways that are hard to quantify.

The good thing is that employers are looking for students like this one (who studies at Hope College in Michigan–which is a member of the Colleges That Change Lives consortium) who can elegantly argue a case in the court of public opinion.
Read the piece here.

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]]> Find Perfect College With a Counselor https://greatcollegeadvice.com/blog/student-finds-perfect-college-with-help-of-expert-college-counselor-in-denver/ Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:24:16 +0000 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/?p=3877 It’s so fun to hear from students who have successfully found the perfect college…a place that really fits their academic and personal interests and abilities. This short video was created...

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]]> It’s so fun to hear from students who have successfully found the perfect college…a place that really fits their academic and personal interests and abilities.

This short video was created by one of my former students who is now at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.  His family hired me as their college counselor to help this young man figure out what he wanted.  After several  months of getting to know one another, of exploring various options, and pulling together essays and applications, he was able not only to get into a great college, but win some scholarship money, too boot!

If I can help you or someone in your family find the best college for them, please send me a shout.


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