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...fast walker and a big talker (if Caveman can be considered a language), this one is more excitable than your average toy. Just beware its kung fu fury--and audible bodily functions. wowwee.com...
...Harvard, Kung began assembling a team to continue these seminars across the country in an effort to help primarily underprivileged students for whom information about colleges is scarce—but essential in getting them to any form of higher education...
...result, in the summer of ’99, Kung started “College Matters,” an education non-profit run by students and directed towards spreading information on the nuts and bolts of getting into top schools across the country. She began by conducting a seminar on college admissions in her hometown, and quickly packed her city hall with eager soon-to-be high school graduates and parents...
...other members of the class of 2005, Kiran Gupta and Manik V. Suri, co-authored the chapter on the college essay after gaining interest in helping underprivileged kids while tutoring minority students with the “Let’s Get Ready” organization. Kung, now at Harvard Business School, wrote about the importance of high school activities. Their end result, what Suri describes as a “step-by-step manual of how you go about the process of applying to college,” is now published through McGraw-Hill publishing company and in bookstores...
...Kung looks to the strength in the “by the student for the student” aspect of the book. “So many of those books are written by admissions officers. These are students the reader can relate to,” Kung says. One separation is that The College Matters Guide is completely non-profit, donating 100 percent of its earnings to a scholarship fund to assist those who they help get into college actually be able to attend...