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After a College Visit, a Student Finally Knows What She Wants

By SUSH KRISHNAMOORTHY
Sush Krishnamoorthy, a student in New Delhi who is applying to universities in the United States, learned about more than genetics during a candidate weekend at N.Y.U. Abu Dhabi.

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What I Wish My Financial Aid Applications Revealed

By SUSH KRISHNAMOORTHY
Sush Krishnamoorthy, a student in New Delhi who is applying to universities in the United States, wants to assure her prospective colleges that she is “a worthy investment who will give them manifold returns.”

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Preoccupying My Mind With Summer Plans as Colleges Decide My Fate

By SUSH KRISHNAMOORTHY
Sush Krishnamoorthy, a student in New Delhi who is applying to universities in the United States, is avoiding the anxiety of college decisions by making plans for summer.

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A Survivor of College Rejection Refuses to Lose Her Resolve

By SUSH KRISHNAMOORTHY
Sush Krishnamoorthy, a student in New Delhi who is applying to universities in the United States, is looking forward to an exciting life, “regardless of where I go to college.”

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If College Admissions Were Like Tetris, Everything Would Fall in Line

By SUSH KRISHNAMOORTHY
Sush Krishnamoorthy, a student in New Delhi who is applying to universities in the United States, is bracing herself for rejection.

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The Trouble With ‘Offbeat’ Essays Isn’t the Style, but the Fit

By SUSH KRISHNAMOORTHY
Sush Krishnamoorthy, a student at Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, in New Delhi, has eschewed writing about something “fancier” in her college essays for writing about her “ordinary” life.

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From India, Hoping to Find a U.S. College That ‘Feels Right’

By SUSH KRISHNAMOORTHY
Sush Krishnamoorthy, a student at Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, in New Delhi, writes that college Web sites do not help because “all of them claim to have the best of everything.”
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Searching U.S. Colleges, Doubt Creeps In Amid the Confidence

By SUSH KRISHNAMOORTHY
Sush Krishnamoorthy, a student at Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, in New Delhi, is one of eight high school seniors around the world blogging about their college searches for The Choice.


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