Speaker: Julie Armenta Register: 949.425.5100 Location: Crown Valley Park, View Room, Laguna Niguel, CA Activity # 2013/Sep 25/Thursday/7pm/Free Julie Armenta, M.A. Educational & Family Specialist, will educate both parents and teens with helpful tips for getting into the college of their choice. Reduce the anxiety of the application process by being educated. Julie will guide [...]
Students can pick which scores a school sees…Attention, high school juniors: Starting next spring, you can determine which of your SAT scores a college gets to see. The College Board’s current policy is that if you send one score to a school, that college also sees the scores from every time you took the test. [...]
Surveys of admissions officers show that fewer than 30 percent of the students who agree to stay on a college’s wait list are eventually accepted. At many elite schools, the chances are even slimmer. In recent years, for example, Massachusetts Institute of Technology has accepted anywhere between none and 40 students from its wait list [...]
President Bush this month signed an emergency law that will make it easier for students and parents to borrow more this fall. Congress raised by $2,000 a year the maximum students can borrow through the federal Stafford program, which charges no more than 6.8 percent (with an additional 2 percentage points in fees). And it [...]
Gap year. Are you familiar with this term? Gap year typically refers to a transitional year between high school and college during which a student takes a break from school and works or volunteers either in the United States or abroad. It can also refer to a break taken during college or after college. Although [...]