The Common Application goes live August 1. Before then, high school students across the country are working on their essays and getting ahead on their college applications. A number of these students are getting professional help from companies like International College Counselors. At ICC, we encourage students to be themselves. We work with students to pinpoint…
Whether you’ve gone through the college admissions process before with older children or are navigating this complexity for the first time, it’s important to know that every year some things change. Here are some recent changes: University of Florida is now accepting the Common Application; last year it was only accepting the Coalition App. UF anticipates…
Sign up for the SAT early, especially if you plan to take the August test. Signing up for standardized tests isn’t always as simple as choosing a date, reserving a spot, and taking the exam. Students in the northeast have reported not being able to find an SAT or ACT testing center within…
Thousands of students are graduating from college this month – proof that the college admissions process has a satisfying ending. At their graduation ceremonies, business leaders, journalists, politicians, and celebrities took to the stage as commencement graduation speakers. Here are some of, what we consider, the best. Oprah Winfrey, Colorado College Global media leader Oprah Winfrey told students…
The College Board (the nonprofit company that administers the SAT) announced it will provide an Environmental Context Dashboard (ECD) or what the media has labeled an “adversity score” to every SAT score report it sends to colleges in 2020. The ECD index will place students’ SAT scores in the context of their socioeconomic advantages or disadvantages. Factors that go…