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 2014.
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I have spent the past couple of months helping seniors conceptualize and edit their two personal statements for the University of California. In the large majority of them, I have witnessed many of the same misconceptions about the prompts, leadings students to disappear within their drafts. These tips will help […]
Show Up In Your Essays: Ten Tips for Completing Freshman ...
Welcome to the end of the school year. You deserve a great summer, yet we need to do so much to help our students get ready for college. Let us know if you need help brainstorming summer bootcamps or other college readiness ideas or plans.
June 2014 College Readiness Tips For Counselors and Other College ...
Congratulations for making it this far in the college admissions process. You will most likely have many good colleges options already or on the way, but if you really want to go to a college that waitlisted you, follow as many of these 10 tips as possible. Do not do this for a school you will not attend if you get off the waitlist. Colleges often take kids off waitlists who can afford to pay outright, have special connections, fulfill regional needs, or make a spectacular case. Remember, spots only open if the college has available spaces, and colleges are keeping longer waitlists than ever.
Don’t Wait to Get Off a College Waitlist
This is prime time for helping high school juniors pick their pivotal senior year schedules. Below are several tips to help guide you and your students through this key process as the rigor of a student’s high school experience is a core factor in the college admission’s process. Please remember that colleges are looking for academically committed and passionate students and that senior years should be the peak of their high school experience not a plateau or downhill slope. Our tips include how to help students select their schedules as well as other tips for making their academic experiences powerful throughout their senior years of high school.
Planning Powerful Senior Year Schedules
This is a busy time of year for juniors. Please help them get ready for college.