The short activity essay is required as part of your Common Application. You may also see something similar requested in the supplemental essays for certain colleges. This essay is about showing your passion for something you do, whether or not it is an in-school activity or a hobby or work.
2007 has ushered in new laws governing student loans.
Some of you haven’t been admitted into college yet, others of you are working to get your undergraduate degree, and some of you have just graduated and are now walking out into an economy that is slowing down and has higher unemployment. Many college grads feel they should ride out this economic dip by going […]
There is a New England-like campus out there, complete with brick buildings, in a small town of Kentucky named Berea! Have you heard of it? Berea is getting quite a bit of attention lately, and recently Tamar Lewin wrote an article on it in The New York Times. Because it is one of the nation’s […]
The Education Department published a report this spring entitled Parent Expectations and Planning for College. This report is based on survey questions answered by parents of both middle school and high school students about their children and planning for college.
As you seniors begin the process of applying to college this year, you might want a look at the playing field. You are entering an era of record selectivity in top-tiered colleges, colleges such as Stanford, Yale, Harvard, Middlebury, and Duke. Other colleges with very low admittance percentages this past year are Princeton, the University […]
Ann Pleshette Murphy of USA Weekend wrote last April about new ways to prepare for the SAT. Here are the three suggestions she made.
Stress! That will be the dominating word if you do not take some proactive steps to ready yourself for applying to colleges your senior year. Before you know it, deadlines will approach and you will be run over by the golden, winged chariot of time!
While the ivies are rejecting nine out of ten of their applicants, students are wondering how to get an edge for admission to their dream college. One edge, some feel, is taking the right standardized test, the one on which you can score the best.
This month The College Board finally changed its policy for reporting SAT scores to colleges. The standard procedure is that you name the colleges and they get the test scores—period. If you take the SAT once and your scores are not great, those scores go to the college you are applying to. Then, if you […]