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It can be hard to put together a list of schools when you’re trying to decide where to go to college. Here are some tips from a college admissions expert to broaden your search, save you money, and lower your college debt. All important things to keep in mind when you choose a college that’s right for you.
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Has the college search got you tied in knots of anxiety? Is your senior worried about what college they’ll get into? Do they think their life is going to be “ruined” if they don’t get into their first choice university? Are they worried about getting into a “good” college? Then this advice from college admissions counselor Jim Jump is for them. It’s so healthy to think of the college search as a process of learning, instead of a competition. The college admissions process is a journey, not a destination.
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Applying to college can be a long and confusing process. Use the advice of these five experts on college admissions to guide you and help you stay organized and focused.
5 experts give you their top advice for applying to college…
If you have no idea where you want to go to college, or what you want to study, starting the process can be over-whelming. Where do you even start your college search?
You might start your college search on-line. But good old-fashioned books can still be your best resource for going through the process in an organized way and to make sense of it all. Here’s a short list of 5 books to get you started!…
It’s almost that time again – time to start on college applications! But how do you choose a college? How do you know which university is right for you?
You need to think beyond name brand colleges that have an admission rate around only 5%!
Here’s a roundup of free articles and resources to get you started on your college search. And when you finish with those, don’t forget the important last step to choosing a college at the bottom of this post!…
It’s always gratifying when research backs up what you’ve been personally experiencing. And the research comes from Harvard, no less! Last year Harvard released the report, Turning the Tide. Their research shows that college admission practices are damaging our children and are harmful to society. And the press responded favorably, giving them a lot of positive press coverage for the report….
Sometimes it takes a photo to picture clearly what’s been there all along. (We’re so used to being conscious about gender equality that I had a hard time finding a photo to publish that shows the gender ratio that I saw in a Gifted and Talented (GT) math class photo.)
After hating math for years, our daughter was super excited about her geometry class project, designing tiny houses for a local homeless community. The class took a field trip to the community to kick off this project based learning. Her teacher sent a photo of the GT (gifted and talented) math class on it.
That was when I found out my daughter’s GT math class was 80% boys!
I was shocked to see that in a class of twenty, there were only four girls.
I shouldn’t have been….
Max CEO and Co-Founder of Castle working at Rebirth House
Generation Startup is a documentary I just started watching on Netflix. It follows young entrepreneurs and employees of other startups as they try to make new companies successful. In the first ten minutes, several things have already caught my attention. Are low numbers of young entrepreneurs caused by our broken education system?
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You can’t get copies of the test questions or your answers if you take an ACT District administered test. This is opposed to the ACT national test dates. (Other exceptions are International, State, and Special test dates.) For example, the ACT test date in April during a school week (not a Saturday) is a District test.
There does not seem to be any logical explanations for this….
Does education make you bad at investing in the stock market? Does it make you a bad investor?
Does education make you bad at investing in the stock market? Does it make you a bad investor?
One of my fears is that the US education system is hurting the chances of our best and brightest of being a success.
If I encourage my kids to be great students and devote time to making good grades, will they end up being successful students, but not successful in life?
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