In Part I, Round Holes, we considered how you should look at colleges – the criteria to bring to your search for happiness. In this part, we’ll ask you to get in touch with your gut feelings.
Topics: College Application, College Planning, Educational-Consulting
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“I thought the ‘best’ college for me was the most selective - I was wrong”
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We put you in the shoes of college admissions officers, so that you can sense their point of view with these facts:
Topics: College Admission, College Application, College Counseling, College Planning, Educational-Consulting
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From five Florida State University System schools, we have this important information about submitting the Student Self-Reported Academic Record (SSAR).
Topics: College Admission, College Application, College Planning
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Your academic record, especially the rigor of the courses you took, and your SAT/ACT scores are still the door-openers for college admissions, and if you’re looking for acceptance at a college that admits most applicants, those measures may be enough. But if you want to be considered for admission to more selective schools, those measures aren’t nearly enough, and here’s why: You have real competition – lots of other students who want to attend those same selective schools – and their academic record and SAT/ACT scores are likely to be comparable to yours, if not better. Otherwise, those students wouldn’t be your competition, would they?
Topics: College Admission, College Application
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Not all applications for Florida universities are created equal. There are important differences and knowing them can save you time, effort and frustration in the application process.
Topics: AP Exams, Test Scores, College Admission, College Application, College Planning
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Your high school grade point average (GPA) is the #1 piece of information that schools look at when they’re considering applicants — in fact, it would probably be the #2, and #3 things, too, if that made sense. It’s been that way forever, and it’s not going to change within your lifetime, if ever.
Topics: Test Scores, College Admission, Test-Prep, College Application
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We bring to your attention this blog published in early May of this year on cnbc.com concerning students who take AP tests:
Topics: AP Exams, Test Scores, College Admission, College Application, College Planning
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Here’s a teaser concerning ZeeMee (about which we’ll have more to say later in this post), that comes from a February 16, 2017 Voice of America blog on voanews.com:
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We coddle our toddlers, dreaming big dreams for their future: health, academic excellence, outstanding athletics, sharpness, endowed with common sense, and so on and so forth. Reality usually delivers a different picture, one we customarily learn to live with. Fast forward to middle school, and to more specific dreams that both student and parent may share about the future – dreams that require foresight and advocacy.
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