Grown & Flown

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

And the seasons, they go round and round and the painted ponies go up and down. We’re captive on the carousel of time. The Circle Game by Joni Mitchell Thanksgiving has changed through the years and we are now the adults at the table. (Shutterstock PeopleImages.com – Yuri A) As Thanksgiving approaches and I begin my preparations, I think about how the complexion of our holiday table and my perception of the holiday have shifted over time.

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Ruffaloni

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

How Elmira College Enrolled Their Best Class in 10 Years Despite FAFSA Fiascos and Campus Silos Dennis Kelly, Elmira College Dennis Kelly has seen a lot in his 30 years in higher education. He had success at multiple institutions—Cheyney University, Notre Dame University of Maryland, Cabrini University, Georgian Court, Marywood University, and Wilmington College.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Warning : The subtitle is this blog is “That you may not like to hear.” And unlike most of my intros, we’re not going to waste time or words on analogies, personal anecdotes, or admittedly stretched parallels. Instead, after watching this cycle repeat itself, here are the three direct messages/ primary hopes I have for juniors entering the college admission experience.

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UGA Undergraduate Admissions Q & A

APRIL 8, 2024

I am going to tell you secret about me – I love movie theater popcorn. It is my kryptonite. If I go to the movies, I need to have a large bucket of popcorn with the butter layered throughout. For me, half of the enjoyment of going to a movie is the popcorn. But, like with anything else, too much of a good thing can make for a bad night. I have had more than a few post-popcorn times where my stomach hated my lack of popcorn control.

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BestColleges

AUGUST 28, 2024

Women account for almost 30% of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. However, the majority (66%) of those women are white. To help improve diversity in the field, BestColleges, for the second year in a row, is awarding $6,000 each to five Black women studying STEM fields to help fund their education. "After starting this scholarship last year, this second cycle did not disappoint, and we received more interest from high school students, undergraduate and gradua

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College Transitions

JULY 15, 2024

For aspiring doctors, the journey to medical school is often viewed as a challenging and competitive process. While excellent grades and strong MCAT scores are certainly crucial, the role of one’s undergraduate institution in shaping this path is a topic of great interest to students, parents, and educators alike.

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AdmissionSight

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

So, you’re an introvert, and the thought of big classes and endless group discussions in college scares you. Don’t fret just yet! Luckily, there are majors designed for those who thrive better in quieter settings, where you can focus deeply and work independently. If you’re into creative work, data analysis, or even counseling, there’s a major out there that’s perfect for you.

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JON BOECKENSTEDT'S ADMISSIONS WEBLOG

JUNE 12, 2024

Last week, I wrote about how College Board and the Highly Rejective Colleges are to blame for the concerns being expressed by many high school and independent counselors about the lack of SAT testing sites in their communities. In some discussion groups I participate in, these concerns are increasing and amplifying.

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road2college

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This guide dives into the Public Ivies, showcasing each school’s academic strengths, campus culture, and admissions. You’ll find insights on. The post Comparing the Public Ivies: Is One Right for You? appeared first on Road2College.

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PrepScholar

AUGUST 21, 2024

You may have seen a lot of news in the past few years about closed colleges. It's true; many colleges have shut down in the past decade, and some sources estimate that roughly one college closes down each week. Which colleges have closed, and why? And should you be concerned about the school you're interested in or attending closing? Read this guide to learn which colleges have closed down since 2015, what happens when a college closes, and why there have been more closed colleges in recent year

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Grown & Flown

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

About 14 years ago, I sat in a church service with my husband and tiny daughter. My mind settled on the family in front of us. Two parents and three teenagers. I have thought about this family so often over the years and even more recently. It was the early service. The teenagers were awake but looked rumpled. Two boys and a girl. And I looked at them with envy.

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College Essay Guy

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

TABLE OF CONTENTS (click to skip ahead) What Are the University of Florida Supplemental Essay Prompts? How to Write Each Supplemental Essay Prompt for the University of Florida How to Write UF Supplemental Essay Prompt #1 How to Write UF Supplemental Essay Prompt #2 How to Write UF Supplemental Essay Prompt #3 How to Write UF Supplemental Essay Prompt #4 UF Honors Program Founded in 1853, the University of Florida (UF) is consistently regarded as one of the top public universities in the nation

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

MARCH 9, 2024

Thursday, February 22 Atlanta, GA : 5 a.m. My vibrating watch alarm went off. After 20 years of marriage, I’ve learned the hard way not to set an audible alarm before 6 a.m. (actually, that one only took me about two weeks). Groggily, I drug myself downstairs and fed the cat — which is better than feeding myself and drugging the cat, I suppose.

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Scoir

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

When I started college admissions counseling 20 years ago, students would come to meetings hefting heavy boxes of viewbooks they'd received from colleges. They'd dump them unceremoniously on my office floor and ask, "How do I tell these schools apart when they all look and sound alike?" As I moved through my career, I began to see fewer viewbooks and hear more complaints about the volume of recruiting emails flooding student inboxes.

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Sacramento State University announced plans to open the nation's first Black Honors College this fall. The college will be an "institution within the institution" with its own faculty, staff, and learning spaces. All students interested in Black history, life, and culture are encouraged to apply. Sacramento State University announced its plans for a Black Honors College on campus, the first college or university to ever pursue an honors program specifically dedicated to supporting Black students

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College Transitions

OCTOBER 22, 2024

If you’re anything like me, you probably have a long list of books you’ve been meaning to read. Allow me to add to that already lengthy list. Here are some of the best books to read in 2024 (so far). You’re welcome!

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AdmissionSight

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Achieving 1500 on the SAT is a milestone that many students aim for, but is 1500 really a good SAT score? Scoring 1500 places you in a highly competitive bracket, opening doors to top universities nationwide. However, as you set your college goals, it’s important to consider whether aiming even higher is necessary or if 1500 positions you well for success.

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Top Tier Admissions

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Internships have exploded in popularity as job “try-outs,” allowing students to test out potential careers before going all-in on law school, for example, or the strenuous recruitment process for management consulting. But what if you could get paid to try out a career field and engage in higher-level projects to gain more valuable experience? This is the promise of co-op programs at universities like Northeastern , Drexel , and Georgia Tech , schools that have seen their application numbers ris

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Great College Advice

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

One of the most-asked questions we receive from families is some version of this: “What do colleges look for these days in a student?” Although anecdotes can help, sometimes the data can tell the story for you. Grades and Course Rigor Matter the Most in College Admissions The most recent National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) State of College Admission Report updated its four-year college members’ survey of the Factors in the Admission Decision.

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road2college

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Dear Roadie, Given the political climate, I’m concerned that my daughter wants to attend college in a ruby-red state. It’s. The post Dear Roadie: My Daughter is Considering a ‘Red State’ College. Should I Be Worried? appeared first on Road2College.

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The Enrollment Marketer

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

I’m not here to tell you that you need a CMS, CRM, email automation, and a data analytics tool. These are part of your school’s larger marketing tech stack and are the very basic components to both higher education marketing and data-backed decisions. We could write an entire blog post dedicated to the best CMSs or CRMs for higher ed (and we have — comparing one enrollment marketing platform to another), but instead, my goal is to suggest supplemental tools for your digital marketing toolkit.

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Grown & Flown

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

My firstborn wanted to go far away for college. She didn’t come home often during her four years on the opposite side of the country. Once she left, I quickly became one of “those moms” who listened with envy as friends with teens much closer to home talked about surprise visits for the weekend or how’d they’d hop in the car on a whim to drive an hour to meet their child for a meal.

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College Essay Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

While the internet makes it seem like the world is at our fingertips, sometimes you just can’t replace actually experiencing something first hand. Looking at pictures of the ocean isn’t the same as dipping your toes in it. Watching a video about the symphony isn’t the same as seeing and hearing an orchestra up close as they produce a beautiful piece of music.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

MAY 27, 2024

Last year I wrote this blog criticizing February , and man did the Feb fans have some words. Wow. Well, now I’m taking the other side of that coin to say that I’m a big fan of May. First, the weather. Now, maybe you live somewhere I’m not thinking of or unfamiliar with and you have some terrible May situation, but in the South, the pollen is gone, the flowers are out, the bugs and humidity haven’t arrived, and most mornings and evenings are cool.

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PrepScholar

AUGUST 27, 2024

The SAT Reading and Writing section presents you with a challenge. Now that the digital SAT has been rolled out , this section contains over 50 passages you'll need to read and answer questions on! The passages will come from a wide variety of sources and test you on everything from critical reading to grammar. How can you attack these passages to get a high SAT Reading and Writing score?

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The Department of Education over the last six months negotiated a student debt forgiveness plan for “borrowers experiencing hardship.” The plan would offer debt relief to borrowers with an 80% chance or higher to default on their loans soon. It also promises to create an application process for ongoing debt forgiveness. Higher education stakeholders agreed to greenlight the proposal despite some points of disagreement.

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College Transitions

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Best-of-all-time lists are always subjective, but out of the 50 best nonfiction books below, there’s bound to be one or two that you like. (If you’re looking for a memoir, check out this list.

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UGA Undergraduate Admissions Q & A

MARCH 15, 2024

We plan to make the final wave of freshman decisions available today, March 15th, at 4 PM ET. For those of you who have been admitted to UGA, here is a post for you and a chance to comment. Please remember that this is not a blog where you should post statistics or throw fellow students under the bus. These types of comments will be deleted. Congratulations to all of the freshman who were admitted and we look forward to you becoming part of the Bulldog Nation.

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Top Tier Admissions

AUGUST 16, 2024

Duke University , located in Durham, North Carolina, is consistently ranked a top-ten school associated with the Ivy-plus colleges and Southern Ivies. Duke had an overall acceptance rate of 5.1% for the Class of 2028. Duke’s one required supplemental essay this year asks (in their own words), “Why Us?” However, Duke also offers five additional optional supplemental prompts, of which students can respond to a maximum of two.

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Great College Advice

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

How will you write your Common App essay about a belief or idea? The Common Application prompts give you a chance to answer an interesting question, tell an important or revealing anecdote, and reflect on the ways in which the anecdote reveals something about your character, your beliefs, your values, or your personal priorities. Prompt #3, especially, focuses on the beliefs that are fundamental to who you are.

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#LetsBFRANK: The College Admissions Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Franklin Cummings Tech announced today a $2 million donation from Liberty Mutual Insurance. Delivered over five years to boost access to clean tech careers in environmental justice communities, this is one of Liberty Mutual’s largest philanthropic contributions and builds on the foundation’s long-time partnership with Franklin Cummings Tech. Liberty CleanTech Lab The funds will support the capital campaign of Boston’s only independent technical college as it moves forward with plans to build a n

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enrollmentFUEL

JANUARY 25, 2024

To rephrase Mark Twain, the reports of email's death have been greatly exaggerated—for now. It remains one of the most widely used marketing communication tools , especially when we talk about list marketing, which, in higher education, includes both the search strategy many of us employ to build up the top of the enrollment funnel, and any communication flows going to inquiries, applicants, or accepted students.

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Grown & Flown

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Cougar. Hag. Empty-nester. Blue hair. Frump. Oldie Locks. Biddy. Old Lady. Bag. Old Gal. Menopausal Mama (OK, I made that one up). The names we use to describe women over 50 are not terrifically uplifting. We’re all aware of the perils of aging. But there are some awesome things about being my age, which happens to be 55. What I love about being over 50.

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College Wise

JULY 22, 2024

On July 15th, the ACT announced significant changes to the ACT exam, including shorter sections, fewer questions, and an optional science section. Find out everything you need to know and how these changes impact you.

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Georgia Tech Admissions Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

A few weeks ago, a friend told me about the concept of “Value Capture” – a phrase coined by Dr. Thi Nguyen, a philosophy professor at the University of Utah. Essentially, value capture occurs when a metric becomes the motivation for a certain behavior (Abstract and paper here.) For example, instead of posting pictures on social media to simply share with family and friends, we become focused on and consumed by the number of likes or impressions we receive.

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PrepScholar

AUGUST 12, 2024

This just in: changes to ACT testing are coming! The CEO of the ACT announced in July 2024 that students can expect major ACT changes beginning in spring 2025. So, what exactly will the biggest ACT test changes be? In this article, we’ll share everything we already know about the ACT exam changes, including: When the upcoming changes in ACT testing will go into effect How the test will be shortened, including adjustments to reading passages Which sections are becoming optional How experimental q

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BestColleges

AUGUST 23, 2024

The Vote HBCU "Say It Louder" tour utilizes the student leadership at each historically Black college and university (HBCU) to guest-star on panels and join local events. Vote HBCU is a national program that equips HBCU student leaders with the tools to organize voter activism on campus and register students to vote. Some of the most common barriers to HBCU students voting are voter ID requirements and disinformation.

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