College Mentors

If you are in the Los Angeles area, please join me for a free workshop on November 2nd at the Fairview Library in Santa Monica at 7pm.  We'll be reviewing the UC, Common Application, and CSU Applications.  We'll also talk about what makes a great personal statement! Join my Facebook page (just click on College Mentors link in the lower right column on this page) and keep abreast of upcoming events!

Tomorrow, the National Association of College Admissions Counselors (NACAC) is holding their annual Performing and Visual Arts College Fair at UCLA. Here's a link to the details: http://www.nacacnet.org/EventsTraining/CollegeFairs/pva/Pages/09PLA.aspx

Score Choice from College Board, the much anticipated ability to cherry pick your best scores to be sent to Colleges rather than having to send all scores, is turning out to be a hotbed of confusion. The two main points of confusion pertain to differing college requirements and how to handle the Common Application. Here are a few points that may help you in the process: What is Score Choice? Before score choice, all SAT results would be sent to all of the colleges to which you apply. Most colleges have a policy of taking the highest scores (some even take the highest section from among them all, so if you got a 600 Math and 650 CR in one sitting and a 650 Math and 580 CR in another, they'd take the 650 Math and 650 CR). Score Choice instituted the ability to pick and choose WHICH sittings of the test you send to colleges to which you apply. However, you must send the entire sitting, so Score Choice won't necessarily hide a poor performance on a particular section of the test...