Admissions
College applications can be due any time from November to January each year, depending on if you choose to apply early or regular decision. If you’re applying to a school that has rolling admissions, you may even be able to submit an application during the summer after graduation and still […]
A Quick and Easy Breakdown of the College Application
You’re one month into senior year of high school. Can you believe how fast it’s gone? Soon enough, deadlines will have come and gone, letters will be in your mailbox, and prom and graduation will fly by. This all means that it’s time to get a move on and start […]
The October Checklist for Students Applying to College
As someone who writes a lot about college admissions, I have to come clean. Back when I was a senior in high school, I knew none of it. I was wildly unprepared for the college application process. Not only was I behind in most of the things I should have […]
Should You Take Any SAT Subject Tests?
Picking the colleges you want to apply to can feel like ordering lunch from Subway at noon on a beach day. You can ask the sandwich artist to put the perfect amount of sauce and veggies on your sub, but the urge to simply get it done and be on […]
Questions to Ask Yourself to Find Your Dream School
High school guidance counselors are often overloaded with assignments, especially in public schools. In fact, in 2013, the national average student to school counselor ratio was 482 to 1. Even though your counselors are in-demand, be patient and hold out for those meetings. Behind their crazy schedules and back-to-back meetings […]
Questions to Ask Your Guidance Counselor before Applying to College
Packing up your things from your childhood home and moving away is basically the college initiation. Everyone has to do it. Doing it as a student who has hearing loss, however, can feel like going down a slalom course without any skiing lessons. If you’re not properly prepared for going […]
How to Prepare for College as a Student with Hearing Loss
You’ve been working hard throughout high school to take standardized tests and think about your future, but senior year is crunch time for college applications. If you are applying to start college next year, here’s what you should be doing this September: Print out the complete college application checklist to […]
The September Checklist for Students Applying to College
Transferring schools can be quite the endeavor. First, there’s the tough decision. You have to decide if you need to leave one school for physical, mental, academic, social, financial, or environmental reasons. Once you figure that out, you have to search for the school that offers you a viable alternative, […]
Transfer Students: How to Thrive on Your New Campus
It’s only August, but the time is ripe for high school seniors to create a list of schools to which they want to apply and begin working on their college applications. For those of you who aren’t seniors, there are still plenty of things on your to-do list. Juniors should […]
Three Things You Need to Know about College Admissions
If you’re a high school student, your mailbox has surely been flooded with colorful college brochures. The pictures of their campuses start to blend together. Guy throwing Frisbee on the quad. Professor pensively listening to a student. Woman at library poring over her books. What college does that describe? According […]
How to Win at the College Fair
Early action (EA) is an admissions policy that allows prospective freshmen to get a head start on the college application process. By submitting EA applications well before the regular application deadline, you can receive your admissions decision (an acceptance, a rejection, or a maybe) in December of your senior year. […]
Seven Reasons to Consider Applying to College Early Action
The GRE (Graduate Record Examinations) is kind of like the SAT for graduate school. It is a standardized admissions test, and graduate schools and many business schools factor a student’s results into application consideration. Like the SAT, it consists of three sections: verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, and writing. The verbal […]