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Oct 18, 2021
ALERT! FAFSA & CSS Profile Available 10/1
Some colleges require FAFSA and/or CSS Profile completion to get any aid including merit scholarships. Tips for getting the aid you deserve!
Oct 4, 2021
What They Don't Tell You at Financial Aid Night
A recent Hechinger Report news story ranked FAFSA No. 1 among the “most complex and convoluted higher education forms.” Students and families are required to navigate a host of confusing and redundant questions and submit information difficult for many to obtain.
Aug 2, 2021
College Application Supplemental Essay
At many universities that are highly selective, the GPA and test scores of the vast majority of the applicants are so...
Jul 26, 2021
Demonstrated Interest: Getting on the College’s Radar
It’s simple. Students who DEMONSTRATE INTEREST at colleges who track interest get admitted at higher rates.
Colleges want to increase their “yield”. Yield is the number of applicants who actually choose to attend a school where they are accepted. In recent years, while the number of applicants to colleges are up, yield is down.
Jul 12, 2021
Changes Coming to the ACT Reading Section
ACT recently announced an upcoming change in 2021 to the reading portion of the test. I've not yet seen a confirmatio...
Jun 29, 2021
Learning Disability Services Differ in College
High school students on IEP’s and 504’s will undoubtedly do better in some college settings than others. Before even ...
Jun 15, 2021
How Colleges View GPA
When Ohio’s largest high school, William Mason High School (Mason), dropped the honors of Valedictorian and Salutato...
May 29, 2021
Do students need to know the college major before applying?
As students work on college applications eventually
they land on each college's question:
To What Major are You App...
May 25, 2021
High School Student Privacy with ACT, SAT, and Applications
As students complete registration questions for testing and their college applications, they turn to parents with a flurry of questions such as those below. LEAP client, Lysa, reached out to me via a direct message on Facebook saying she was "alarmed by the amount of personal info" the Common App asks.
May 17, 2021
Does your College Application Need a Resume?
Colleges fall into three categories with approximately 1/3 of the 900+ colleges on the Common App allowing for the u...
May 11, 2021
Can Online Tutoring Be As Effective As In-Person?
Of our 59 Google reviews, 22% have been submitted since Covid. All are 5-stars and demonstrate that online works. When a parent has concerns about online tutoring not being effective, Sheri, our Relationship Manager, encourages families to at least try it. LEAP doesn't require contracts of our clients, so they can always quit. Over the last year, only one client who tried online tutoring found that it didn't work well for their child. They cited too much screen time. I get it. Our hope as schools move back to in-person and we have all learned how to Zoom better is too much screen time will no longer be an issue. Why is this our hope? In addition to our data of improvements, our tutors actually prefer Zoom tutoring for 1:1.
Apr 27, 2021
The New ACT Superscoring Report
"ACT will now provide an automatically calculated ACT Superscore to all students who have taken the ACT more than onc...