While putting together a database of college contacts to use to invite colleges to the 2nd Tacoma College & Career Fair, I came across another consortium, the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design. Their web site is http://www.aicad.org/. If you’re interested in finding an art college look at their site. A quick list of members is located on Wikipedia at http://bit.ly/AICAD. By the way, the Tacoma College & Career Fair will be held on October 19th at the University of Puget Sound. Here’s a link with a bit more infomation: http://bit.ly/Tacoma_Fair.
July 1, 2009
Here are some links to information the College Board recently sent out to high school counselors.
Continue Reading Tagged: college entrance exam, SAT, score choice February 5, 2009
This is a letter I sent to Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell and Representative Norm Dicks. I also sent it to The Tacoma News Tribune.
Honorable Senator Murray,
As a high school counselor at Woodrow Wilson High School in Tacoma, and as the parent of a high school senior and an eighth grader, I make it my business to keep up with issues surrounding funding for public school and colleges. I am deeply distressed by the news of the draconian cuts…
Continue Reading Tagged: bailout, education funding November 20, 2008
On September 29, 2008 the Tacoma Public Schools sponsored the first annual Tacoma College & Career Fair hosted by the University of Puget Sound. Everyone was excited by the turnout, both by colleges and by students and families. There were 97 presenters and more than 1200 students and parents. We had originally planned to hold the fair in the UPS Fieldhouse, but had to move it to a large party tent outside Wyatt Hall. The weather was perfect for late September in the Pacific Northwest, clear, dry, about 75 degrees. What a great way to start a new tradition!
Continue Reading Tagged: college fair, Tacoma, Tacoma Public Schools, University of Puget Sound October 21, 2008
An email that the Western Washington University Admissions Office sent to high school counselors recently included a link to a great document called, “Tips for Distinguishing Yourself in the College Application Process.” It includes the same important points high school counselors have been telling students for years, but this time it comes from the college side. Here is a LINK to the document, a copy of which I’ve put on my school page.
May 15, 2008
A couple of times each year there are questions about “The GPA Game” posted to the NACAC list. The game can be used in classes or at parent meetings to demonstrate how GPA, course selections and other factors may influence admission to selective colleges. Unfortunately, I do not know who first came up with this; please let me know if you have that info. This is one version of the game that was posted recently.
Continue Reading May 12, 2008
Here’s a link to the New England Association for College Admissions Counseling’s
Top Ten Facts Students Should Know About The College Admissions Process.
www.neacac.org/docs/top_ten_facts.pdf
I learned about this great document through a NACAC discussion about “double depositing.” When a student submits an admission deposit to more than one college it is called double depositing. It is a problem for a number of reasons.
Continue Reading Tagged: college admission, enrollment deposit May 1, 2008
I’ve added some new NCAA Initial Eligibility forms to my school web page. One is my new NCAA Freshman Eligibility Standards Worksheet, and the other is the NCAA’s Quick Reference Sheet for Initial Eligibility.
Tagged: clearinghouse, initial eligibility, NCAA April 30, 2008
Here is the list posted earlier as a .doc file, and some more consortia (The new ones are not on the .doc).
College Consortia List (.pdf)….(See the full post for the link.)
Continue Reading April 24, 2008
Thanks for all of the great responses. Here is what I have learned:
1. The last 3 pages of the Fiske Guide to Colleges has a list of consortia.
2. There is a Wikipedia page that lists some groupings of colleges: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:University_associations_and_consortia (Isn’t there a Wiki page for everything?)
3. Here is the list generated from the list. It will be posted as a .doc file on my web page (classrooms.tacoma.k12.wa.us/wilson/mburns/index.php) for the next week or so. Look in the Documents tab or the link on the main page. It has also been posted here on my blog, (mrhscounselor.edublogs.org). I have left out any affiliations that are primarily athletic conferences; e.g., Ivy League, Pac 10, Big East, ACC, etc. I have also not included the application groups like Common App and the Universal College App.
Continue Reading April 23, 2008
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