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Counselors Guide Students by What Colleges Desire in Applicants
Higher education schools should contact high school counselors to help provide them guidance on how they can effectively guide students to their institutions. By educating high school counselors on what is looked for in potential applicants, they can directly guide...
High School Counselors are Specialists
Most, if not all, colleges and universities have enrollment recruiters that are using every possible marketing tactic to meet their enrollment goals. High school counselors play a huge role in these tactics. As new marketing tactics are developed quickly and...
Choosing a College Counselor
Many high school students will decide to hire an independent college counselor to supplement the support they receive from their high school counselor. Always setup an initial discussion with any potential counselor. The following questions will help you decide if a...
How Can Colleges Make an Impact?
High School Counselors can provide insight into what high school students want when they are interacting with college admissions officers. The counselors acknowledged that students are fickle. So, how can colleges make an impact with potential students? 18-year-old...
Increase Your Effectiveness as a High School Counselor
One of the main goals of a dedicated high school counselor is to guide students towards their future. The key to this is having the right information to provide to them. However, this can become rather challenging with how fast college expectations and requirements...
Up-To-Date High School Counselor Email Lists
High school counselors, guidance counselors, career counselors and education counselors maintain an important role in the education system as hired advisors. The average high school student will always seek assistance from their counselor. This can include choosing...
Applying to University: Your High School Counselor’s Role
Your guidance or college counselor is the most important people in your school life. Counselors can help even an average student apply and gain admission to a first-rate college or university. In the US, counselors send their students' high school transcripts to...
Hack the Scholarship Game
Scholarships Can Make Higher Education Attainable Listen very closely, Cappexians: Scholarships can make higher education attainable. I want you to repeat that a couple dozen times to yourself while you scroll through your scholarship matches, while you Google...
College Admissions: New Student Information Forums
New Student Information Forums Universities and colleges throughout US have rightly realized the importance of marketing their services to prospective students. This is the reason why we have seen a tremendous increase in expenditure budgets of HE admission and...
What are High School Counselors Looking for From Higher-Ed Institutions?
As most higher-ed institutions are well aware, High School Counselors are a crucial source to disseminate information to prospective college and university students. These key “influencers” can help their students not only in the college application process, but...
Scholarships Expiring January 2018
Haven’t gotten around to applying for scholarships yet? That’s alright for a number of reasons — the general idea of scholarships doesn’t have a deadline. You can start applying for them just about whenever you feel like it, however, we do recommend starting sooner...
How to Handle Your First College Winter
Unless you’re going to college in California, Florida or another sunny locale, it’s possible your first college winter will be harsher than any you’ve lived through before. Here are some tips on how to survive your first college winter. Layer Up Layering clothes is...
How to Narrow Your List of Colleges
Rather than applying to dozens of colleges, choose 12 at most. Here are some things to keep in mind when narrowing your list of colleges: Acceptance Rate If you’ve had your heart set on a college for years, you should give it your best shot, even if it seems like...
Benefits of Attending a Small College
Small colleges and universities — institutions with 1,000 students or less — offer students a more intimate college experience than large universities. Classes are small and less likely to be held in large lecture halls. In fact, students are more likely to develop...
College Advice: How I Read An Application
At this time of year, college admissions officers like me are bleary-eyed from weeks of reading applications. Many of us are now in committee sessions, determining which applicants will receive offers of admission. At the very few super-selective,...
How to Pick Safety Schools
You should aim for your dream colleges in the college application process, but you can’t be certain of anything. It's important to apply to at least one college where you're guaranteed acceptance. These colleges are known as safety schools and...
Pros and Cons of Rural, Suburban and Urban Campuses
For many students, location is an important factor when choosing a college or university. Depending on your personality and goals, you may be more inclined toward a rural, urban or suburban campus. Here are some of the pros and cons for each category: Rural Colleges...
How to Help Teens Manage the End of the School Year
The school year is coming to a close so that means huge final assignments and lots of fun events for teens. From the ACT and SAT exams to course finals, students are loaded with stressful work. Although they are in the midst of these scholarly activities, there is...
Myths About College Admissions
Waiting to hear back from colleges about your acceptance can be stressful. Basically, your first steps into adult world are being determined by an admissions counselor based on endless factors. Did you take enough AP classes? Did you do enough extracurricular...
How Busy Parents can Help their Children Succeed at School
Having a high school kid is like sitting in the roller coaster car as they climb the incline of freshman year, sophomore year, then begin the crazy roller coaster into junior year and ultimately arrive at the end, the senior year. These next four years fly by really...