For many students, an important part of college can be joining your college’s team to play your favorite sport. Sports permeate campus culture – from friendly intramurals to deep-seated collegiate rivalries. (Harvard or Yale? Stanford or Cal?) But in 2020 – when even professional NBA and NFL teams had to cancel their games (and stop inviting spectators!) because of the coronavirus -- many wonder how this has dribbled over – no pun intended – into the college sports field.
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Social media is integrated into nearly every high school student’s everyday life, and the notion of a college admission’s board taking a peek at your social media can be a bit intimidating. After all, there's so much about you on your social media that colleges won't find on your polished college application.
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If you’re looking at applying to college, you’ve probably heard the term “demonstrated interest” come up. But what does this really mean? Does it mean that a college wants you to attend every event that they hold and establish a conversation with your local admissions representative at the rate of three emails per day? The answer to this question is a resounding no! But we’ll discuss, a little bit later, how to show demonstrated interest in a positive and helpful way.
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When it comes to volunteering, it’s never a question of if you should volunteer; rather, it’s a question of when and how. Do colleges actually care about volunteering? Yes! And you should too—not just because colleges care, but because you’re giving back to the community. Only good things come from volunteering, whether that's social good, the betterment of other people's lives, or personal fulfillment, so colleges hold applicants' volunteering efforts in high esteem.
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For high school students with a practical passion in business and finance, it can be difficult to gain experience and develop skills in a learning environment before taking the daunting leap into a startup, an internship, or even an actual job. Classroom settings rarely offer you this chance either, often sticking to conceptual learning, and even hands-on assignments lack a certain real-world application that working for an actual business would offer. Where, then, can students interested in business go to polish their skills and feel what it’s like to present project ideas or run financial simulations? The solution: business competitions.
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When you’re a high school senior looking at college, it seems like there are a thousand factors to consider. Well, okay, a thousand and one. And the one that is the most critical for a lot of people is whether or not your family can actually afford to pay for your dream school.
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We’ve compiled some truths about college rankings that you should know before taking them at face value.
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Majors are not equal—or at least, their numbers aren’t. Most colleges see a greatly uneven size distribution between the numbers of students per major, and so these colleges are forced to reject more applicants who declare majors that are particularly competitive at their respective institutions, on account of limited major department resources and space. This trend has bred the common idea that students can more easily get into colleges if they declare less competitive majors, those with lower demand—but the truth is not quite that simple.
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Many ninth grade students are already a few months into their high school career. Now that students have had time to feel out the differences that a high school environment brings—maybe they’re probing different social spheres, or navigating the larger class sizes and workload—it’s time to look forward and consider the first steps in your student’s college-focused four year plan.
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Students with a passion in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) work tirelessly in classes, but it can be difficult for STEM students to take their knowledge beyond the classroom to show colleges their proficiency in ways other than a letter grade.
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