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	<title>Marilee JonesMarilee Jones - Bringing Wisdom, Clarity, and Sanity to College Admissions</title>
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		<title>The Problem With Branding Kids:  They&#8217;re Growing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marilee Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s an interesting take on being true to yourself as a college applicant by Mike Chapman, as seen through the Tebow lens.  Tim Tebow, that is. Though football is finally done for the season, and Eli Manning stole the show at the Super Bowl, Tebow was really the “It Guy” of the season.  He was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vassar, WTF? Another Postcard From the Land of Unaccountability in College Admissions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marilee Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a story of how adults act when busted, when accountability becomes a principle in name only. I train senior admissions officers to become Deans and Directors.  I was trained by the people who were trained by the father of all private college admissions, B. Alden Thresher, known as BAT Thresher.  Being an avid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Create Peace At Home During the College Application Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marilee Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, we’re now full-blown in the holiday season again (didn’t we just do this a few months ago?) and if you are the parent of a high schooler applying to college, you probably aren’t singing songs of joy and peace right about now.  Chances are, your child is having the usual teenage mood swings and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tapping Script To Lower Anxiety</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marilee Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tapping is the perfect first aid for both the parents of students applying to college and for the applicants themselves when the anxiety of the college application process gets overwhelming. Check out this basic tapping video by the wonderful Jessica Ortner to learn this simple technique. And yes, it is this simple.  ;-) It&#8217;s best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Want Everyone To Learn Tapping</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marilee Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I’ve been pitching tapping (EFT) in a few of my blogs, I figured I’d take the opportunity to tell you what I’m talking about and why I want everyone to learn the technique. Tapping is a quick and effective way to relieve any kind of pain, whether it is physical, emotional, mental or spiritual. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rejection is God’s Protection:  How to Support Your Child Through Early Action or Early Decision Disappointment or Rejection Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marilee Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While it is not an outright rejection, a deferral is still a big let down. What if your child’s early application decision is a deferral? A deferral is the most common decision from an Early program since there are many applications and few spots available. Depending on the college, anywhere from 5%- 20% of the defers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rejection is God’s Protection: How to Support Your Child Through Early Action or Early Decision Disappointment &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marilee Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Your Child is an Early Applicant, Your Heart is Probably in Your Throat About Now  &#8220;Rejection is God&#8217;s Protection.&#8221;  I wish I could tell you that I thought that one up myself, but I actually heard it from Jeff Goldblum’s character on a Law and Order episode last year. It has a ring of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boys Developing Horsepower</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I travel in a professional world filled with adults who love kids and who believe in their futures.  This love is expressed through many different venues.   But the most heroic and rubber-on-the-road adults in this category are those who work at treatment facilities for teenagers with substance abuse issues.  These people dedicate their lives to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little Dog, Big Purpose &#8212; The Power of Reframing Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was walking out of my hotel in Leavenworth, a crazy little town in the mountains of eastern Washington State designed to look like Bavaria, when I met the most remarkable characters. A lovely woman carried a small pocket dog inside her coat, heading for a comfort break. I couldn’t resist. Her dog was so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creation is in the improvisation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I had the pleasure of attending the wedding of a beloved friend, a young man from China who is in the US in search of his American Dream. I’ve never been to a Chinese wedding before. I’m not sure how traditional this one was, since Peter and his beautiful wife Sharon are Christians now. [...]]]></description>
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