List of All Average State SAT Scores Here are the most recent average SAT scores for all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. Find your area below and see how your SAT score compares with your region’s average! State Participation Rate EBRW Math Total Alabama Read More
The Spring 2020 issue of LINK for Counselors will be published in February 2022. We have some great articles lined up for you. Here is a quick summary: How To Create a College Counseling Program at Your School – By Nina Berler – Founder of unCommon Apps ELL and College – The need for Counselors Read More
When many adults hear the word trauma, their minds can go to the most extreme situations—fleeing persecution in a dangerous country or being trafficked across borders. While those situations can undoubtedly be harrowing, trauma takes many forms and is actually much more common than many people think. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Read More
The FAFSA can be very intimidating for families. Nitro College has put out a very thorough 2022-2023 Step-by-Step Guide to help families complete the FAFSA. They break down each section into several easy steps to complete it. Here are direct links with help for each specific question: Step 1: Student Information Questions #1-10: Name, Address, Read More
NACAC has combined the Guiding the Way to Higher Education: Step-by-Step to College Workshops for Students curricula with resources from the Families, Counselors and Communities Together (FCCT) manual to create the Step by Step: College Awareness and Planning for Families, Counselors and Communities. Revised in 2017, the curricula—presented in four sections, for elementary school students Read More
The Texas Education Agency has published a list of questions by grade that students should ask their Counselor. These might be thought provoking for your students and prod them to ask questions of you that they should be asking: For students finishing 9th grade: • I need to learn more about college and career options. Read More
Applying to college is never a one-and-done deal. As we’ve observed in previous articles, applying to college extends beyond the application itself, encompassing other activities like essays, test scores, and recommendations, all of which take time to complete or “collect” – in addition to the hours spent researching where you’d like to apply first! If Read More
A new scholarship was recently announced that your students that are considering attending Medical School in the future (high school students are eligible to apply). Any future doctors out there? The name of the scholarship is “Dr Eugene Kramer Scholarship for Future Doctors of America”. This scholarship is available for students in the United States Read More
Have you ever had a student turn in an essay draft with a few words that seem way too big? Are the words different from the words they’ve used in meetings, in writing exercises, or on a quick chat on the phone? I think we all know the culprit: the thesaurus! Time and again, we Read More
There is a lot being written in the press about “Free College” for students. What does it mean? What programs are possibly going to be implemented? Which schools are on board with this effort? We will have a great focused article on this subject in the Spring 2022 issue of LINK for Counselors so stay Read More
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