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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. The junior year of high school is an important planning

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. Summer programs vary greatly and

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 G

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. What do Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tim O’Brienâ