UVA Now Offering Free Tuition To In-State Students Whose Families’ Total Income Does Not Exceed $80,000 Annually Before Tax
Attention all college-bound high school students, This is a public service announcement: Christmas appears to have come early for all students (and their parents) who are considering the University of Virginia as a potential college destination. As per John...
December Checklist for College-Bound Seniors
Dear College-Bound Seniors, By this point, many of you have already submitted your college applications, meeting the Early Decision and Early Action deadlines of November 1st and November 15th. Other schools, still, will have Early application deadlines of...
Free up your Saturday | School-Day Standardized Testing
Free up your Saturday High school is busy... Very few people really enjoy getting up early on Saturday mornings. This is especially true if you are in high school - you're getting up early every day to get to school. Perhaps you are also working a job in the...
Details, Dates and Deadlines for Institutional Scholarships at Virginia Colleges and Universities
To my college-bound seniors: This is an exciting and yet stressful time in a young person’s life. High school seniors and their parents/guardians, teachers, and counselors are tasked with admissions applications, financial aid applications like the...
Clayborne Refugee Fund Student Engaging the World
Clayborne Refugee Fund Student Engaging the World If you spend any time with Kibiriti Majuto, it won’t take long to catch his fervor and passion for life. Kibiriti speaks with excitement about his academic studies, he greets friends and acquaintances with a...
We Want You to Know that You Belong
We Want You to Know that You Belong In his 2015 article, James T. Minor, an educator and administrator at California State University, gave five pieces of advice and encouragement to first-generation college students and families. Minor properly acknowledges how...
Juggling High School and Work
Work, Work, Work, Work, Work - Making High School and Work Work Are you a worker? Probably so! You do homework. You try to get your brain to work early in the morning. And, many of you are actually going to work after you finish working all day at school! It can...
Should I take the ACT or SAT?
Do I Take the ACT or SAT? So here you are, proactively researching how to improve your SAT scores. Well done! You have taken an important first step along the path to college admission. But the journey is long and fraught with uncertainty, and the first fork in...
Does the test optional movement mean the end of test prep?
More schools are going “test-optional.” Does this spell the end for test prep? Emphatically, NO! Yes, the list of schools no longer requiring standardized test scores for admission has now reached 950 institutions, 275 of them highly ranked according to U.S. News...
ACT/SAT Registration and Score Submission Strategy
ACT/SAT Registration and Score Submission Strategy So you are planning to take the SAT; maybe you are planning to take the ACT. Are you unsure how to register? Are you worried that you won’t do as well as hoped? Are you confused about how schools will see your...