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Yale is making some changes to the prompt for its freshman application. While high school students applying to the elite US university were previously given free rein on its secondary essay requirement (“Reflect on something you would like us to know about you”), applicants this year will face a set of newly specific questions.
At Biltmore Tutoring, we do lots of private tutoring and test prep. However, we have also had great success with our small group test prep classes (in fact, some of our largest score increases came from class students, and especially ones who combined a class with a few private lessons to tune up with material that they needed a little one-on-one help with). Biltmore Tutoring’s SAT and ACT classes are affordable, effective, and allow students to prepare for their exams over a span of five Saturdays or five Sundays. All books, practice materials, access to all of our incredibly effective test prep strategies, master’s degree instruction, the use of our student response system, and two free practice tests are included!
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Colleges typically consider grades in tough courses to be the most important criteria that they will use in the admissions process. Bear in mind, however, that individual colleges vary in the weight they give other factors.
What are the other top factors that colleges consider?
Choosing a state university over a private college could become more appealing, for many students, if Hillary Clinton becomes president.
Low- and middle-income students would pay nothing for tuition at in-state public colleges under a new part of her free college tuition plan. Any student whose family earns $85,000 or less would be eligible at first. The income level would go up by $10,000 each year until 2021, when anyone whose family makes $125,000 a year or less would go tuition-free.
What could this mean for your student? There is the possibility of free tuition. There is also the likelihood of fierce competition for spots at both public and private universities.
What makes some high school and college students successful, while others are not as successful?
Sometimes it’s a question of intelligence or insight, and sometimes it’s sheer good luck. But a lot of the time it’s the result of good habits: things you do on a regular basis that set you aside from the hordes of other, more scattered, students. In this article, we present the following fifteen habits of top-notch students. You’ll find that these people:
Good students not only know when the tests and papers fall in the semester, but they have a good sense of what work needs to be done each week as the semester progresses. Nice and balanced: everything in gear and no worries come exam time. They keep the stress level down because they’re very good at time management.