A professional college advisor answers the questions: How many extracurricular activities do I need on my college applications? Is there such a thing as too many? Author: Lora Block,a certified educational planner at College Advisory Services. August 10, 2016.
The International Insight Research Group in partnership with the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO) conducted a survey in 2018 of more than 4,000 students, focusing on the acceptance rate at US colleges for IB students. This document draws on those survey results to compare the general population acceptance rate to the IB Diploma student acceptance rate at the top 25 US universities. Presented by Crimson Education.
This resource covers a variety of topics for finding the right career, including graduate school planning, job searching, and career maintenance across all subjects and occupations. The collection includes information from both general career guides and highly specialized journals, with more than eight million articles published between 1980 and the present.
This article gives tips from admissions staffers from across the United States on what NOT to do when applying to college. Authors: Courtney Rubin and Cole Claybourn; July 26, 2023.
This article from the August 2016 issue of Consumer Reports magazine gives questions that students, and their parents, should discuss as part of the process of their college-planning process. The questions range from discussing a student's goals ("What does your student want to get out of college?") to the details of finances ("How much debt can one student manage?") among other topics. Author: Donna Rosato.
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