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  Test Prep for Parents - Getting Your Priorities Straight
  Why parents need to spend more time focusing on the things that really matter to college admissions.
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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “college admissions”

 

• Admissions Waitlist Turns Students Into Stalkers

  
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  Today the New York Times takes us into a new kind of dating world, a world fraught with insecurity, inappropriate behavior, and heartbreak. That world is the college admissions waitlist . Read more...        
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• College Choices and Options for Your Teenager

  
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  Nothing is more difficult as a parent than watching your babies leave the nest. This moment can happen at any age, but one of the most common associations is on the day they start college courses. Even if your child will be living at home for a few years when they start school, the beginning of college still ...
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• Choosing a Less “Glamorous” College—and Loving It

  
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  Each year, many applicants get admitted their dream college but don’t receive enough financialaid to be able to afford it. For these students, the realization that they’ll have to goelsewhere for financial reasons can be disappointing. Fortunately, it doesn’thave to stay that way for long. In the ...
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• For Freshmen-to-Be, It’s Not Summer Just Yet

  
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  If you’ve already chosen a college for the fall, you mightbe tempted to coast a bit until the end of the school year. While this might seem harmless—even normal—a recent postfrom the CollegePlanning Blog reminds us that all acceptance letters include “fineprint”; specifically, you must earn ...
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• College Confidential – What’s The Buzz All About?

  
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  Have you ever used College Confidential? College Confidential is a popular website for prospective college students, and their families, that allows them to participate in what is dubbed the “World Largest College Forum”. While on the site you can find thousands of posts and discussions related to college ...
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• What You Need to Know About College References

  
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  This article is just one in an ongoing series of articles to help high school seniors prepare themselves for college. Your admission to college is based on several factors including your grades, your test scores and your extracurricular activities. Another factor, sometimes not recognized for its importance, are the ...
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• 4 College Admissions Myths Debunked

  
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  4 College Admissions Myths Join me for a free college prep program, “Less Stress, More Success” May 9 at Ridgefield Park and Rec. Click here for more info. Lately, I’ve been speaking to students and families just starting the college process. The students and parents always have great questions, but I ...
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• Seniors, Are You Still Looking For A College? Check Out NACAC’s Space Availability Survey for 2013!

  
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  According to the National Association for College Admission Counseling’s (NACAC) annual Space Availability Survey at least 210 colleges and universities still have space available for qualified freshman and/or transfer students and all have financial aid to offer. If you are a senior in high school, or transfer ...
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• Ten Things To Do Now That You Have Chosen Your College

  
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  Seniors, now that National College Decision Day has passed you might be wondering, what’s next? There are a number of steps you should make sure to take to wrap things up. Here you go! 1.  Let the other colleges you were accepted to know that you will not be attending.  If you were accepted to other colleges it ...
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• Three Reasons an American Student Chose a Canadian Boarding School

  
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  I visited a few minutes with Shawnigan Lake student, Rosa about how she chose Shawnigan Lake , one of Canada’s largest boarding schools, as student coming from California’s Bay Area. Boarding school, and Shawnigan’s international student experience, in particular, offered Rosa opportunities that stretched her ...
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• Should We Still Use “Race” To Get Past “Race”?

  
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  A major ruling is coming soon. Will be controversial either way. I have to admit, I am still not sure which side of this debate I fall on. Honestly, I see the arguments on both sides as having merit. Thirty-five years after the Supreme Court set the terms for boosting college admissions of African Americans and ...
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• It’s May 1 – Five Things Seniors Should Double Check Today!

  
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  May is here and that means it is National College Decision Day! Seniors, have you put down your enrollment deposit with the college of your choice? May 1 is a big date in the college admissions process for both colleges and high school students. Colleges and universities across the country celebrate (or wait ...
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• 3 Waves of Scholarships

  
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  Scholarships come in waves.  They don’t all come at once, they don’t all come when you receive college admission. They don’t all come by the time you have to decide on your college, either.  They certainly don’t come when it’s convenient, that’s for sure. Three Waves of Scholarships  Scholarships ...
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• Nerd News: When College Admissions Essays Go Viral

  
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  Do you really want people reading stuff you wrote when you were 17 and clueless?
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• IHT Rendezvous: The Trans-Atlantic College Search

  
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  What happens when an American family lives overseas and it’s time to shop for college? A writer who specializes in higher education and his daughter begin their search. Has your family navigated this process?        
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• College Reality Check Tool

  
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  by Larry Blumenstyk, J.D., IECA (New Jersey) The Chronicle of Higher Education has released its initial publicly available version of its College Reality Check tool. Although I never tried to use the College Scorecard released by the White House, I have now used College Reality Check and would like to share my ...
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• During Your College Admissions Search You Might End Up Using All Of Your Senses

  
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  Colleges like to use the five senses when trying to attract prospective students to their school. During campus tours the admissions staff often encourages prospective students to make use of all their senses – whether it is to  taste the food, hear from staff and faculty, touch lucky statues, see the ...
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• What to Do If Your Admit Offer Comes with a Catch

  
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  Most discussions of admit decisions focuson the three basic types: admits,denials, and waitlists . However, there’s a special type of acceptance—onethat, according to the New York Times ,is increasingly common but still infrequently discussed. It’s an admit with a catch: you’re admitted,but not for the ...
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• Looking To Go To Law School? You Might Want To Consider A Degree In The Classics!

  
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  If you are looking to go on to law school, or have a career in law, it is likely that you have considered a degree in political science or history, but what about the Classics? A recent article on the Colgate University website described how alumni from the Department of the Classics at Colgate University returned ...
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• High school senior’s viral op-ed lacks maturity

  
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  High school senior Suzy Lee Weiss was rejected from her top-choice colleges in the Ivy League, which as a group received a total of 247,283 applications and accepted 23,010 for an acceptance rate of 9.3 percent for the class of 2017. From the perspective of students, the admissions process can be inscrutable, even ...
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