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The final deadline looms. Make sure the college applications are complete. Before hitting “send”, take our “Dotting the I’s and Crossing the T’s” Mini-Course. This is from our full-length “Talking College Search” course and is for anyone who has a day remaining but still wants to make sure the process is good and done. Also includes the 45-minute Bonus Lesson, “Acceptance & Rejection”, which lays out the options and next steps in plain talk after the letters come in.
Have you dreamt yet that your prospective schools received erroneous SAT scores — very low scores!? And that the final essays were full of typos that kept going back to wrong even after being corrected? And the applications wouldn’t go through, one minute before the deadline? First college anxiety dream…
Do you parents sometimes feel your child is considering schools far away enough so just so that you can’t start a PTA at them? There are better ways to select schools that are good fits; take the “Talking College Search” course at https://goodapples.teachable.com
All high seniors and parents have gotten their FAFSA PIN numbers and have drafted their Financial Aid forms, right? HS seniors should try to send their forms out ASAP, using parents’ tax forms from usually a year before last year. With your parents’ permission, FAFSA, being a government service (the website ends in “. gov”), can connect to the IRS and download the data from your 1040. This makes the form even easier to complete. Some people may need to manually type in the numbers themselves; usually they have complicated investments and businesses. They might want to ask a financial advisor for some advice as to what is supposed to be added into the form. But bottom line: the earlier you file, the earlier you get in the line for financial aid.
Get an overview of the financial aid process with our “Just the Money, Honey” course! Learn about pitfalls and how to ask the right questions of your advisors: https://goodapples.teachable.com/p/justhemoneyhoney
A top college can receive way more than 22,000 applications for 3,000 seats! Or even waaaay more! How can the school get through that in only a few months? Instead of one person reading an entire application, a committee can split parts of a application: one person reads the application, another the teacher recommendations, another looks over the grades and test scores, all supervised by someone familiar with the region in which an applicant lives, and hopefully familiar with that high school. It’s called “Committee-Based Evaluation”. Yeah, one person doesn’t get to entirely know a student, but they express support or defend that student for the part that they read.
Your dream college is not the one that puts you in debt for decades. It’s not be the school that doesn’t take applicants with your stats — but how do you know? You can start your college admissions journey on the right foot with our very affordable “Talking College Search” online web course! On-demand, unlimited access to 6 Topic Sections, 18 Lessons, 3 Hours and 1 Bonus Workbook covering everything from application to how to interpret acceptance and aid offers, with real-life experiences as examples — all for less than the price of one college application fee (didn’t know there were application fees? You really need to start with this course!).
You can do it yourself, but IT’S HARDER TO DO WITHOUT THIS COURSE! These lessons will point you in the right direction:
You know yourself. Don’t let it be a guessing game; so much is at stake. Avoid the tricks and the embarrassing games that tv star moms play to get their children into colleges (where they’re not qualified). Avoid getting stuck with a college that your guidance counselor (who barely knows you) thinks you should go but isn’t a good match for who you are and what you want.
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The reason many students don’t finish and earn a degree is because they run out of money. Financial aid doesn’t cover all their expenses and many families are unaware of all the expenses beyond tuition and the dorm. Strategize and plan your scholarship applications so that you find some to apply to each year.
Time to focus on scholarships that are looking to help Hispanic Students:
Check the deadlines and put them on your calendar. Don’t wait until last minute to apply!
For some scholarships, many will apply, and few will win one. Regardless, it could be you; you’ve go to be in it to win it! Good luck!
Avoid disappointment. Avoid mistakes. Avoid too much debt. The average American guidance counselor has 400 students, so there’s no way they can help each high school senior individually. Who can afford expensive college advisors like celebrities? Should they?
Instead, for less than the cost of one college application fee, take our “Talking College Search” online course, which covers the entire college search journey, from compiling the final list to how to tell which acceptance is the best fit for you. 6 Aspects, 18 Lessons, 3 Hours and 1 Bonus Workbook all for less than the price of one application fee. Enroll here: https://goodapples.teachable.com
The Gates Scholarship was founded by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill Gates founded the Microsoft Corporation. 300 Scholars are chosen each year and will receive funding for the full cost of attendance that is not already covered by other financial aid and the expected family contribution (EFC). Cost of attendance includes tuition, fees, room, board, books, and transportation, and may include other personal costs. Basically that means the scholarship should be the amount after Full Cost of Attendance minus Pell Grants, minus college grants, minus EFC. That is the grey area that would require families to take out loans to meet the difference!
Deadline is the first week of September — work fast! Click Here: https://www.thegatesscholarship.org/about-gates
According to the website, to apply, students must be:
This is a competitive scholarship, so according to the website, the selection committee is looking for:
Click Here: https://www.thegatesscholarship.org/about-gates
You can’t select colleges to apply to on a whim. You can get help right here!”Talking College Search” online course: 6 Topic Sections, 18 Lessons, 3 Hours. From putting together a list to interpreting the financial aid letter, this will help find the best fits —all for less than the price of one application fee.
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Thousands of students apply to colleges each year and those who apply to schools that their relatives attended in the past get extra points towards their application in admissions. That’s called being a legacy admit.
Inside Higher Ed conducted a survey of admissions directors in 2018 and found that 42% of private institutions and 6% of public institutions said they consider legacy status as a factor when selecting applicants for their freshman class. But not every school does this; some of the largest public universities do not give points for having relatives who are alumni, and other colleges are beginning to drop it. As schools reduce the number of students admitted due to legacy, it increases the admissions chances for students who don’t have connections, and whose parents or grandparents didn’t attend college — also known as “first generation college students”.
Johns Hopkins University, University of California and California State University recently announced that they will not consider legacy admissions anymore. And in May 2021, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed a bill to prohibit the use of legacy as admissions criteria for all of its public colleges and universities.
Colleges make some sacrifice when they don’t admit as many legacies: there will be less freshmen who are familiar with the traditions and culture of the school; less students with built-in spirit; less donations by doubly-grateful alumni. A school that is low on funding might want rely more on legacies.
Since historically, college alumni in the past were fairly wealthy and not diverse, legacies admitted also tend to be from more wealthy families and not as diverse as the pool of students without connections who apply nowadays. Some colleges like Princeton University have accepted four times as many legacies to regular applicants.
Just for financial reasons, to end legacy preference is a major event in college admissions.
