12 Ways to Have a Meaningful Summer
1.) Get Involved in your Community Volunteer in-person or online through VolunteerMatch Join a movement on DoSomething.org Intern at the Boys and Girls of the Peninsula Hiller Aviation Museum Flight…
1.) Get Involved in your Community Volunteer in-person or online through VolunteerMatch Join a movement on DoSomething.org Intern at the Boys and Girls of the Peninsula Hiller Aviation Museum Flight…
5 things to do BEFORE you visit Research the school and major optionsCheck to see if the school is doing an on-campus interviewContact coaches, departments, professors or current students to…
Some colleges offer optional interviews to their prospective first-year students. Some interviews can be evaluative while others are just another way for the college to learn more about you and…
In the world of the Common Application, demonstrating interest is showing colleges that you are truly interested in their institution and not just checking a box. Why do colleges care? Colleges are very interested in yield, or the number of students who are admitted that choose to enroll. Yield is important because it has become a proxy for popularity—the higher the yield, the more popular the school. Yield is also an important number in the US News and World Report rankings. If colleges want to move up the ranks, increasing yield numbers is very important. In general, the highly selective colleges (think Stanford and the Ivies) do not need to measure if students are interested. They are always going to have high yield numbers. However, many other private and public institutions use demonstrated interest as a factor in admissions.
For our College Calm students, check each school on your list to determine if they care about demonstrated interest. The scale is: VERY IMPORTANT, IMPORTANT, CONSIDERED, NOT CONSIDERED. You can find this on your College Kickstart report from your family meeting or in Counselmore in the grid version. If demonstrated interest is considered, important or very important, you should do a few of the following things, so each school knows you are genuinely interested.
Steps to Completing your UC Application: Materials You Need: You will need a copy of your transcript, test scores (AP/IB), social security number (optional), CA statewide Student ID (for public…
To Report or Not to Report? That is the question. As you prepare to send in your college applications, a major consideration is whether to report your test scores -…
We know it seems early to think about summer, but now is the time to get excited about ways you can explore your interests and apply to programs. Many applications…
If you are thinking you want a summer job, you need to start looking now. You will want to be in process in March/April if you plan to start in…
Steps to Completing your UC Application: Materials You Need: You will need a copy of your transcript, test scores (AP/IB), social security number (optional), CA statewide Student ID (for public…