May 13, 2013 Top College Application Stories in the News: May 13, 2013 News about your application for college and your college essay. Late Applicant? 200 Colleges Still Accepting Applications Advice from a College Dean of Admissions on Selecting High School Courses College Search App for High School Juniors College Essay Topics for the Common [...]
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March 8, 2013. On August 1, 2013, students entering their senior year of high school will be able to download a new Common Application form here. There will be MAJOR changes in the essay prompts from the previous application. Gone is the prompt, “Topic of your choice,” to be replaced by a number of new [...]
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March 6, 2013. If you are a college applicant with more time than money, then you are a perfect candidate to explore this list of scholarships. Some require an essay. Students in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area may find it helpful to attend this class: Writing Essays to Win Scholarships. Need more assistance with writing [...]
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September 11, 2012. High school students applying to college need to make a decision about when they will submit their application. Students think: Is there an advantage to submitting my application earlier for early action or early decision, or should I wait and retake my SAT or ACT for a higher score? Should I wait [...]
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August 12, 2012. After an Essay Coaching workshop, one high school student said to me: Now I understand. High school essays are about what we know. College application essays are about who we are. She was right. Colleges want to know more about you than whether you can get an “A” on your physics test. [...]
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What is college for? Is it simply a way to make more money? Is a B.A. really worth one million dollars in increased lifetime earnings? College is more than a job training factory, argues Columbia English Professor Andrew Delbanco in his new book, College, What it Was, Is, and Should Be, published this month by [...]
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October 18, 2011. If you are applying to college, you have certainly heard: “What do you want to do? What are you interested in?” You don’t have to know what you want to do when you write your college application essay. You simply have to know what you care about, what you’ve done about [...]
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September 13, 2011. If you are applying to college, take five minutes and watch the video below, even though you may not be applying to Yale. Marcia Landesman, a Yale Admissions Officer, eloquently describes what Yale is looking for in an essay. She says to make your essay specific, use an anecdote, have a point, [...]
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August 23, 2011. “The calendar may say August, but it is not too early to begin thinking about—and working on—college applications,” says Peter Van Buskirk in U.S. News and World Report. His six steps for getting organized are: 1. Develop a timeline, 2. Create a college spreadsheet, 3. Establish a filing system for application materials, [...]
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