Sat.Feb 01, 2020 - Fri.Feb 07, 2020

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College Planning for Juniors

ACM College Consulting

If you have not already begun, it is time to get started! Juniors who begin planning for college now will give themselves a few extra months to prepare quality applications and find better fit schools. Unfortunately, many students delay planning until the summer before senior year and end up squeezing months of work into just a few weeks before they submit their applications which are often sub-par.

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A Surprising Number of Colleges Accept Applications After January 15

The Ivy Dean

You might be surprised to know that the college application period for senior year is not over. Although the application deadline for most colleges and universities is either January 1 or January 15, this is not true across the board. Several colleges accept applications after this date, meaning that students can further expand their options by applying to any of the great colleges with deadlines that fall later in the year.

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Can One Semester of Low Grades Ruin My Chances of Admission to College?

the college spy

It happens. A blip on the transcript. A semester or year of low grades. The reasons are endless: divorce, sickness, mental illness, homelessness, death of a parent or sibling, an abusive relationship, caretaking responsibilities, addiction, etc. And then the student pulls through, finds her strength and resilience and her grades go back up. But, her GPA has suffered.