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8 Things to Know About a Gap Year
Tweet Share on Facebook July 20, 2010 Comment (6)After killing themselves in high school for four years, some students aren't eager to hit the books after graduation. And who can blame them?
The best antidote for academic burnout could be a gap year.
During a gap year, students can ditch the textbooks and pursue interests that just weren't possible when they were overdosing on five AP classes a semester.
If taking a gap year sounds intriguing, here are 8 things families should know:
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Use an Aid Calculator to Get the Real Cost of College
Tweet Share on Facebook July 13, 2010 Comment (21)It's a sad reality that most families with teenagers believe that a school's price tag is priced just like a box of Corn Flakes.
If the price slapped on the Corn Flakes is $3.95, that's what shoppers are going to pay. If a college's published price is $39,000, then that's what families believe they must pay.
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Need Help With Your College Application Essays? Ask the Experts
Tweet Share on Facebook June 29, 2010 Comment (33)Have you begun writing your college essay yet?
I appreciate that writing your college essay in the summer is a major buzz kill, but if you start one now, you'll thank me in the fall when it's application crunchtime.
To inspire you, I've asked some of the very people who must slog through college essays every year to provide tips on writing winning application essays.
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7 Things You Need to Know About Sports Scholarships
Tweet Share on Facebook June 22, 2010 Comment (47)Do you secretly hope that your child will some day win a full-ride athletic scholarship?
Many parents do, including my sister, who believes that her 9-year-old daughter enjoys an excellent shot at a soccer scholarship in 2021. What would prompt my sister, Jane, who is sane in other respects, to think her daughter, Kate, has a chance at an athletic scholarship?
Kate, a third grader, was recently picked to be on a top club soccer team in her San Francisco area neighborhood. Yep, that's all the evidence that my sister has to go on.
There's so much disinformation about athletics scholarships circulating in this country that I decided this week to share seven things that teenagers and parents, including my misinformed sister, need to know about sports scholarships.
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The 10 Best College Websites
Tweet Share on Facebook June 15, 2010 Comment (41)When I typed "college" into Google today, I got 631 million hits. When I searched for "scholarships" and "financial aid," I generated another 51 million and 58 million results.
Nobody has time to slog through all that and a lot of it is probably schlock anyway.
You can, however, dramatically cut down on the time you need to find great colleges at bargain prices if you spend time visiting what I consider to be the 10 best college websites.
In no particular order, here are my choices for the top 10 college websites:
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