The Mindful College Applicant: Cultivating Emotional Intelligence For The Admissions Process

Description

This work offers a method for minimizing and managing the untenable stress of the competitive college admissions process in the US. Given the current reality of the process, it introduces us to a more mindful approach to college admissions one that is grounded in emotional intelligence and emphasizes resilience, wellbeing, and compassion.

About the Author

Belinda Chiu has 20 years of experience in university admissions; leadership development and training; career and executive coaching; and consulting. She is Senior Associate Director of Admissions at Dartmouth College and a Mindful Leadership Coach. She has authored articles on wellbeing for Success and SheKnows, journal articles on environmental education, as well as The One-Hundred-Year History of the Phelps-Stokes Fund as a Family Philanthropy, We Are One: yoga meditations for children and The Ladies’ Practical Guide to the Camino de Santiago: Walk Your Way. Chiu has worked in competitive and Ivy League college admissions over the course of 18 years, including Dartmouth College, Barnard College, the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She is a sought-out evaluator for prestigious scholarships with organizations such as: the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, Management Leadership for Tomorrow, and the Goldman Sachs Foundation Youth Prizes. Belinda is also an experienced workshop presenter known for delivering a mindful approach to the admissions process, and has presented with colleagues around the world, from Puerto Rico to India. Belinda has presented to her colleagues on the topic of mindfulness in admissions, including leading a panel at the 2017 Ivy+ conference, a gathering of admissions officers from the Ivy League, MIT, and Stanford. Belinda is also a leadership coach and trainer for Fortune 500 companies, such as GlaxoSmithKline and Maersk Lines, a Meta-Coach for Daniel Goleman’s new Coaching for Emotional and Social Intelligence, and a teacher-in-training for the Google-born Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute.