Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Elizabeth Dankoski, aired from October 4th on.
Get Into the Schools of Your Dreams
Forget about perfection, find out what you love and create a unique project so you get into the school—and LIFE—of your dreams
Students face huge hurdles when it comes to getting into the college of their dreams. Top universities accept a small fraction of students who apply each year. As a result, many highly qualified students have turned away, and those who are accepted often face uncertain job prospects upon graduation, despite the astronomical costs of obtaining a college degree.
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Elizabeth Dankoski created The Dream School Project to help young people stand out and overcome the high-stress stakes of college admissions so they can increase their chances of acceptance at their top choice schools — and to empower them to build the life of their dreams. Her program is based on her 15 years of experience as an “educational catalyst” helping hundreds of students get into their top-choice schools.
Elizabeth discovered the reason some were accepted to the school were put on waiting lists and ended up settling for institutions that were not their first choice. The students who did get into their school of choice were those who had created unique projects, often reaching out to solve a problem or improve life in their communities. Elizabeth’s students include:
* A student working to go the Olympics as a referee for fencing
* A girl planning a 5K run to benefit epilepsy research in honour of her sister who is battling the disorder.
* An eighth-grader who loves hockey and conducting research, petitioning his town and raising money to build an ice-skating rink
* A boy whose family immigrated from India who is creating a website to raise awareness and funding for an orphanage there
* A student who wants to be a K-Pop star challenging herself to take her singing and dancing to the next level
“When our kids show what they care about most when they use their passion when they follow the path that lights them up — colleges will come running,” she says. “That’s what leadership really is: lighting other people up and illuminating the world with your unique gifts.”
Grant Pollard was 4 years older than me and my first love.
Grant and I ran a Mobile Discotheque for over 2 years, playing at some of the best parties in Cape Town. Weddings, events, birthdays, and fundraisers, we were there. We had to haul speakers that were 4ft tall and heavy, a double turntable, and boxes of records, after a long night of playing and dancing as I was also the GO GO dancer, it was a tiring job, but I loved it.
very cruel too, I moved away to only find him there, he did not want me, but still wanted to control me. Our relationship had fallen apart and had for some time a bitter taste in the mouth.
and girls. The mission of the organisation is to empower women and girls through education to eradicate gender based violence with emphasis on female genital cutting (FGC). She is a graduate of the School of Journalism at Columbia University. After a celebrated career as a Television Broadcast Journalist in Liberia, and Special Press Secretary to the country’s first woman Minister of Agriculture, Angela immigrated to the United States, following the bloody and brutal coup d’etat in her native Liberia.
Simply living in the world as it is moment to moment changes a life of suffering, incompleteness, and striving for something else to a world of peace, unconditional love and bliss. That’s probably it in a nutshell. 🙂
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