|
About HS CounselorWeek - weekly email
This weekly email searches main media outlets finding stories that may be of interest to high school counselors, college admission officers and related organizations, with links to the original stories. It is published by de facto, inc., publishers of other e-newsletters.
Syndication
HS Counselor Week can be added to your school's or PTO's web site for free. It's a great way to keep parents and students up-to-date. Just email us if you're interested. Thanks. - |
College Big Picture
Is College Tuition the Next Bubble? ABC News - Mar 24, 2012 At $1 trillion dollars, student loan debt has eclipsed credit card debt for the first time in American history. To make matters worse, come July 1 the interest rate on federally subsidized Stafford student loans will automatically double....
|
What's More Expensive Than College? Not Going to College The Atlantic - Mar 27, 2012 If you want to feel optimistic about the state of things for unemployed, disengaged, and dissatisfied youths in America, here's a way. Spin a globe. Stop it with your finger. If you touch land, the overwhelming odds are that the young people in that country are doing much worse....
|
Colleges slashing tuition, offering 3-year degrees CNNMoney - Mar 22, 2012 NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- A growing number of colleges are taking extreme measures to attract more students by cutting tuition or speeding up the rate at which they graduate......
|
College Admissions Process/Strategies
Admissions Office looks for signs of senioritis Dailiy Pennsylvanian - Mar 28, 2012 For college applicants, admission to Penn is no excuse to slack off. As high-school seniors across the country are preparing to learn of their Penn admissions decisions at 5 p.m. today, ..
|
College Admissions: The High School Cheating Epidemic Huffington Post - Mar 26, 2012 For many years, I have had one or two students caught in situations of academic dishonesty in high school. However, this year is different because I have seen an unusually high number of students charged with cheating..
|
Worried About College Decisions? Take a Lesson From Sara Huffington Post - Mar 27, 2012 Sara came home from a softball game last spring and was surprised to see her father's car in the driveway. May was a busy month in his line of work, so he usually went back to the office after watching Sara pitch...
|
Decisions
| HSCW Counselors' Corners Post - Mar 29, 2012 Two More Options as Colleges Send Decisions Most of the Ivy League college news will land today, Thursday, at 5 PM. We’ve discussed some of the options students will receive when they open their e-mails or letters, but there are two other trends that deserve a little attention from the Class of 2012:... More
|
On College: What to do after getting back your college offers San Jose Mercury News - Mar 27, 2012 If you are one of the nearly 2 million students who applied to college this year, you have most likely started to get decisions back. Those decisions can include an acceptance, a denial or an offer to place you on the waiting list....
|
6 Questions to Ask When Making a Final College Decision US News & World Report - Mar 27, 2012 As one of the rites of spring, high school seniors everywhere are in the process of making a college decision. As the May 1 deadline draws ever closer, a different approach may be necessary to make the final decision.....
|
Colleges Increasingly Give News of Admissions Electronically Education Week - Mar 27, 2012 Thick envelope or thin one? That's so yesterday. High school seniors are increasingly getting the word from colleges about their acceptance by phone, email, through the school's website—even by text message...
|
Deferred/Waiting/Rejected
Waiting in limbo: the ambiguity of college waitlists SF College Admissions Examiner - Mar 24, 2012 Now and in the coming month, students will be opening envelopes, receiving emails or logging into websites to discover the result of their college applications...
|
Don't Let College Rejections Stand in Your Way Huffington Post - Mar 26, 2012 This is an incredibly emotional time of year as high school seniors receive their college admissions notifications. Most receive great news that they have been accepted to their dream college or to several awesome colleges from which they must choose one to accept. ..
|
Campus Visits/Fairs
Colleges gear up for spring fairs DC College Admissions Examiner - Mar 24, 2012 Once 2012 decisions are signed, sealed, and delivered, admissions staff will hardly have a moment to breathe before they’re expected to hit the road again for college fairs scheduled all over the country ..
|
Parents
College Tour Tips for Parents Huffington Post - Mar 28, 2012 Most parents of college-bound teens quickly learn that some college tours involve more eye-rolling and ridiculous reasoning than family bonding. This isn't unusual...
|
How to Plan a College Tour from Hell Huffington Post - Mar 28, 2012 If you have a high school junior, you're probably ready to hit the road on an iconic bonding trip with your disengaged teen. Here are ten surefire tips to help organize a journey that will turn off your student to higher learning and destroy your relationship forever:..
|
Parents: Help or Hindrance? Inside Higher Ed - Mar 28, 2012 PHOENIX -- Parents are getting a bad rap. So say researchers who studied the relationship between parental involvement and their children's development as college students over a four-year period -- and found that students whose parents were significantly involved in their lives did not have their progress hindered. ...
|
Secrets to paying for college CNNMoney - Mar 27, 2012 (MONEY Magazine) -- You knew it was bad, but now that your child is close or getting ready to go to college, you're starting to get a truer picture of how bad. This year's estimated $22,300 total price (including tuition, room, board, books, and fees) ...
|
SATs & ACTs
College Entrance Exam Security Tightened After Scandal Business Week - Mar 27, 2012 Security at U.S. college entrance examinations will be tightened this fall after widespread cheating was disclosed last year, testing officials and the Nassau County, New York, district attorney’s office said....
|
Paying/Finaid
Financial Aid Bait and Switch? College Solution Blog - Mar 28, 2012 When families look at financial aid packages they often assume that a school’s financial aid support will remain the same for four years. That, however, is a dangerous assumption to make. ...
|
Stern Advice: How to haggle for that college money Chicago Tribune - Mar 28, 2012 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Over the next week, most colleges will give high school seniors the good news -- who got in where -- and the bad news -- how much it will cost. ...
|
College Math 101: Calculating the Real Cost of Attending Wall Street Journal - Mar 25, 2012 The fat envelopes are rolling in for Rhianna Lawson, a high-school senior in Virginia Beach, Va. But her college pick won't come down to which has the greenest quad or best dorm. It'll be about how much her parents have to shell out. ...
|
Scholarships
An easier way to apply for college scholarships CBS News MoneyWatch - Mar 26, 2012 Searching for college scholarships can be a real pain. When using the typical student scholarship search engine, teenagers can end up slogging through an overwhelming number of private scholarships that are totally inappropriate....
|
The 12 Most Unique College Scholarship Winning Tips Grand Rapids Community Colleges Examiner - Mar 24, 2012 12 Scholarship money, aaahhh….those coveted checks that are awarded to ease the pain of college tuition, not to mention books, housing, food, and all the other expenses that come with university living...
|
Career Training
Vocational Training Is No Substitute For High School Slate Magazine - Mar 27, 2012 The number of adult Americans who have earned college degrees has been increasing, but not fast enough to keep up with workforce demands, according to a report released Monday.....
|
| High-Tech Illinois Company Looks to Bridge Workers' 'Skills Gap' PBS News Hour - Mar 27, 2012 WTTW Chicago reports on an Illinois company trying to fill highly skilled, high-tech jobs and why other advanced-manufacturing companies are facing similar problems as parents and students shun manufacturing jobs over perceived stigmas and concerns about the long-term viability of the industry in America.....
|
Who Shouldn’t Go to College? New York Times - Economix Blog - Mar 23, 2012 Rick Santorum’s recent diatribe against higher education, in which he called President Obama a “snob” for wanting “everybody in America to go to college,” has reinvigorated the seemingly endless debate over whether college is worthwhile....
|
Vocational Education Is Vital to America's Future The News & Advance - Mar 18, 2012 The news Thursday that Central Virginia Community College, B&W and the Old Dominion Job Corps Center would be continuing their training partnership drives home a message we should all hear loud and clear:...
|
Facebook
Northeast
College completion in Vermont Burlington Free Press - Mar 27, 2012 The “big goal” for college completion, as promoted by the Lumina Foundation, is for 60 percent of the U.S. adult population to have a two- or four-year degree. Where’s the country now? The 2010 Census put the figure at 38.3 percent......
|
URI president says college loans rising because state aid is falling Providence Journal Press - Mar 26, 2012 SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- Public discussion about the rising sticker price of a college education is often misguided, not taking into account that there's a "dollar for dollar" correlation between decreased public support and bigger studen...
|
New England embracing new standards Maine Today - Mar 27, 2012 Maine is forging ahead of most states in adopting proficiency-based education. But it is not alone. All of the New England states except Massachusetts have formed the New England Secondary Schools Consortium, which promotes the education reform......
|
Teen Driving
Electronics top distractions for teen drivers CBS News - Mar 27, 2012 CBS News) A new study of teen driving behavior has found that the use of electronic devices is the leader among distracted driving behaviors, and that teenage girls are twice as likely as boys to use cell phones or other electronic devices while driving......
|
Better communication could foster safe teen driving WAFF - Mar 27, 2012 HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - According to The Alabama Department of Public Health, car accidents are the number one cause of deaths for people ages 16 to 24. Parents and companies are taking this statistic seriously.......
|
|
|
|
|
Big Pic
Proces/Strat
Decide
Reject
Visits
Parents
SATs & ACTs
FinAid
Scholar
Career
Facebook
Northeast
Driving
|
To view pages in PDF format, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Click the icon for a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader:
(Acrobat and the Acrobat logo are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated)
About This E-Mail
You received this newsletter because you registered your name and email address requesting HSCounselorWeek, or because you are a member of a cooperating organization.
To unsubscribe,
change delivery options or your e-mail address, see
http://www.HSCounselorWeek.com.
Suggestions and feedback are welcome at
suggestions@hscounselorweek.com.
How to Advertise
For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other advertising
opportunities with HS CounselorWeek, contact sales@hscounselorweek.com or
visit our sponsoring page.
Disclaimer
Send all correspondences to de facto, inc.
PO Box 602 Bedford MA 01730 . Neither the US Government nor any agency,
nor de facto, inc, nor any of the contractors,
subcontractors, advertisers, or employees makes any warranty, expressed or implied including
any warranty of completeness, or merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose,
nor assumes any legal liability or responsibility for any party's use or the result of
such contents of the newsletter. In no event will de facto's liability, if any, exceed the value of the weekly charge for the information
provided giving rise to such liability.
|
|