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What You Need to Know: Transfer Admissions
Navegando el proceso de transferencia a la universidad
Panel Discussion Excerpt: Financing Your College Education
Extracto: Financiamiento de tu educación universitaria
Panel Discussion: Building a Smart College List
Construyendo una lista de universidades astuta
Panel Discussion: Your Transfer Questions Answered
Respuestas a sus preguntas de transferencia
Paying for College: 4 Steps for High School Sophomores
Let’s cut to the chase and try to keep this as brief as possible while giving you helpful information. College is expensive! We know paying for college is on most families’ minds.
College Essay Tips from Admissions Counselors
For many students, writing the college essay can feel like the most intimidating part of the application process. As you look ahead to starting yours, keep these great words of advice in mind from admissions counselors at Bucknell University. These tips can help take the pressure off and keep you focused on what matters as you share your story.
What Experiences Should I Look for in High School?
High school is an exciting opportunity to continue learning and growing as a student. It’s also where many students begin thinking about college. This is because high school is an important step in your educational journey to help you prepare for college as well as to develop your skills as a student and as a community member.
What Do Colleges Really Look for?
As you begin to think about applying to colleges, you may wonder: What do colleges look for when they review applications? This is one of the questions that admissions representatives receive most frequently when we meet students and their families. Many selective colleges practice an admissions process that looks at the applicant as a whole person.
How to Make the Most of Summer
Are you thinking through how to make the most out of summer for the college search and application process? If so we hope these tips help you to navigate this time period and identify meaningful experiences that you can share with colleges and universities while also helping you prepare for the college application process.
Strategies for Academic Success
What is academic success? While attending high school, academic success means achieving a high GPA, making the honor roll, participation in organizations, and achieving good SAT or ACT scores. All of the activities you engage in are in preparation for your university life. Gaining practice in fine-tuning your academic skills by seeking out academic help like tutoring, mentoring, and peer coaching is essential to succeeding.
How Much Does College Really Cost?
If you want to learn what it will cost to attend a college, you might try looking up its tuition. But that number won’t tell you much. Going to college often costs both more and less than the tuition figure that’s posted on the website. Confused? That’s OK. Keep reading.
How to Make the Most out of High School Outside the Classroom
There are many factors taken into consideration when admissions committees are reviewing applications. Who you are matters both inside and outside of the classroom.
How to Make the Most out of High School Inside the Classroom
When you apply to college, part of the application review process is an assessment of your transcript. What are colleges and universities looking for in their transcript review? Here are a few tips to keep in mind:
3 College Myths and Their Real Answers
There are over 4,000 colleges and universities in the country, all with different academic programs, extracurricular options, and campus traditions and cultures.
The College Process: It’s All About the Journey, not the Destination.
The college process can be incredibly intimidating, and that’s coming from someone who has made a college admissions his career! Whether you have already been thinking about college or are just starting to, it is hard to know where to even begin.
Why Mentors Matter and How to Find One
There is a famous psychologist, Lee Vygotsky, who had this to say about how people learn, “Through others we become ourselves.” When you think about how you became skilled at something, what do you credit for how you became that way?
How to Communicate – And Not Communicate – With Your Dream School
Our friends at Coalition member University of Tampa have seen and heard it all from prospective students.
From bad grammar in emails to phone calls from moms and dads (groan!), they know a thing or two about how not to communicate with prospective colleges