The Education Department published a report this spring entitled Parent Expectations and Planning for College. This report is based on survey...
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Competition for College Applicants
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...
New SAT Prep Guides
Ann Pleshette Murphy of USA Weekend wrote last April about new ways to prepare for the SAT. Here are the three suggestions she made.
Get Ready for College Applications BEFORE you Start your Senior Year
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...
Which Gives You an Edge: the ACT or the SAT?
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...
Blogger Breaks Summer Hiatus with SAT News
This month The College Board finally changed its policy for reporting SAT scores to colleges. The standard procedure is that you name the colleges...
On-line Education
Justin Pope has written top universities are catching up with the technology revolution and beginning to provide course work on line. The largest...
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...
Juniors, What Should You Do This Summer?
Colleges are looking for passion. If you want to stand out as a college applicant, you need to be more than a great student and athlete. You also...
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...