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Tips for Choosing Your College or University

28Apr

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Tips for Choosing Your College or University

Tips for Choosing Your College or UniversityiStockThe wait is finally over. You know your admission results. Congratulations on the acceptances you have earned—you’re on your way to a bright future! Now it’s time to choose, but how? Here are some tips, and of course you can also consult your college or school counselor. 1: Decide about any wait lists and focus on your options. If you are on a wait list for admission, follow any directions to reaffirm interest should you wish to pursue it. Then, set the matter aside and focus on making a choice among the available options. If you decline a wait list offer, you might create an option for someone who would like to have it. You can withdraw your application to any school where you have been waitlisted or admitted and are no longer interested. ...

28Apr

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Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for Minorities

Ultimate Guide to College Grants and Scholarships for MinoritiesScholarships and grants are a valuable tool for students who need funds to pay for college. These programs typically have criteria that consider your background and interests. One major category of gift awards is minority scholarships and grants. Minorities are groups that have historically faced societal disadvantages or challenges due to factors including: ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and disability. Students whose backgrounds qualify them for these awards can access financial assistance that they don’t need to pay back. Like all scholarships, minority scholarships will usually have additional merit or need based criteria for selection. Minority scholarships are offered by colleges, private organizations ...

Why Republican efforts to ban the 1619 Project from classrooms are so misguided

12Apr

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Graduate Admissions

Why Republican efforts to ban the 1619 Project from classrooms are so misguided

Why Republican efforts to ban the 1619 Project from classrooms are so misguided Republican legislators in a handful of states are trying to cut funding to schools and colleges that use the New York Times’ award-winning 1619 Project for classroom lessons — efforts that have served to keep the provocative retelling of American history in the spotlight.The project, published in the newspaper’s magazine in August 2019, is a collection of essays and stories that argue that America was not founded in 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was adopted, but rather in 1619, the year that enslaved Africans were first brought to the land that became the United States.The project annoyed President Donald Trump so much that he appointed a panel — the 1776 Commission — to write a report about the “pa...

Gap Year After 12th- Is It Worth Taking?

12Apr

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College Rankings

Gap Year After 12th- Is It Worth Taking?

Gap Year After 12th- Is It Worth Taking?Acing the 10th class board exams by sweet 16; school farewell before the 18th birthday; graduation by 22; and an enviable job before hitting 25 – sounds perfect, right! Nothing could be better if you wanted it this way. But what if you want to take a break en route – like a gap year after 12th? So, are you in a dilemma to take or not to take a gap year? This is certainly a question that needs the right reasons to qualify as an option. What is a Gap Year? A gap year, also called a sabbatical year, is a semester or a full year break a student takes after completing class 12; and before joining an undergraduate degree. While one year is usual, in some cases the break may extend beyond this period. Do students take a Gap Year? Of course! Lot...

Understanding the Difference Between Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants, and Loans

12Apr

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College Planning

Understanding the Difference Between Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants, and Loans

Understanding the Difference Between Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants, and Loans Are you worried about how you’ll pay for college or looking for ways to lower your family’s out-of-pocket costs? While it’s true that a college education comes with a high price tag, securing financial aid can help you confidently pursue your educational goals. There are many different funding opportunities that can help you finance your college education, including scholarships, grants, fellowships, and loans. You’ll find that these opportunities each have their own requirements. Learn more about different financial aid options for your undergraduate studies, and determine what’s right for your needs. Scholarships Scholarships are one of the best ways to pay for college. You don’t have to repay scholarship...

11Apr

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Graduate Admissions

Nominate Your Students for CollegePoint

Nominate Your Students for CollegePointTwitterFacebookLinkedinemailiStock It’s a persistent problem: Talented lower-income students are less likely than their peers to enroll at selective colleges. And amid the pandemic, many students—particularly those from low- to moderate-income families—face even greater obstacles on the journey to higher ed. For those reasons, Bloomberg Philanthropies’ CollegePoint has expanded its eligibility criteria and is calling on counselors, teachers, and others to nominate talented teens in the class of 2022 who would benefit from its free advising program. Prior to the pandemic, the nonprofit—which provides personal support throughout the college search, admission, and selection process—relied on standardized test scores to help identify students for the prog...

Absurd UVA microaggressions case shows just how badly schools can abuse professionalism codes

11Apr

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Absurd UVA microaggressions case shows just how badly schools can abuse professionalism codes

Absurd UVA microaggressions case shows just how badly schools can abuse professionalism codes The case of a University of Virginia medical student banned from campus for asking skeptical questions at a campus panel on microaggressions illustrates just how seriously graduate school professionalism codes continue to be abused to violate students’ most basic rights. FIRE has seen time and again these codes used to punish an array of speech that would otherwise be fully protected. FIRE has been sounding the alarm for years on the abuse of so-called “professionalism” policies for graduate students in programs focused on medicine, teaching, counseling, dentistry, law — even mortuary science — and more. In contrast with the broad expressive rights students typically receive (either by virtue of t...

Financial Aid Award Letters: 8 Things to Consider

11Apr

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College Planning

Financial Aid Award Letters: 8 Things to Consider

Financial Aid Award Letters: 8 Things to ConsiderTwitterFacebookLinkedinemailiStock You’ve been accepted to college? Perhaps more than one? Congratulations! Now it’s decision time, and determining financial fit is part of the process. Here are eight things to consider as you review your award letters. 1: Expected Family Contribution (EFC) After successfully completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), you will be provided a Student Aid Report (SAR). On the SAR is a number called the Expected Family Contribution (EFC)—and you’ll see that number come into play on each of your financial aid award letters. The EFC determines your eligibility for Federal Student Aid (FSA) and many private scholarship organizations also use it to assist in making award decisions. Your EFC wil...

Schools Are Reopening After a Year Online. Hear From Students.

18Mar

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College Planning

Schools Are Reopening After a Year Online. Hear From Students.

Schools Are Reopening After a Year Online. Hear From Students.CHICAGO — Maisie Robinson was so excited for her first day of kindergarten that she woke up at 2:30 a.m. to make her family breakfast.“Unfortunately, the cereal was kind of soggy by the time we got up,” said her mother, Lindsey Post Robinson.But that hardly dulled Maisie’s enthusiasm. She skipped to school last week in her purple coat, part of a wave of Chicago elementary school students who met their teachers and classmates in person for the first time.A year into the coronavirus pandemic, many American students have been in their classrooms since last fall — frequently off and on, as outbreaks have forced quarantines and closures. But in several large cities, students have started returning to school buildings only in the last...

Should we get rid of standardized testing? – Arlo Kempf

18Mar

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College Planning

Should we get rid of standardized testing? – Arlo Kempf

Should we get rid of standardized testing? - Arlo Kempf Download a free audiobook and support TED-Ed's nonprofit mission: http://www.audible.com/teded Check out Todd Rose's "The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness": https://shop.ed.ted.com/collections/ted-ed-book-recommendations/products/the-end-of-average View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/should-we-get-rid-of-standardized-testing-arlo-kempf Although standardized testing is a particularly hot topic in education right now, this approach to measurement has been in use for two millennia. And while the results of standardized testing can help us understand some things, they can also be misleading if used incorrectly. So what do these tests actually measure? And are they worthwhi...

18Mar

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Financial Aid

How To Ace Your Covid-19 College Essay

How To Ace Your Covid-19 College EssayCollege essays over the past year have reflected the turbulence of these Covid-19 times. In response to Covid-19 and in preparation for 2021-2022 applications, the Common Application, the largest college application platform for prospective undergraduates, has replaced one of its prompts with the following: “Reflect on something that someone has done for you that has made you happy or thankful in a surprising way. How has this gratitude affected or motivated you?” This new prompt is based on scientific research on gratitude and kindness. In addition, the Common App continues to allow students to share additional information that’s Covid-19 related. Common Application President & CEO Jenny Rickard shares in a press release about t...

Many Schools Suffering From Threat-Rigidity Response To COVID

18Mar

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Financial Aid

Many Schools Suffering From Threat-Rigidity Response To COVID

Many Schools Suffering From Threat-Rigidity Response To COVIDIn the wake of COVID-19 shattering the traditional routines and plans of so many schools nationwide, I have lamented that schools haven’t done nearly enough to create more compelling learning experiences for each student. Many schools have instead focused on logistics and operations—which are important given health concerns, but also insufficient. In too many cases, schools have sought to replicate the traditional classroom in a new format—a striking 42% of teachers, for example, reported in a nationwide survey by the Clayton Christensen Institute that they replicate their typical day in a remote format. Or they have offered a subpar learning experience in which students don’t receive the supports they need, as this article by ...

Two 30 Year Veterans Discuss The Education Technology Market

18Mar

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Financial Aid

Two 30 Year Veterans Discuss The Education Technology Market

Two 30 Year Veterans Discuss The Education Technology MarketEducation technology is not new. We may think it is because the technology part confuses our senses of fluidity and speed. That’s why in edtech, as with most things, perspective and context are priceless as they help illuminate where we are and maybe remove some of the shadows around where the market and thinking are likely to go. Pam Nelson and Al Kingsley have been in and around edtech for more than thirty years. Not collectively, each. In edtech, that’s basically forever. They’ve been investors, advisors, administrators, entrepreneurs in for-profits and non-profits, and in and out of C-suites. Kingsley, the current CEO of NetSupport is in the U.K., and a member of Forbes Technology Council. Nelson, in the U.S., now runs her o...

18Mar

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College Search

Searching for scholarships

Searching for scholarships Hear from guidance counselors about how to prioritize scholarships. Then, go to https://www.khanacademy.org/college-admissions for Khan Academy's complete college admissions and financial aid resource!

Cornel West Is Leaving Harvard For Union Theological Seminary

9Mar

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Financial Aid

Cornel West Is Leaving Harvard For Union Theological Seminary

Cornel West Is Leaving Harvard For Union Theological SeminaryCornel West, a public intellectual, prolific writer and non-tenured professor in Harvard’s divinity school, is joining the faculty at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He made the announcement today in an interview with The Boycott Times, which bills itself as “an independent non-profit publication of global dissent.” West, 67, earned a bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Harvard in three years, graduating in 1974. He has a master’s and a Ph.D. from Princeton where he was on the faculty from 1988 to 1994. He taught at Union Theological Seminary early in his career and at Yale where he had a joint appointment in the divinity school and the American studies department. His departure will conclude his second stint on Har...