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How To Increase The Perceived Rigor On Your Transcript For Ivies
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How To Increase The Perceived Rigor On Your Transcript For Ivies

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Brendan Cahill
Feb 29, 2024
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“Rigor” is the buzzword college coaches at Ivies use to describe what they’d like to see in a recruit’s transcript. It’s also the same word that anyone who's ever been in education has heard 1,000 times and wants to gag when they hear it.

What does rigor mean exactly?

It just means how hard the classes are that you are ta…

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