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Helping Your Teens Successfully Adjust to Online Learning

Helping Your Teens Successfully Adjust to Online Learning

With many students moving to online learning during the COVID-19 crisis, parents are facing uncharted territory when it comes to supporting their teen’s education at home. Here, International College Counselors’ own extraordinary college advisors Nicole Jobson, a homeschooling expert, and Nancy Rones Zolotorofe, share advice on how you might approach your teen’s new learning environment….

11 Ways to Make the Most of Time Home from School

11 Ways to Make the Most of Time Home from School

While students might be doing school from home, the SAT and ACT have been cancelled until June, sports seasons, creative productions from theatre to chorus, campus visits, and proms and other celebrations are on hold or cancelled, we want to focus on the many positive things you can do during this unprecedented time.   1. Stay…

2020 Best Colleges in the U.S., According to U.S. News and World Report

2020 Best Colleges in the U.S., According to U.S. News and World Report

U.S. News & World Report released its 2020 College Rankings. The Best Colleges rankings includes approximately 1,400 colleges and universities across the U.S. According to the report, for the ninth straight year, the Best National University is Princeton in New Jersey. Harvard comes in second, followed by Columbia, MIT, and Yale, all tied for third. The…

The Numbers Don’t Lie. Numerical Truth Abut College Admissions

The Numbers Don’t Lie. Numerical Truth Abut College Admissions

When it comes to college admissions, there are more myths than the Greeks ever conceived. So how do we know the truths?  The annual “State of College Admission” report collects facts.  Top line good news, your student is not more likely to be struck by lightning than to be admitted to Stanford. According to the National Association for…

New Updates in College Admissions for the 2019-20 School Year

New Updates in College Admissions for the 2019-20 School Year

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…