The Admission Process
Keep Your Summer Golden with These 5 College Planning Tips
Rising Seniors: As the sun lights up summer evenings, you can bask in the relaxation of BBQs and pool parties. It’s an enchanting feeling of getting lost in the warmth and timelessness. As you recharge, it’s also a crucial period of preparation for the final bow of your high school career and the exciting college…
Reinforcing Your College Search with “Colleges That Change Lives”
Seniors (new and graduating): June is the month of change. Juniors rise to their highly anticipated senior level and seniors proudly accept their hard-earned diploma. For those college-bound students, the process of a college search is over and can now become a memory. For incoming seniors of ’17, however, it has only begun. College Search…
Missed Fall 2015 Admissions? It’s Not Too Late
Students unlucky in the college admissions game can still get in under the wire. Plenty of circumstances may have arose that deterred your student from acceptance. Maybe all of their choices fell through. Maybe they wavered between attending college or not and finally decided to take the plunge. Late Admission? No Problem No matter the…
College Choice: How Important is Financial Fit?
Seniors: Acceptance letters are in! Seniors have less than a month to finalize their college choice. Most seniors have applied to multiple colleges, and potentially found two, three, or more acceptance letters sitting in their mailbox or popping up in their inbox. While some find the choice is a no-brainer, others are stumped. Out of…
Financial Aid Awards: Can You Spot the Differences?
Seniors: Your applications are complete. Admission and financial aid offers are starting to come in. It can be confusing to decipher exactly what portion of the awards are free and which come with a cost. On average private colleges discount 46% of college tuition for first-year applicants. Wow, it sounds like a decent chunk of…
Opening the College Dialogue Channel: Ask Questions!
As seniors sweat out the weeks before acceptance letters arrive in the mailbox (or in many cases, e-mail), parents can turn their attention to younger, future college-bound children who will one day walk down the same path. Begin planting fundamental seeds that will promote a highly successful end result for their college career. This can…