Archive for May, 2008

Attention, Juniors!!

If you are ending your junior year of high school and looking forward to a summer off, think again. There are things you need to be doing this summer if you are thinking of applying to college.

Juniors, What Should You Do This Summer?

Colleges are looking for passion. If you want to stand out as a college applicant, you have to be more than a great student and athlete. You also have to show your stuff beyond your school and beyond the classroom.

A Gap Year?

The Gap Year is catching on. Long popular in Europe, the Gap Year is taking time between graduating from high school and before entering college to pursue personal goals or interests like travel, working abroad, or volunteering. Read more about the Gap Year at Collegebasics.

August is for Reading

What do University of Florida, Carleton, Skidmore, University of Vermont, and Syracuse have in common? They all require entering freshman to read an assigned book over the summer.