Should The Sat/ Act Be The Main Means Of College Admission?
November 11, 2009 by Rob
Filed under College Admissions
Should colleges, both junior and private, rely on someone’s SAT or ACT score as the main and in some cases, only, means of letting that person go to their college?
THE DILEMMA OF COLLEGE ADMISSIONS AND FINANCIAL AID PROCESS IN TODAYâ??S ECONOMY
August 29, 2009 by Rob
Filed under College Admissions
   How To Choose Colleges in Todayâ??s Economy: The admissions and financial aid process from the perspective of a retired Guidance Counselor and a parent of four children. I spent 34 years in education with the last 22 years as a high school guidance counselor. I specialized in admissions and financial aid as two of [...]
ISABGOL or Plantago ovata
Sanskrit : Sat isabgola, Isabgola English : Spaghula seed (husk) Latin name : Plantago ovata Family : Plantaginaceae Ayurvedic Pharmacodynamic properties Rasa : Madhur (sweet) Guna : Guru (heavy), Snigdha (oily), Pichchila (sticky) Virya : Shita (cold) Vipaka : Madhur (sweet) Doshakarma : Vata-pittashamak (alleviate V and P Dosha) Useful parts : Seed and seedcoat Medicinal [...]
How to Prepare for College While in High School
How to Prepare for College While In High School Many different factors go into the reasons students are accepted in different schools. Most of these factors have a lot to do with the student’s GPA in high school, extracurricular activities such as honors societies and such, as well as what classes the student had been [...]
Requirements For A College Degree
Today, more than ever, you need a college degree to be successful. Twenty-five years ago, a high school diploma was enough to earn enough to live a middle-class lifestyle with a decent job. Now, in order to do as well as you could then, you need an expensive and time-consuming college degree. College graduates earn [...]
How to Select a Good Gmat Prep Course Online
GMAT or Graduate Management Admission Test is a prerequisite for admission to any prestigious business school. With increasing number of applications received by top business schools, the only way to ensure admission is to secure a high GMAT score. Therefore, whether you are taking the GMAT test for the first time or trying to [...]
Life after the gaokao
You may have noticed two otherwise inconspicuous high school students recently featured on the front page of the Xin Jing Bao (The Beijing News), and if not, you probably noticed that something strange was going on earlier this month. In both instances, the gaokao (??) is to blame.The gaokao, or the National Higher Education Entrance [...]
An Essential Factor For Studying Abroad â?? Standardized Tests
Standardized test is an essential tool required to evaluate the studentâ??s proficiency in English, which is crucial to study abroad. It is the test administered and scored in a consistent manner. The tests are designed in such a way that the “questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent” and are “administered and [...]
Getting Into College Without the Sat
We all know teenagers who don’t test well.There are all sorts of legitimate reasons why some students, even bright ones, can’t earn decent numbers on the dreaded SAT test. It used to be that parents and students could rail all they wanted against the test, but it wouldn’t matter. Colleges and universities wanted to know [...]
College Entrance Examinations – The PSAT What?
Starting in high school the counselors, teachers and parents all start using acronyms. Now life is difficult enough and now everyone is throwing all these initials around expecting you to not only know what they mean, but to score well on them. Well never, fear, there are many college bound students in the same boat [...]