College Admissions Advice: To Do List for Sophomores and Parents (January 2012 – June 2012) IN GENERAL 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. Make sure you choose [...]
This week, the home page of www.admissionpossible.com is about How to Write a Good College Application Essay. I also offer the “Top 5 Tips for a Successful 2010 College Admissions Experience” (located in the Deadlines and Tips box). This morning I was on Fox 5 News talking about those 5 tips. If you are interested, [...]
adMISSION POSSIBLE September-December To Do List SEPTEMBER Calendar • Taking into consideration your schoolwork, sports and activities, block out time each week from now until December to work on applications • Note application due dates on your calendar so that you can work out a schedule to complete them on time Applications • Gather applications [...]
September 8, 2010 The job of a college admissions officer is not easy. Case in point: Their stacks of applications are much larger than the number of students they can invite to attend their school—and somehow, they must determine who those select few students will be. Once they get past academic qualifications, such as GPA [...]
August 22, 2010 Many students already have questions about The Common Application. Here are some answers to many of those questions. Here is the link to that application: https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Default.aspx IMPORTANT! Students using the Common App must “Save” information as they type it in. If not, the system will log out after time (about an hour) [...]
July 30, 2010 Every year approximately 2 ½ million students apply to college. In some instances, students apply only to local state colleges and universities. However, more and more apply to a wide array of colleges, public and private, as well as close and far away from home. The process is demanding, complex, and stressful. [...]
May 30, 2010 When I start working with students in the college admissions process, at the very first meeting I ask parents to identify a series of nouns, adjectives, adjective phrases, or even little stories (just positive ones please!) that will help me know who their son or daughter is. Very purposely, I don’t ask [...]
April 27, 2010 Students applying to four-year colleges and universities have a number of challenges to face. First is figuring out which colleges you want to apply to; second is completing the application forms themselves (including usually writing a number of essays); and third is gathering letters of recommendation from their counselor, teachers and others. [...]
April 26, 2010 In this article, I discuss the two families of standardized tests: the PSAT/SAT offered by College Board and the PLAN/ACT offered by American College Testing. While an increasing number of colleges and universities are moving away from required testing (more than 800 according to FairTest, The National Center for Fair and Open [...]
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. [...]