It has been quite a year. You have truly demonstrated Herculean strength in balancing your life of standardized tests, athletic events, activities, jobs, family, and friends. Now, of course, you are facing a health crisis challenge that is redefining the meaning of packing up and heading off to college. It means that over the summer […]
Originally published November 7, 2019 Congratulations on making it through the PSAT! I’m hoping you feel really good about it – and not just because it’s over! If you don’t, however, you certainly don’t need to stress, because colleges will never see those scores. But good, bad, or otherwise, you’ll be waiting until December for […]
Most high schools produce a regular student newspaper. They can come out monthly, quarterly, or once a semester. At some schools, it’s an after-school activity, while at others, newspaper can be taken as an elective. If you have deep, esoteric interests, working with other students can help you connect your ideas to what your peers […]
California dreaming! That was Elena during her last years of high school as she contemplated where she wanted to go to college. She loved the idea of California – and loved what she saw when she visited. She also was favorably impressed by both what she saw on campus at Pitzer and what she heard […]
This column puts the spotlight on Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana and Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina. By most standards, these schools are tiny (Guilford having about 1,700 undergrads and Earlham only 1,050), and yet they have managed to gain big-time reputations – and deservedly so. We feature them together because they have similar […]
Anyone who has taken a practice test at PrepMatters in recent years has likely met Anne Saulkalns, the warm and welcoming lady who administers practice tests under a watchful eye. She has been a stalwart at PrepMatters for some thirteen years but, sadly for us, has decided that it’s time to close this chapter of […]