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HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS and parents of HS juniors, Strive Virtual College Exploration Week is happening today through Thursday (4/23/2020)! Scroll down on their page to view the session schedule. https://www.strivescan.com/virtual/

"Every year, the National Association for College Admission Counseling releases the names of colleges and universities that have asked to be put on the list of institutions that still have vacancies. Many more colleges have openings, but they don’t want to broadcast this fact." https://www.nacacnet.org/news--publicati//CollegeOpenings/

"It’s time to ask for fewer extracurriculars from college applicants. A deep focus in one or two activities reveals much more about a student than an exhaustive list a mile long and an inch deep. Outside of the classroom, high school should leave room for things like family, faith and fun. "It’s time to look for deep engagement in just a handful of advanced classes. While research shows that taking five AP courses makes a student more likely to complete college, there is no evidence that taking more than five helps you more. "The College Board and admissions professionals must send a clear message that more than three extracurriculars or five AP courses will not improve your application. If you would like to do more, that’s fine, but not to get into college."

https://www.parenttoolkit.com//what-the-college-cheating-s? While we wait for the system to be better regulated and radically transformed, what we have to realize is there are plenty of great schools, Lythcott-Haims says. Widen your blinders, look at all the schools in that book you bought that profiles 200 schools. Relax, you don’t have to fight tooth and nail and cheat and steal to get your kid into a good school. And we have to be more than willingbut excitedto look at more schools than the top 20. Look at the top 200.