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Tips For Evaluating Campus Safety

Do Colleges Look at Extracurricular Activities

Do Colleges Look at Extracurricular Activities?

College Admissions Stress – Strategies to Manage Overwhelm

How to Make a List of Colleges

Pros and Cons of Applying to College as an Undecided Major

Peeling Back the Layers of the Signature College Counseling Team

How to Plan a College Visit

How to Plan a College Visit

How Do I Know What College is Right for Me?

How Do I Know What College is Right for Me?

2024-2024-FAFSA

New FAFSA Changes 2024

Signature College Counseling by the Numbers

A Peek Into Our Future

A Peek Into Our Future

High-School-Courses-Required-for-College

High School Courses Required for College

Does Visiting Colleges Help Admission?

Does Visiting Colleges Help Admission?

Does a 504 Plan Hurt College Admissions?

Does Income Affect College Admissions?

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When Does the Common App Open for 2022

Ideas for Summer Break

Touring Colleges in the Summer

Are College Admissions Becoming More Competitive?

Searching for Colleges by Major

Searching for Colleges by Major

Do Waitlisted Students Get Accepted

Do Waitlisted Students Get Accepted

How-to-Research-Colleges-Checklist

How to Research Colleges – Follow this Checklist

Does Visiting a College Help You Get In?

Does Visiting a College Help You Get In

What If I Don’t Know What I Want to Major In?

What If I Don’t Know What I Want to Major In?

What Do Student Loans Cover?

What to Do as a Junior to Prepare for College

How to Document Volunteer Hours for College

Questions to Ask on a College Visit for Sports

Questions to Ask on a College Visit for Sports

What Size College is Best?

What Size College Is Best For Me

Good Questions to Ask on a College Tour

Sophomore College Checklist

Sophomore College Checklist

How to Find the Best College for Me

College Planning Calendar for Juniors

College Planning Calendar for Juniors

Which Colleges Offer the Best Merit Scholarships

Which Colleges Offer the Best Merit Scholarships

College Visit

College Visit Checklist

How To Remove A College From The Common App?

Prepare for Your College Interview

What Do They Ask at College Interviews? Here Is Some Insight.

College Planning Checklist for High School Students

College Planning Checklist

How-many-colleges-should-I-apply-to

How Many Colleges to Apply To

Five-Career-Planning-Ideas-for-High-School-Students

Five Career Planning Ideas for High School Students

Deadlines-for-college-applications

When is the Deadline for College Applications?

Summer Before Senior Year of High School Checklist

Summer Before Senior Year of High School Checklist

How to Begin College Search

How to Begin College Search

Sophomore Year of High School College Planning

Sophomore Year of High School College Planning

Ducks in a Row for College Planning Process as a High School Junior Blog Post

Junior Year of High School College Planning

High School GPA and College Graduation

High School GPA and College Graduation

Correlation Between High School GPA and College Completion

Admissions Process Timeline Non Athlete

College Planning Timeline

College Athlete Timeline

College Athlete Timeline

Student loan debt

Student Loan Debt: Parents and Students Laissez-Faire Attitude will be Devastating

Which-College-Graduates-Make-the-Most

Which College Graduates Make the Most?

Money trumps all

Money Trumps All

Justifying Mediocrity

Justifying Mediocrity

Is Big Brother Watching

Is Big Brother Watching? You Better Believe It!

Maybe a touch of reality will help alleviate some angst and bring you down to earth.

2019 Hardest Colleges to Get Into

College Interview

Your College Interview – Stand Out in That Crowded Field of Applicants

Hard Work Doesn’t Always Pay Off – A Lesson in Life

Hard Work Doesn’t Always Pay Off – A Lesson in Life

College Admission Interview

College Admission Interview

Embrace What You Have and Understand Those That Don’t

College Interview Season Is Here

College Interview Season

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Rising Seniors Take Note: August 1

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Legacies and College Admissions

Child-Heads-Off-to-College

Health and Legal Matters – When Your Child Heads Off to College

Attention-Rising-Juniors

Attention Rising Juniors: It’s Not a Sprint, it’s a Marathon

Good-College-or-Famous-College

Good College or Famous College

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College Enrollment Falls Short at More Colleges

How-Many-AP-Classes-Should-I-Take-Main-Image

How Many AP Classes Should I Take? What is the Magic Number?

Turning-the-Page-to-The-Next-Chapter

Turning the Page to The Next Chapter

Gaming-the-College-Admissions-Process,-Legally

Gaming the College Admissions Process, Legally

Hard Work Can ALWAYS Be Your Difference

Building Your Career One Academic Step at a Time

Should-I-Report-a-Disciplinary-Incident-on-My-College-Application

Should I Report a Disciplinary Incident on My College Application?

Main-Image-for 10-Questions-to-Ask-a-College-Counselor-BEFORE-You-Hire-Them

10 Questions to Ask a College Counselor BEFORE You Hire Them

Main-Image-for-College-Admissions-Scandal

College Admissions Scandal – Know Who Your College Admissions Counselor Is

Main-Image-for-Feeling-Incompetent-post

Feeling Incompetent?

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The $37,000 Latte – Is it Worth it?

Overused College Admissions Terms

Challenge Yourself and Enjoy the Perks at an Honors College

Elite College Admissions: The Inner Workings

College Interview

College Interview

I Need to Know What I Want to Major In, Don’t I?

Two-Harvard-Problems

The Two “Harvard Problems”

College-Emails

College Email: How’s that in box looking lately?

College-Bills

College Bills Are Rolling In. Now What?

College-Journey

Where are you in your college admissions journey?

Is College for Me

Is College for Me?

College Rankings

College Rankings – Should they drive where you decide to apply and attend college?

Do Well in School, Be Nice

Do Well in School, Be Nice and Find Your Passion

college waiting list

College Waiting List

Admission Acceptance Rates are Declining

Will Attending that Name Brand School Make all the Difference for My Future?

College-Campus-Visit

College Campus Visit: Maximize Each and Every Moment

Get-Organized

Get Organized

College Sports Scholarship

College Sports Scholarships

College Applications

College Applications: Four Minutes to Review

College-Admissions-Requirements

College Admissions Requirements

College-Food

College Food: Do You Want Fries with That?

ACT-or-SAT-Tests

The SATs and ACTs: Make them work for Y-O-U

What-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up

What Do You Want to be When You Grow Up?

college-visits

College Visits: You’re Back. Now What?

College-Bound Juniors

College-Bound Juniors – There’s No Kicking Back this Year

Rising Juniors

Rising Juniors

College Visit Road Trip

College Visit Road Trip

To Do Lists and Why We LOVE them!

Why did Harvard Rescind 10 Offers?

Why did Harvard Rescind 10 Offers?

Radio Interview with Liz Levine of Signature College Counseling

College-Interview-Tips

College Interview Tips- What to do and what not to do

timelines-Signature-College-Counseling

Timelines, and Why We Love Them

You’ve Decided What College to Attend! Congratulations!

Have-You-Seen-Enough-Colleges

Have You Seen Enough Colleges?

Scholarships

Scholarships: Maybe you CAN Afford that College

College-Process

College Process: Do It Together

Let Time Be On Your Side In The College Admissions Process

Let Time Be On Your Side In The College Admissions Process

College Rejection Letter Just Arrived

College Rejection Letter Just Arrived:
What Now?

College Admissions Consultant

College Admissions Process

College Admissions Process

Art MAjor Signature College Consulting

Potential Art Majors, Read On…

Graduating College in Six Years

Graduating College in Six Years

General Comments from Admissions Counselors

General Comments from Admissions Counselors

Long a College Town, Worcester Now Looks the Part

Study Reveals Average Earnings of Former Students of Local Colleges

Study Reveals Average Earnings of Former Students of Local Colleges

Advice College Admissions Officers Give Their Own Kids

Advice College Admissions Officers Give Their Own Kids

College-Admissions-Shut-Out-Poor-Kids

College Admissions Shut Out Poor Kids

College Acceptance

College Acceptance: It’s Almost Christmas and I Haven’t Received Any Acceptances Yet!

Student Debt

Student Debt and Programs to Help Manage Student Debt

College Visit Checklist Orange County NY

Checklist for College Visits

Marketing Strategies for Colleges

College Path

Demonstrated Interest and Your College Acceptance

NCAA College Counseling

College Consultant Orange County NY Helps Students with NCAA Requirements

Summer Before Senior Year of High School Checklist

Summer Before Senior Year of High School Checklist

Writing Speaking College

Writing and Speaking: Blah, blah, blah

NY Times

Among College Students, the Frenzied Competition to Work for No Pay

Mid-Year Grade Reports From Senior Year Can Be Critical

College Benefits

Dear Graduate, Here’s How to Get in the Game

College Application Deadline

College Timeline

College Planning: Top Ten Tips

How to Survive the College Admissions Madness

Little College Guidance: 500 High School Students Per Counselor