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Welcome to grade groveling season, the time of year when parents across America look at their senior's laundry and say "What are these stains on the knees of these pants, and how did they get there?"
Many families assume their search for college cash ends when they file the FAFSA. That's really just the beginning -- here's what to know after you hit submit.
I want to correct some common misconceptions and provide sound advice to navigate yet another obstacle in the undergraduate admission gauntlet.
Do we do a disservice to our children's sense of self-reliance and authenticity by being too vigorously involved in the college application process?
We believe that providing a platform to connect colleges with high school students will encourage youth to set and achieve new education goals instead of settling for the bare minimum.
In an effort to lure top high school students to enroll and their parents to pay annual tuition, room and board pushing into the $50,000-plus stratosp...
I can't consider myself officially done because I haven't been accepted anywhere yet. I won't be truly done until I make my final decision. Besides, now I have to enter Financial Aid-topia.
If you're a high school junior or sophomore, you're going to need to take a standardized college admission exam to, well, get into college. So the question arises, which one do you take?
"So tell me, why the University of Chicago?" My interviewer, an alumni of the school, asked me toward the end of our conversation. Here's my answer to the million-dollar question.
I looked away from the screen in fear and hit the refresh button. "We have completed our Early Action review of your application and have chosen to defer it to our Regular Action review time."
Grades, standardized test scores, personal statement, teacher recommendations - there are many different pieces to the college application puzzle. Do ...
If we want to ensure a chance at a better life for our kids, a good place to start is by making sure that teachers have the tools to help their students reach success, step by step.
We should smash the corrupting influence of athletics in our high schools, colleges and universities. Like students in the rest of the world, Americans should go to school for no other purpose than to learn.
My parents never used the word "we" when talking about the process. My son is a senior this year, and I have slipped more than once. I hereby vow to stop.
If you accept the research that higher socioeconomic status is the single greatest factor in academic performance, then Rivera is outlining a process that not only bakes in inequality, but deepens it over time.
We all know the average SAT score needed to get into Harvard and the Fall 2010 acceptance rate at Brown. But for years we've also known something else: schools want "good citizen" candidates. Huh?
