Senior Year Calendar
Download and print up
this month to month calendar from College Board to help your Senior keep track of all the details.
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Junior Year Calendar
Download and print up
this month to month calendar from College Board to help your Junior stay on track
and prepare effectively for Senior year and applications.
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Character Counts: What Are
Colleges Looking For?
What
are college admission officers looking for when they read your application? They take into account more than your GPA
and test scores. Your character and the personal qualities you can bring to a college are important too. That's
why you need to think about your goals, accomplishments and personal values and figure out how you can best express those
in you applications. Click the link below for the full College Board article...
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High School Classes Colleges Look
For
If you're in high school
and you're thinking about college - and you should be - you should know that the courses you take now matter. That's
because college admission officers want to see a solid foundation of learning that you can build on in college.
To create that foundation, take at least 5 solid academic classes
EVERY semester. Start with the basics, and then move..." Click the link below for the rest of the College
Board Article.
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No Acceptance Letters? You
Still Have Options!
Even if you didn't receive any college acceptance letters this time around, you still have options - and you can still
go to college. The United States is home to almost 4,000 colleges, and you have time to plan your next move and find
a college that's right for you.
Your first step is to talk to your counselor, your principal or a teacher...
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What To Do About
Senioritis - Help Your Child Make Senior Year Count
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Discover 10 Ways to Jump-Start College
Planning -
Help Your Child Take the Right
Steps, Now
Decisions your child makes
as early as 8th grade can have a huge effect on his college career. They might affect how soon your child will go to
college, what type of college he attends, and even whether he will go to college at all.
As a result, there can be a lot of pressure on students to do
the necessary work to get into the college...
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Preparing for a College Campus Visit - Know Before You Go
Check out these great ideas for how to plan ahead to get the most out of
any College Visit you may make. Download the entire College Board
article below.
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Campus Visit Checklist - Make the
Most of the Trip
If you are
visiting a campus or your student is, here are some great ideas to get the most out of the time that you are on any campus.
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List
of Colleges That Still Require the SAT II Subject Tests - Online list and article from Eduplan
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How do I encourage my son to bring up his GPA?
Forget the Grades, Focus
on the Study Skills. This article from Newsweek shares some
ideas on a different way to focus on helping your student to bring up those grades. Reprinted from a Newsweek article
12/22/10.
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The Extracurricular Edge - What
your students should know about out-of-school activities
You know that there is more than meets the eye to the admissions game, and you
want to give your students any edge you can. Admissions officers know that what potential students do with their
time outside of school reveals important personal dimensions that statistics can't show.
Here are some tips for making those extracurricular count.
... click on the link below for the rest of
the College Board article.
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Start Planning for College
It's not too early to start thinking about
your future. If you're in middle school or just starting high school, there's plenty you can do now to help
yourself get ready for college. Here are 10 things you can do to get started:
Here are 10 tips for all students, middle school & high school
to help you get ready for college. ...
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Great Free Online Study Program
- Mobile Apps(free/fee)also
Quizlet.com
has great free online study tools with pre-made (I would check for accuracy and usefulness) and tools to make your own study
cards and review sessions. The blog also has great mobile apps the are free or for a fee for the Iphone, Ipad, Itouch,
Android phones, Palm OS phones, and Windows Mobile phones. Always have access to your study cards so you can study on
the go!
Click here to go to the Quizlet.com website