Browsing Archive: July, 2011

Common App Prepares To Launch College Application Season

Posted by College Connection on Thursday, July 28, 2011, In : College Applications

Will YOU be ready to apply to college?

The Common App Online, the application most utilized by colleges and universities across the nation, will re-launch for the 2011-12 admissions season on August 1, 2011.

How prepared are you to select the colleges to which you will apply, complete that picture perfect application, supplements and all, ace your personal statement and supplemental essays, and put your best foot forward in this increasingly complex and competitive era of ...
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College Planning Guides

Posted by College Connection on Monday, July 18, 2011, In : College Planning

We spend quite a bit of time (so you don't have to) searching for the best -- as in concise, informative, relevant and useful -- college planning guidebooks and websites.

Here are a few that are particularly pertinent, and should be on ever college-bound student's "must read" (or at least, "must browse") list:

The 2012 College Planning Guide (Eleanor Roosevelt High School, New York, NY). If there ever was an "everything you need to know" college guidebook for high school students, this is it! K...
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