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If you are applying to college and have to respond to a writing prompt that limits you to 150, 200, or 250 words, you may wrinkle your brow and wonder whatever you can say in that little space! Well, College Basics’ section on seven ways to make

The National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC) publishes an annual report that tracks the trends in college costs, applications, admissions, and financial aid, among other things. It can be very useful to know what kinds of trends

More and more students are applying to college! The increase in senior applications to post-secondary schools is rising due to several factors. The first is that the children of the largest population balloon in U.S. history, the baby Boomers, are r

The Christian Science Monitor has a new five-part series that follows six high school students throughout their 2006 senior year, describing what they went through in choosing, applying, and deciding on a college. The first part takes the reader thro

Education is an investment, but with the high college costs of today you have to weigh how good an investment any one college degree is. According to figures provided in a recent Associated Press article by Leslie Wines graduate education costs are u