Here is some great information that you can share with your high school juniors that are planning to attend College: In addition to planning for junior prom and learning to parallel park, high school juniors should be doing these things right now: 1. Visit your counselor and review your senior year courses. If your senior Read More
More than 450 College’s & Universities still have openings and are actively pursuing students for the Fall 2018 semester according to NACAC’s annual College Openings Update: Options for Qualified Students, 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. The College Openings Read More
Last year, Kelly Jordan, vice president for student affairs at Holy Cross College in South Bend, Ind., accidentally sent an email to the entire student body declaring that the small Catholic college was on the brink of financial ruin. “It may be that I will spend the better part of the coming year closing down Read More
Every writer feels nervous in the moments when they are revising, starting over or drafting a new piece of prose. So it’s not surprising when even students who are well-prepared, understand the college essay prompt, and have a great story to tell also get the first-draft jitters, or writing anxiety. In a few months, Read More
The New York Times recently published examples of 4 great college essays that stood out from students in different parts of the country. Writing the college essay is very difficult for many students. These examples may give your students some ideas on how they should approach writing their own: Jonathan Ababiy – Blaine, MN ‘The Read More
Are any of your seniors looking to work this summer before they begin college? With the cost of college being so high and many students needing additional dollars for incidental costs working should be a necessity for many of them. ULoop offers a tool that lists jobs specifically available to college students. Currently there are Read More
We have written before about cases where teenagers posted inappropriate items on their social media and it came back to haunt them years later. We had another incident where this happened last week. Josh Allen, who was one of the top quarterbacks in last weeks NFL draft had some Twitter postings resurrected that he had Read More
Recall for a moment, if you will, a trope of the cheesy romantic comedy. Have I…uh…seen you here before? Replace the sheepish questioner with this spring’s ACT test takers and swap the eye-rolling recipient with the April ACT, and you’ve got yourself a standardized test prep smash hit. By the way, the answer is “yes.” Read More
Soon nearly 3 million high school students at 22,000 high schools will be sitting down to take their Advanced Placement exams. Created by the nonprofit College Board in the 1950s, AP is to other high school courses what Whole Foods is to other supermarkets: a mark of the aspirational, a promise of higher standards and, Read More
It’s spring, a good time to debunk some of the rumors about the college essay that spread like wildfire among the college-bound crowd and their families. With that in mind, here are our Top 5 college essay myths and facts: Myth 1: A college essay has to be written about an impressive topic. Fact: The student is Read More
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