Many students fail to visit their career center until their last semester senior year. Find out how helpful and important visiting the career center can be.
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Posted: 7/12/10
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There are a few things we think you should know before you start college.
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Posted: 6/9/10
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There's no easy way to deal with this problem, because your heart is going to be torn between wanting to support your child and trying to put some sense into his or her head.
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Posted: 10/7/09
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Your first year of college—like your first car, or your first kiss—is something you’ll remember for the rest of your life. It’ll also be over before you know it. Here’s what you’ll need to know to make the most of your classes, your social life and everything in between over the course of your freshman year.
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Posted: 9/19/09
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We asked undergrads across the country who've seen it all to let us in on their worst—and best—freshman year decisions. Read on and learn from their rookie mistakes—unless you don't mind being known as "that freshman."
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Posted: 7/29/09
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By doing the interview, at a minimum you show just how enthusiastic you are and in the best case, you make a phenomenal impression on someone at the school, job or scholarship. If you connect with the right person, they can really become your advocate.
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Posted: 6/26/09
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For some schools, the college interviews have been renamed, “informational meetings”. Those schools are recognizing the reality that in any interview, especially the college one, is a compatibility session. Does each of you have all the information necessary for both of you to make sure it is a good fit? Most selective schools are assembling classes, not just those who score 2400 on the SAT. Taking the effort to pursue an optional interview provides the school with demonstrated interest, a factor it its selection process in this highly competitive environment.
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Posted: 6/26/09
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What if you could turn back time and relive your college years knowing what each day would bring? Our graduating seniors are seasoned pros: following is their best advice on how to make the transition from your parents’ house to your first weeks on campus a little smoother.
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Posted: 5/6/09
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Upperclassmen can’t stand the blundering frosh descending on the campus in September, maps in hand, asking “Is this the way to the psychology building?” and “Know of any good parties tonight?” If you don’t want to look like a clueless freshman, keep these common mistakes in mind and you’ll be on your way to a smooth transition. And they said getting in was the hard part…
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Posted: 2/10/09
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Don’t wait ‘til after you get in—here’s what college students wish they’d known before applying.
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Posted: 12/10/08
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