Posts Tagged College Planning
Standardized tests not always best indicator of success
Posted by Jerry in Admissions on September 2nd, 2010
By Donald Heller, Director of Penn State’s Center for the Study of Higher Education
Penn State Live
August 23, 2010
How much time and money have you and your teenager put into preparing to take a college entrance exam? If you are like most families sending a student to college the expense has been substantial. After that kind of effort to ensure a good score you will not care for comments made by Dr. Heller or graduate students in professional programs about what all these standardized exams actually have to offer. Find out more by following this link. http://live.psu.edu/story/47967.
How to Prepare High School Students for College
Posted by Jerry in Good Advice on June 1st, 2010
Suite101.com
May 15, 2010 (Ashley Anderson)
This information is most helpful if freshmen and their parents put it into practice but it can help at any level. All the decisions made beginning in the freshmen year of high school will impact the decisions college admission professionals make about you. Don’t give them any reason to doubt that you are and will continue to be an excellent addition to their campus. Read the whole article at the address below.
http://college-preparation.suite101.com/article.cfm/how-to-prepare-high-school-students-for-college
High school juniors need to look ahead so they don’t get too far behind
Posted by Jerry in Good Advice on May 15th, 2010
Northjersey.com
Thursday, April 22, 2010 (Pat Restaino)
The high school student planning on attending college is accepted or rejected on the merit of what they accomplished up through their junior year. Many colleges will make the admittance decisions before the first reporting period of the senior year. This means that the application process begins half way through the junior year. Students that are not already laid the groundwork for their college applications are a step behind. If take advantage of these last few weeks before summer break you can get on track to and remove most of the anxiety of the application process. Don’t waste any more time. If you don’t know what to do next, just ask. http://www.northjersey.com/news/education/your_college_advisor/91784989_High_school_juniors_need_to_look_ahead_so_they_don_t_get_too_far_behind.html