So students need to take freshman year as seriously as possible. Depressed freshmen are not powerful transfer candidates, and in fact, when students get more engaged on campus, they end up wanting to stay at their original college. Turning Freshman Blues AroundDecember 19, 2012 in News tagged admissions / applications / college / college freshmen / freshmen / Harvard / Obama / Santa Monica / transfer students / transfers / UCLA / usc by rjoseph
Getting deferred from a college is painful yet full of promise. It is good because the college is still interested in you and has put you into the regular applicant pool. It is good because the college can now see your fall grades and learn more about you. It is bad because the odds of deferred admissions are lower than applying regular, and waiting another four months for a potentially negative answer is agony. So these tips are all prefaced on the assumption that you are submitting other outstanding other applications. You will find a college that suits you and makes you happy!!!! Ten tips for Working from Deferral to AcceptanceDecember 13, 2012 in News tagged Early action. Early decision. High school. College admissions. College applications. College. Harvard. by rjoseph
Happy holidays. December goes by so quickly, so please help kids with their college and scholarship applications. There is still so much we can do to help these amazing kids.Here are ten college access tips to get you through the rest of 2012. December College Readiness Tips for All College Readiness AdvocatesDecember 3, 2012 in News tagged college / College Access / college application essays / college applications / counselors / Get Me To College / Harvard / High School Seniors / personal statement / personal statements / principals / Rebecca Joseph / seniors / UCLA / usc by rjoseph
November is the busiest month of the college application season. Please do what you can to prepare great applications. November College Readiness TipsNovember 18, 2012 in News by rjoseph
Happy Thanksgiving. So many of our students are waiting to hear from early action, decision, or notification colleges, as are students who applied for Posse and Questbridge Scholarships. Sadly, all of them will not get admitted, and they need to have other applications ready to go. If they don't, they will have a horrible holiday vacation, and drag you into it. So please, share these tips to get students working on their other applications now!!! Waiting for Early Application Acceptances?: Prepare Other Applications NOW!!!November 17, 2012 in News tagged applications / college applications / early action / early decision / early notification / getmetocollege / Harvard / High School Seniors / parents / Rebecca Joseph / UCLA / usc by rjoseph
As you are sitting in your English senior class, you start to think about your college life ahead. As you’re making preparations to your new life in college, you start to get nervous about how life in college will be. As a freshman fresh out of high school, there are going to be some few tips and advice you might consider before you start your first day of your new life. So as you are getting ready for applying to and attending at Cal State, you should apply for EOP. APPLY TO EOP: ADVICE FROM ELSIENovember 15, 2012 in News tagged Cal State LA / California State University / college / College Access / EOP / high school / High School Seniors / Rebecca Joseph by rjoseph