While college enrollment is up, college completion is not. Roughly 40% of all students pursuing a bachelor’s degree don’t graduate and affordability is the number one reason students don’t complete their degree, leaving them saddled with debt and without the increased capacity to pay it back. To address this alarming trend, uAspire, a national nonprofit working Read More
Have you seen the two new essay prompts on the Common Application? Every few years, the Common App, a tool used by more than 700 colleges to help students apply seamlessly to multiple schools, updates its essay prompts. The changes are based on feedback from students, parents, high school counselors, educational consultants and member schools Read More
Undergraduates taking out a new U.S. government loan will face nearly a 20 percent increase in interest charges. The U.S. government is raising prices for new student debt, adding hundreds of dollars to the cost of the typical federal college loan. Beginning in July, interest rates on new government loans are set to rise by 0.69 percentage point, according Read More
What are college admission officers looking for as they review your students application? The admissions process varies and can be subjective to some degree, but here are 10 things that could help your student stand out and score acceptance letters from his or her favorite schools. 1. A challenging high school curriculum A transcript that Read More
College Admissions is the closest thing modern America has to a rite of passage, but far from being the meritocracy we would like to believe, the selective college admissions process looks more like a beauty contest. Aspiring high school students have to figure out how they have to act and what they have to look Read More
When my high school counselor informed me that I might not be cut out for a four-year college or university, I was not only crushed but also confused. I grew up in a household with two college educated parents, and in what I look back now on as a very “college-going” culture, so why didn’t my Read More
Martha Bowman, who is a School Counselor, put together an impressive list of tools that students can use to determine which careers might be of most interest to them. Most of these are free, but note there is a cost associated with a few of these resources. Here is her list: The Work Interest Quiz Read More
NACAC’s annual College Openings Update: Options for Qualified Students (formerly the Space Availability Survey) is a voluntary listing of NACAC member postsecondary institutions that are still accepting applications from prospective freshman and/or transfer students for the upcoming fall term. Now in its 30th year, the College Openings Update is designed as a tool for counselors, parents and others assisting students who Read More
Some students have their hearts set on a specific out-of-state college and don’t want to go anywhere else. This actually happened to me when my son visited and was accepted to several great Texas schools but had his heart set on an out-of-state school, Louisiana State University. Luckily we were able to offset the higher Read More
Are your students going to be taking the SAT soon? Are your students worried about vocabulary on the SAT writing test? Many students think big words will lead to a big score, but that isn’t true. Using words that make a student uncomfortable can lead to miscommunication. If your child wants to impress SAT readers, Read More
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