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Big Picture
At Small Colleges, Harsh Lessons About Cash Flow
New York Times - Apr 30, 2016
RINDGE, N.H. — Amber Jackson remembers the moment she learned that both her majors — dance and math — had been cut from the program at Franklin Pierce University. She immediately called her mother, whose reaction was: “They can do that?”...
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College Admissions Process/Strategies
7 tips for starting your college search
Bangor Daily News - Apr 28, 2016
Spring is here. For many families, visits to colleges are underway. With about 5,000 degree-granting institutions in the U.S., where do you start? Here are seven tips that can ultimately save time, money, and increase the likelihood of a better fit between school and student. ...
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No luck—what to do when the admissions well runs dry
DC College Admissions Examiner - May 3, 2016
It’s not an outcome anyone really wants to consider. But every so often, a college applicant reaches the bottom of the admissions well with nothing positive to report. ...
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How to Approach College Admissions Essay
Huffington Post - Apr 29, 2016
The college admissions process is getting more and more competitive each year. In order to apply to US colleges, students usually submit an application through the Common Application or a stand-alone system that some schools...
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Where to find what you need on college websites
Seattle College Bound Examiner - May 3, 2016
Navigating college websites can be challenging – and frustrating – especially when you’re not familiar with the terms used on those websites. To make it a bit easier, below you will find the places on a college website...
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Use College Goals to Choose High School Senior Year Courses
US News - May 2, 2016
The early years of high school, when students are focused on basic requirements and prerequisites for advanced classes, can offer very little course flexibility. Options, if any, may be limited to one precious elective....
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Ten Tips for a Successful College Search (Part 1, Tips 1-5)
US News - May 2, 2016
Your successful college search is built piece by piece over your entire time in high school. The classes you take, the grades you earn, and what you do with your hours outside the classroom will all be considered by admission officers looking to build communities that fit their own campus cultures....
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Students with Disabilties
Gap Year
Malia Obama’s ‘Gap Year’ Is Part of a Growing (and Expensive) Trend
New York Times - May 3, 2016
It sounds awfully nice: A yearlong postponement of schoolwork. The White House announced on Sunday that Malia Obama, the president’s older daughter, would be among the thousands of students to take a so-called gap year between high school and college....
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Let’s Stop Calling it a “Gap Year”
Huffington Post - May 3, 2016
With the recent news that Malia Obama will be taking a “gap year” before she starts her time as an undergraduate at Harvard University, the term is all over the news again....
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Wait Listed
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What To Do When You're Stuck On A College Waitlist
NPR.org - Apr 29, 2016
A college enrollment official and a former college admissions officer offer advice for the tens of thousands of students who won't find out until later in the summer if they've even been accepted.....
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Counselors
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Post - May 5, 2016
Should you fall into a Gap Year?
It’s been around for years—decades even—but now that Malia Obama has decided to take a year off before going to college, everyone wants to know about gap years, and if everyone should take one. Let’s review the basics.... More
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Positive Impact of School Counselors on Our Students
Huffington Post - Apr 26, 2016
Our school district sent out a survey recently about school counselors. It asked questions about parents’ and students’ experiences with their school counselors in an effort to improve their services and systems...
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Parents
My Son Was Accepted to a College He Can’t Afford. Now What?
TIME - May 3, 2016
When I reached out to Facebook friends for advice, the reaction was immediate and intense— and the reason I am writing this essay. In early April, my son Dan arrived home from the University of Wisconsin’s Admitted Students Day holding a Wisconsin windshield sticker....
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Use College Goals to Choose High School Senior Year Courses
US News - May 2, 2016
The early years of high school, when students are focused on basic requirements and prerequisites for advanced classes, can offer very little course flexibility. Options, if any, may be limited to one precious elective....
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SAT & ACTs
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Podcasts Reuters Investigates: Gaming the SAT
Reuters - Apr 27, 2016
As the first international sitting of the redesigned SAT approaches, the new Reuters Investigates podcast explores why the College Board’s efforts to curb cheating on the standardized test remain in questio...
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Everything you ever wanted to know about SAT Subject Tests
Charlotte Observer - May 1, 2016
Here’s everything you’ll ever need to know about SAT Subject Tests: SAT Subject Tests provide an opportunity for students to demonstrate their knowledge of a specific subject and they help colleges understand different strengths a student ...
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FinAid/Scholarships
When and how to appeal a financial aid award
The Christian Science Monitor - May 1, 2016
The process varies from school to school, and there’s no guarantee that your appeal will be approved, but there are steps you can take to improve your chances of increasing your college financial aid....
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Declare Yourself Independent for College Financial Aid
US News - May 2, 2016
Caitlin Cheney, 22, a junior at Washington State University, knew that paying for college was going to be a stretch when she couldn't afford the cost of a cap and gown at her high school graduation.....
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12 Key Terms to Know About College Financial Aid
Huffington Post - Apr 28, 2016
Time to study up! Whether your student is college-bound in the fall or still in the early years of their high school career, understanding the college financial aid world is probably an important part of your—and their—education....
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Career and Technical Education
The high school to college track — is it for everyone?
Miami Herald - May 2, 2016
Preparing high school youth for success in the world today requires a vastly different educational experience than a generation ago
Choosing vocation over college should be a decision made with the same resources and in the same regard as choosing college...
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Higher focus on career, vocational skills
Education Dive - Apr 28, 2016
The Associated Press reports the number of high school graduates enrolling in a four-year college directly after high school rose from 40% in 1990 to 42% in 2013. Career and Technical Education (CTE) is being revitalized.....
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South
State graduation rate increases from 2011-2015
Picayune Item - Apr 30, 2016
“Those efforts, as well as the Mississippi Department of Education providing more technical assistance to districts and school counselors to help students ......
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Some Texas high school students are losing college credits
Washington Times - May 2, 2016
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Taking college courses while in high school has its perks: Students are introduced to rigorous course work early, have less debt, are more likely to stay in college and tend to graduate early.....
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Bullying
Combination of face-to-face and online bullying may pack a powerful punch
Science Daily - Apr 30, 2016
Bullying and taunts that may have once stayed in the schoolyard increasingly spill over into text messages and social media. A new study shows that the combined effect of both face-to-face and cyber-bullying may have a powerful effect on adolescents, more than doubling the odds ...
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Process
Disablity
Gap Year
Wait List
Counsel
Parents
SATs & ACTs
FinAid
CTEd
South
Bully
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