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Big Picture
Why college admissions officers overlook low-income students
MarketWatch - Apr 17, 2017
It's April, which means a sliver of high school seniors across the country are celebrating acceptance letters from the nation's top schools, while most applicants to those colleges are licking their wounds over rejections. And it's likely an even smaller sliver of low-income college applicants netted one of those coveted spots....
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Should Kindness Be Part Of College Admissions?
WBUR.org - Apr 15, 2017
It's college admissions season, and anxious high school students are increasingly searching for any edge that will help them stand out to admissions officers. Rory Gilmore made the point in Gilmore Girls, ...
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College Admissions Process/Strategies
Could Your College Acceptance Really Be Rescinded?
Her Campus - Apr 19, 2017
You've worked super hard and your stress levels has gone off the charts. Then finally, it arrives. Your admission letter is finally here. And you been… ACCEPTED!!! Congrats pre-collegiette! You may think your work is done, your future is secured and it's time to finally kick back and relax (hello, Netflix!), ...
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The Common App introduces new features for 2017-18
Admissions Intel - Apr 15, 2017
While far and away the most popular and frequently-used online college application platform, serving more than three million students, parents, counselors and teachers, the Common App recently announce a series of “enhancements” that appear to directly respond to features introduced this year by the Coalition Application...
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How a Mentor Can Help You Get Into College
TeenLife Blog - Apr 13, 2017
The concept of mentoring is nothing new. A one-on-one relationship with someone who is a teacher, tutor and coach is an idea that has been key to intellectual development for thousands of years....
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Deciding/Waiting/Rejected
National Universities Where Wait-Listed Applicants Get In
US News - Apr 18, 2017
For some applicants, being placed on a college waitlist is discouraging. For others, it might provide some hope that they will still be admitted.When an applicant is wait-listed, there's still a chance of getting in, depending on whether space becomes available in the incoming class....
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College Decision Involves Head, Heart & Wallet
Forbes - Apr 16, 2017
Between now and May Day, high school seniors will make college enrollment decisions. As we host unprecedented numbers of visitors where I work at Drew University, I have had numerous conversations with teenagers and the adults who support them. .....
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Decisions, decisions: Choosing a college
Concord Monitor - Apr 16, 2017
Despite a decade of parenting, this week I made a rookie mistake. In the days leading up to the Easter holiday, I took my daughter into Granite State Candy Shop. With the sweet aroma of fresh chocolate and sugar taunting her senses, I.....
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Campus Visits
8 Things to Do Before Your College Visit
Cappex Blog - Apr 14, 2017
At this time of year, you'll find a great deal of advice about how to make the most of a college visit. But the key to ensuring a successful campus visit should happen many weeks before the trip begins.....
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College Tour - The Final Checklist
Falmouth Enterprise - Apr 14, 2017
Today's article will amplify the concept of college visits that was discussed last week. It is my hope that you have a general sense of the type of school that your son/daughter might want to attend. You should now be gathering some concepts that can help your student to further narrow down the selection.....
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Gap Year
If It's March, It Must Be Morocco: Why The Prefab Gap Year Fails Our Students
WBUR.org - Cognoscenti - Apr 19, 2017
For more than a decade, taking a "Gap Year" between high school and college has been a popular option for European students. The time allows young adults to travel, explore their interests, mature and rejuvenate before attending college. Now, the idea is spreading in the US. The Ivy League and most competitive colleges encourage ....
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3 Reasons To Take a Gap Year
GoLocalProv College Admissions - Apr 6, 2017
For more than a decade, taking a "Gap Year" between high school and college has been a popular option for European students. The time allows young adults to travel, explore their interests, mature and rejuvenate before attending college. Now, the idea is spreading in the US. The Ivy League and most competitive colleges encourage ....
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Counselors
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Post - Apr 19, 2017
A New Take on College Essays The end of the college application season brings the inevitable stream of columns calling for changes to the way colleges admit their students. From plans for free college to renewed efforts to eliminate standardized testing, policy makers, college presidents, and students just completing the process are eager to offer their insights .... More
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Schools can't afford to cut guidance counselors
Charlotte Observer - Apr 14, 2017
One of the hardest things I do as a teacher is lead an advisory group of a dozen sophomores. Until they graduate, this same group of students and I will meet to talk about issues as far ranging as how to sign up for classes to what to do about bullying....
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Parents
Why Parents Pick the Wrong Colleges For Their Kids
TIME - Apr 14, 2017
Before May 1, the deadline for college enrollment deposits, more than half of all college-bound families will screw up their choice of a school. Fully three of five students who ultimately earn a bachelor's degree will have changed colleges. The average time for an undergraduate to earn a diploma is five and a half years...
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A Letter of Apology to a Son Graduating from College
TIME - Apr 6, 2017
Dear Owen, Well, here we are. In just a few weeks you will graduate from college. Many things have happened over the past four years; the biggest is that while I was looking the other way, you became a man — someone who can drink and vote and die for our country. (I know you do the first two; I hope you never do the last.)...
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SATs & ACTs
College Connection: How many times should a student take the SAT exam?
MyCentralJersey.com - Apr 13, 2017
By the time students reach high school, they are tired of taking standardized tests. But this is just the time when students need to be most diligent. Standardized tests in students' earlier years are most important for their school and school district, to determine if educational goals are being met and to rank how the school/district compares t.....
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Choose Between SAT Essay and ACT Writing
US News - Apr 17, 2017
The essay portion of the SAT and ACT is technically optional, but that doesn't mean you should write it off. Many colleges require applicants to provide their essay results from one of the exams, while other schools will consider the SAT essay or ACT writing during the admissions process....
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FinAid/Scholarships
Applying for financial aid, without getting hacked
CBS News - Apr 17, 2017
Suppose that being a good parent of a college-bound child, you jumped through all the hoops and filled out the online FAFSA form to qualify for financial aid. Then you attempted to download all of your tax information from the IRS into the form -- only to find that this sensitive personal information may have been hacked...... ..
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3 things you need to know about your financial aid offer
College USA Today - Apr 17, 2017
t's the time of year when college financial aid offers start to arrive in your mailboxes. Neatly tucked inside the eagerly anticipated envelope can be a dizzying array of numbers and acronyms. To make matters worse, it's difficult to compare one school's aid package to another. ..... ..
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Six tips for decoding college financial aid award letters
Columbia Tribune - Apr 14, 2017
Whether you're a high school senior or an adult looking to change careers, a college degree can be the key to a bright future. As acceptance letters arrive in the mail, another important document is not far behind: financial aid letters.... ..
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'How I knocked $120,000 off our college tab'
CNBC - Apr 13, 2017
With four children between the ages of 13 and 21, Richard Goldberg knew financing college would be a challenge. "Even though we started saving early, the cost of paying for all of this was daunting," he said.... ..
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Career and Technical Education
Vocational Education Teachers in Short Supply
EdWeek (registration required) - Apr 14, 2017
I've written often before about the need to grant vocational education the respect it deserves because not all students have the desire or aptitude to pursue a four-year academic degree. But an equally pressing problem is finding enough teachers to meet the demand of employers ( .. ..
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It's ok to pick vocational education over college
Kokomo Tribune - Apr 13, 2017
During my sophomore year at Proviso West High School in Hillside, Illinois, my guidance counselor, Mr. Gusloff, refused my request to take auto shop because I was, he said, college-bound and my presence in a vocational program would take space needed by a student who was not so destined. .. ..
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Student Athletes
The 5 most commonly asked questions about being a college walk-on
USA Today HSS - Apr 13, 2017
Being considered a walk-on is far more common in college sports than most families and athletes realize. According to the latest NCAA information 46 percent of DI athletes are walk-ons and 39 percent of DII athletes are walk-ons. ...
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South
$2 for TOPS? Financial aid letters confuse families
The Times-Picayune - Apr 14, 2017
New Orleans senior Karriem Bennett worked hard and earned a Louisiana TOPS college scholarship. But when she looked at her financial aid offer from Tulane University, it wasn't the $5,567 she expected ..
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Georgia public college students to pay higher tuition
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Apr 18, 2017
Georgia's 320,000 public college students must pay more to attend school this fall. The state's Board of Regents voted Tuesday to raise tuition by 2 percent at 28 state colleges and universities including its flagship school, the University of Georgia ..
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Kentucky Limits Free 2-Year College Program
Inside Higher Ed - Apr 11, 2017
Kentucky's free community college scholarship program will be limited to students seeking certificates in five industries with worker shortages -- health care, advanced manufacturing, transportation and logistics, business services and internet technology, and construction.. ..
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Teen Depression
Youth and depression: Why it's crucial to intervene early
Vancouver Sun - Apr 15, 2017
Shilpa Narayan was 14 years old when the distress she had tried to hide for years erupted into tears after a teacher asked how her day was going. “I looked at her and I just started crying,” she recalls.. ..
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Early intervention can help combat depression in children
NJ.com - Apr 15, 2017
About a year ago, physician Elliot Rubin introduced something new at his pediatrics practice in East Brunswick and Highland Park - he wanted his patients ages 11 and older to fill out a questionnaire to measure their susceptibility for depression as part of their routine physical wellness visits... ..
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