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March 31, 2010 High School Students! So What Are You Doing This Summer? When you were in grammar school and junior high, on the first day of school, what did teachers ask you the moment you walked into their classrooms? Remember? “What did you do this summer?” Most of the time, your answers were probably [...]
March 31, 2010 It’s April or May and you’re a junior in high school. While it’s easy to be thinking ahead to summer and all the fun you’re going to have, you also need to be thinking about which admissions tests to take before the end of the school year. Here is a list: What [...]
Appealing a college admissions denial is very tricky. Most students don’t appeal for one very simple reason: the chances of getting a denial reversed are very, very slim. However, nothing ventured, nothing gained, particularly if you have legitimate reasons for your appeal. There are legitimate reasons (things that can be documented and/or information that wasn’t [...]
You’ve gone through the process of selecting and applying to colleges and then you receive a letter from a college that says you are waitlisted. What does this mean? What do you do? This message puts you into a kind of limbo: you’ve not been accepted, denied or deferred by a given college. At least [...]
Congratulations! You’ve been accepted to three colleges! Now you have to make a decision. How do you decide on one college when all of the choices are good ones? Well, there are a series of things you can do. First, identify what it is that you really want to in a college: size, location, makeup [...]
Once upon a time (aka, just a few years ago), the word was out that the heft of an envelope from a college admissions office was a big hint as to what their admission decision was for you. The bigger the envelope, the better the decision! While a few colleges still send out decisions by [...]
March 23, 2010 Good news for future college applicants! 25 more colleges have just joined The Common Application group. Among the colleges that will now accept The Common App are Columbia University in New York, DePaul University in Illinois, Otterbein College in Ohio, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois, the St. [...]
March, 2010 To: adMISSION POSSIBLE Seniors As acceptances start coming in, talk with your parents about making a few college visits to the schools that really interest you. Many colleges offer Pre-Admit events in which admitted students are invited to spend a couple of days touring the campus, living in a dorm, participating in special [...]
To: adMISSION POSSIBLE Freshmen and Sophomores Begin thinking about what you want to do this coming summer. Colleges are just about as interested in what you do outside of school and with your summers as they are in your academics. March is the perfect time to research and begin applying to summer programs. Look for [...]