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After 10 years of teaching college essay writing, I was familiar with this reply. For some reason, when you’re asked to recount an important experience from your life, it is common to forget everything that has ever happened to you. “That all seems kind of cliché.”Applying to college has always been about standing out. Still, many of my students (and their parents) worry that as getting into college becomes increasingly competitive, this won’t be enough to set them apart. On Thursday, in a tradition known as “Ivy Day,” all eight Ivy League schools released their regular admission decisions.
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TORONTO (AP) — Author Sarah Bernstein won the Scotiabank Giller Prize on Monday for her novel “Study for Obedience.”The Montreal-born, Scotland-based author accepted the $100,000 award remotely from Scotland, where she had a baby just 10 days ago. Her novel is about a young woman moving to the remote north where after her arrival, a series of inexplicable events occur. The 100,000 Canadian dollar ($72,000 U.S.) Giller prize honors the best in Canadian fiction. Political Cartoons View All 1244 ImagesThe celebrations were also interrupted early in the broadcast when several anti-Israel protesters jumped onstage. The Giller was created in 1994 by late businessman Jack Rabinovitch in memory of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller.
Persons: Sarah Bernstein, Giller, Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler, Alice Munro, Jack Rabinovitch, Doris Giller Organizations: TORONTO, Scotiabank, Israel Locations: Montreal, Scotland, Israel
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