Title: West Ranch High School – Free Workshop Location: West Ranch High School Description: Free College Planning Workshop Start Time: 6:45pm Date: 2010-11-17 End Time: 8:15pm

Title: John Burroughs High School Location: John Burroughs High School Start Time: 10:30am Date: 2010-11-14 End Time: 12:00pm

Here a just a few common interview questions and some suggestions on how to answer them. Remember that most of your college interviews will be conducted by alumni or students. Some do not hold much weight while others are comparable to a good letter of reccomendation. What’s your greatest weakness? ?It’s an interview cliche, but it still gets asked. The key is to come up with something that is truthful, yet doesn’t impact your ability to do the job, according to career coach and blogger, Miriam Salpeter. More important than what you identify as a weakness is the part about how you’ve overcome it. Salpeter offers this example: A computer programmer might say, “Speaking in front of very large crowds really scares me, but I’ve…

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Here a just a few common interview questions and some suggestions on how to answer them.  Remember that most of your college interviews will be conducted by alumni or students.  Some do not hold much weight while others are comparable to a good letter of reccomendation. What’s your greatest weakness? ?It’s an interview cliche, but it still gets asked. The key is to come up with something that is truthful, yet doesn’t impact your ability to do the job, according to career coach and blogger, Miriam Salpeter. More important than what you identify as a weakness is the part about how you’ve overcome it. Salpeter offers this example: A computer programmer might say, “Speaking in front of very large crowds really scares me, but I’ve…

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I recently read this article in the LA Times and realized that students and parents need to be on the ball with academic counseling at the Community College level.  No matter if yoe are a full time student or a concurrently enrolled high school student, make sure you are taking the right courses. Community college student Kristen Grand dreams of transferring to Cal State Long Beach so she can earn a bachelor's degree in social work and become an adoption caseworker. But the process of accumulating the right course work and filling all the requirements is overwhelming, the 26-year-old says. "It's kind of stressful," Grand said after class at Long Beach City College one afternoon this week. "Finances, for one, and whether I'm going to…

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Here are the essay prompts for the class of 2010, get started now so you don't get bogged down during the school year. ·         Respond to both prompts, using a maximum of 1,000 words total. ·         You may allocate the word count as you wish. If you choose to respond to one prompt at greater length, we suggest your shorter answer be no less than 250 words. ·         Stay within the word limit as closely as you can. A little over — 1,012 words, for example — is fine. Prompt #1 (freshman applicants) Describe the world you come from — for example, your family, community or school — and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations. Prompt #1 (transfer applicants) What…

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You insure your car, your home, your health, your life. Why not your child's expensive schooling? Like travel insurance or earthquake insurance, tuition refund insurance — a means of getting your money back if a student doesn't make it through the school year due to an emergency — isn't for everyone. The cost could be significant over four years, and it typically covers only withdrawals for medical reasons at the college level. But it can be a safeguard to make sure you don't lose thousands if your child has to drop out of college because of an unanticipated ailment or accident. It's also an option for parents paying for private K-12 schools who may be concerned about their jobs being relocated or cut. Tuition insurance…

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