WRITING AN ADMISSIONS ESSAY for graduate school led a student last year to start a conversation with me about the best approach to such a task. She brought along her DARS (Degree Audit Reporting System) report. As I listened to her situation and read her DARS, I noticed that she had taken a variety of interesting courses to fulfill her core curriculum requirements. When I asked her
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