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Recent release “Dancing through the Chaos” from Covenant Books author Alyssa Brugger is a heartfelt and compelling memoir that recounts the challenges...
SEAN BARRON BOARDMAN — If you move to the Mahoning Valley from your home halfway around the world at a young age, how do you deal with the normal stress and anxiety of having to make numerous cultural and lifestyle assimilations and adjustments? If you’re anything like Aroonrassamee Wongkeaitaroon, you write and submit a first-person detailed account chronicling your struggles, then make readers feel they are part of the journey. Further helping you land on your feet is if your writing project wins a major essay contest — something for which the 15-year-old Boardman High School junio...
The college admissions process is not only stressful, time-consuming and bureaucratic but also extremely competitive, especially for international applicants. It is also an undisputed fact that undergraduate admissions are far more competitive than graduate admissions for international applicants, especially in terms of funding and placements. In 2019, Harvard accepted just 1,950 undergraduate students out of the 43,330 who applied. This was an all-time low acceptance rate of 4.5 percent. Of the 4.5 percent who were accepted, only 11.8 percent were from the international pool of applicants. M...