Spring College To-Do List for Juniors

From College Data

The second half of junior year is when applying to college starts to get real. Here are some things you can do this semester to make sure you’re ready to apply this fall and minimize stress senior year.

1. Make a First Pass at a College List

Whether you’ve been researching colleges since you were a ninth-grader or you’re at the beginning of your college search, spring of junior year is a good time to research colleges for your college list. Most counselors recommend creating a “balanced list” that includes some schools that are “reaches”, some that are “maybes”, and a few that are “good bets.”

• Reaches are schools where your GPA, test scores and class rank fall at the lower end of, or below, the average range of the most recently admitted freshman class. You’ll find the average test scores and GPAs for more than 2,000 colleges in CollegeData’s college profiles, which you can access with College Search. A reach can also be a school that is highly selective, such as Ivy League and other highly competitive schools.

• Maybes are schools where your GPA, test scores, and class rank fall within the average range of the most recently admitted freshman class.

• Good Bets are schools where your GPA, test scores, and class rank are above the average range of the most recently admitted freshman class.

Regardless of whether the colleges you are considering are reaches, maybes or good bets — make sure they are schools you'd be happy to attend and are colleges you and your family can afford. Don't forget to take financial aid into account when looking for affordable — or financially friendly — colleges.  
CollegeData’s College Chances tool can help you identify reaches, maybes and good bets based on your current GPA, test scores, and other factors.

2. Get involved with an activity and consider a leadership role

Staying involved in your extracurriculars can be challenging junior year, especially if you are taking challenging courses. But, your activities and extracurriculars can demonstrate your interests outside of class and can provide an opportunity for you to show leadership. If you haven’t participated in any activities, now is the time to get involved — whether it’s with a club, a team, a community organization, or your church.

You don’t have to be the president of your club or team captain to demonstrate leadership, either. Organizing food drop-offs for people in your community, starting fundraisers, or planning events or strategies for the coming year to help keep your team or club going also show creativity and leadership.

3. Go on In-person or Virtual College Visits

If possible, go on a few college visits, even if it's only to some campuses in your local area. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many colleges cancelled in-person tours but expanded their online and virtual offerings to help students experience their campuses remotely. At most colleges, you’ll find virtual tours that take you around campus and into residential halls, classrooms, and more. 

You can also use social media to research colleges you are interested in or are considering or set up telephone or videoconference calls with admission officers from those schools. For more ways to learn about colleges without visiting, see Visit a College Without Stepping on Campus.

Most colleges are once again holding in-person tours, and your spring break can be a convenient time to attend these. Before you go, review these tips for making the most of a college visit and questions to ask. 

4. Attend a college fair

College fairs (virtual and in-person) can be a great way to learn about colleges and connect with admission reps. It’s important to plan ahead for a college fair so you can make the most of your time. Check out these do’s and don’ts for college fairs for some tips.

For more information on upcoming college fairs, visit the NACAC college fairs website, or consult the College Fair Guide for a list of fairs in your region. 

5. Choose Teachers to Write Your Recommendation Letters

Many college applications require one or more letters of recommendation from teachers and/or guidance counselors. Be sure you know which colleges on your list require recommendation letters and from whom they require them. Some colleges ask for letters from more than one teacher as well as a counselor. Many teachers prefer that you ask them for a recommendation before the end of your junior year so they have the summer to work on it. 

For tips on choosing whom to ask to write your recommendation letters, see How to Get the Best Letters of Recommendation.

6. Consider Signing Up for the SAT OR ACT

Although thousands of colleges have adopted test-optional admissions, counselors still advise students to take these tests, especially students who are applying to highly selective schools. “Test-optional” colleges will consider your test scores if you submit them, and if you score well on the SAT or ACT, submitting scores can work in your favor. If you are unable to take the SAT or ACT, or you don’t do as well on the test as you hoped, you can choose not to submit your scores and focus on other parts of your application. 

7. Learn About the Financial Aid Process

If you plan to apply for financial aid, it’s a good idea to learn about the types of aid available and how to apply for it. Start learning about how colleges figure cost of attendance, the concept of net price, and get familiar with the application forms students use to apply for financial aid: the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and the CSS Profile.

8. Discuss College Affordability with Your Family

It’s a good idea to start discussing college finances with your family — and even more important during uncertain economic times. It's important to consider how much you and your family are able and willing to spend for college, whether loans are an option, and ways you can make the cost manageable. For advice on how to start this conversation, see How to Talk with Your Parents About Paying for College.

9. Get Advice from High School Seniors

The seniors you know have just completed the long and sometimes grueling college application process. Ask them what advice they can share with you. What would they do differently if they could apply to college all over again? See CollegeData’s Road to College Student Stories for advice from real college students.

10. Line up support

It’s important to get support during the college application process — and the earlier the better. If you haven’t done so already, connect with your high school guidance counselor and let them know your interest in applying to college. You also might want to explore other resources, especially if your school’s counseling staff is limited. These resources may include a private college counselor, online advising services, or organizations such as QuestBridge and OneGoal that specialize in helping low-income and first-generation college students apply to college.

The college application process – from start to finish – is  a long one and it’s important to pace yourself. Tackling even a few of these tasks this spring will help pave the way for great applications come fall and a less stressful college application experience.

How to Start Your College List

CollegeData

There are more than 2,000 four-year colleges in the U.S. No wonder applying to college can feel overwhelming! Here's how to get started on your college search.

Doing an effective college search will help you trade your "getting-in" anxiety for a growing sense of excitement about your upcoming college life. In fact, just looking for colleges will teach you a great deal about what you really want.

Choose a Starting Point

It's best not to blindly hunt for colleges without some idea of what you are looking for. Here are three easy ways to get started.

1. Search based on college features. If you know that certain college qualities are high priorities for you, search for colleges with those qualities. How to Choose Your Top College Priorities can help you sort out the college features most important to you.
2. Search based on what you want to study. Finding the right academic fit is usually the highest priority for students who have some idea of a major. However, if you aren’t sure what you want to study or career path you want to pursue, look for colleges with a liberal arts or interdisciplinary studies major or other major that gives you flexibility in your choice of classes. For help, see How to Find Colleges if Your Major is Undecided.
3. Search based on college location. Want a school within a certain number of miles from home? Is there a city or region you would love to experience? Search for a variety of colleges located where you would like to live during your college years.

Use Efficient Tools

One of the most effective ways to search for colleges is to use an online search tool with a wide variety of college features, such as College Search. College Search lets you search for colleges based on a variety of factors, including geographic location, size, admission rate, financial friendliness, diversity, majors offered, and more.

Be Careful with National “Rankings”

College rankings, such as those published by U.S. News and World Report can serve as an easy starting point to learn about popular colleges. But it’s dangerous to assume that a highly ranked college is right for you, or that the ranking measures the factors important to you. Create your own college ranking based on the factors you are looking for in a college. For more information about college rankings, see Get Smart About College Rankings.

Learn More About the Colleges You Find

Once you have a list of six to eight colleges that meet some or all of your criteria, dive in and find out more about them. Research them online, visit their websites and YouTube channels, take their virtual tours, or look them up in a college guidebook. If a college looks like it could be the right fit, visit the campus. If you can’t visit, tour some nearby colleges that have features similar to that college.  

Searching Helps You Learn More About What You Want

No college is perfect or will meet all of your requirements, but some will interest you more than others. Make a note of what college features feel particularly “right” or meaningful. Ask yourself some of these questions:

• Will I be able to accomplish my educational goals at this college?
• Will I experience the level of challenge appropriate for me?
• Will I have the learning and social experiences that suit me?
• Will I be able to participate in activities that interest me?
• Do I feel excited about this college? Why? Or why not?

Your College List Is a Work in Progress

You don’t have to apply to every college you put on your initial list. In fact, you shouldn't. You should expect to add and remove colleges from your list as you discover more about what you want and don’t want. Odds are, your final list may look very different from the one you started with.

 

College Admissions Debunked!

Common College Admissions Myths Debunked by Former Admissions Officers

InGenius Prep

As you gear up for the upcoming application season you are going to be hearing a lot of rumors and college admissions myths that might stress you out. Do you need a perfect GPA? Do you need to excel at everything? How important is MONEY? To help ease your anxieties we have asked our team of esteemed Former Admissions Officers, or FAOs, from top 10 national universities, liberal arts schools, and Ivy League colleges to debunk some of the most common college admissions myths. 

MYTH #1 - True or False: Legacy students have a better chance of admissions

According to our Former Admissions Officers, this one among the common college admissions myths is TRUE. Although many colleges are trying to move away from this model, it remains true at most schools. 

While there is a recent trend against considering legacy applicants, legacy consideration persists in many colleges. Moreover, even if a college stated they did not consider legacy in the admission decision, this is always going to stand as a “background” consideration simply because the student’s motivation to attend/matriculate will likely be higher. This is important, particularly in regular decision and waitlist decision cases.

Legacy in college admissions is considered more strongly the closer the alum is to you, such as a parent or a sibling. Often, colleges specify what kind of relationship you must have with an alum to be considered as legacy—and different students define “legacy” differently. For example, Princeton only considers a student as legacy if their parents or step-parents attended the school. 

One notable exception is MIT, which has explicitly stated that “MIT doesn't consider legacy or alumni relations in our admissions process.”

MYTH #2 - True or False: You can buy your way into college.

This is one of the most prevalent college admissions myths, especially in light of the 2019 college bribery scandal.  According to our Former Admissions Officers, this is FALSE for most of us, with the exception that colleges will ask admissions officers to prioritize and very carefully review the applications of big donors. It depends on the college, but Stanford considers families capable of donating $500,000 or more as big donors. Sometimes families think if they make a gift or donation prior to their student applying it will matter—it will not. But enormous gifts to colleges, like funding entire buildings or having student centers named after you will certainly matter. However, this is not an economic reality for most families of applicants.

MYTH #3 - True or False: There are stereotypical extracurricular activities you should avoid

This particular myth is FALSE if a student is sincerely committed. Some activities like “Habitat for Humanity” or a JV sport your senior year are poked fun at because it’s an easy way for a student to “check off” a box. However, if the student has a real passion in a certain area or interest, all activities are fair game. 

If you find an activity meaningful and can explain why then it is good for you to do, it matters! But don’t just do activities because everyone else is doing them.

MYTH #4 - True of False: Debate and MUN are impressive activities for college

FALSE. These are very, very common activities. Unless you're able to achieve unprecedented success, these activities won't help someone stand out very much. While they are nice complementary activities, and add some real skills to a student’s academic life, they are rarely distinguishing. This is particularly true if the student has modest participation or accomplishments in either. 

MYTH #5 - True or False: A High SAT score is all you need to get into college

One of the college admissions myths people often subscribe to is that if you have a perfect SAT score you are a shoo in for colleges. This is FALSE. Students with perfect SAT and ACT scores are routinely denied from top schools. Moreover, Your grades and transcript are always going to be more important than test scores. At InGenius Prep, we also talk about something called “threshold SAT/ACT score,” meaning that once you’ve hit a certain score, getting a higher score will not significantly improve your chances of admission. For example, there aren’t any admissions offices that really care about the difference between a 1580 and a 1600 on the SAT. At that point, the rest of the student’s application is what matters. 

Testing has never been the most critical factor in this process. Especially with test-optional admissions becoming more common, admissions officers are paying attention to many other factors other than testing to make their admissions decisions. You can learn more about those factors in this blog. 

MYTH #6 - True or False: Colleges consider your family’s finances when deciding to admit you

This is TRUE at many colleges. The most competitive and well-endowed schools have need-blind admissions, but most colleges are in fact need-aware. Our FAOs agree that some colleges are “need blind” and make decisions without considering finances. But many are not, and ability to pay will be considered. Colleges will explicitly state on their financial aid offices whether or not they are need blind. Usually, a very quick Google search such as “is Columbia need blind” will give you your answer. You can learn more about the differences between need blind and need aware in this blog.

MYTH #7 - True or False: You need a perfect GPA to be Admitted to Top Colleges

This popular one among college admissions myths is FALSE. Students with perfect GPAs are frequently denied admission to their top choices, while those with “flawed” GPA are admitted to the same colleges. The holistic approach considers well more than the GPA. 

The admissions process is not about perfection. AOs want to see that students are taking the most rigorous courses available to them (and having sustained success). While keeping up your grades should always be the priority, make sure that striving for a perfect GPA does not distract you from developing your interests and pursuing impactful activities that AOs will care a lot about. 

That said, a perfect GPA doesn’t hurt. If you are looking at the top 25+ colleges, your GPA has to be top-notch.

MYTH #8 - True or False: Volunteer experience is a must

This one is one where our team actually didn’t have consensus! One of our Ivy League Former Admissions Officers said that this is FALSE. Volunteer experience is a nice addition to an extracurricular activity list, but not required. Many students have heavy time commitments in arts/music, theater, or sports and simply cannot fit in more than a few other activities which are often academic clubs. Admissions officers understand a student only has so much time outside of academic study.

However, another admissions officer, from a different Ivy League school, said that this is TRUE! Volunteering is one of the ways that you demonstrate that you care about others. There are many ways to volunteer and have a positive impact serving your community.

While of course it doesn’t hurt, we have seen students be admitted to colleges without volunteering experience. BUT, if the opportunity presents itself, or you are able to seek it out for yourself, you should definitely go for it and do it from the good of your heart rather than pursuing it for an admissions boost.

MYTH #9 - True or False: Demonstrated interest is important

This is TRUE more and more every year. Although the top dozen schools typically do not track demonstrated interest (as they assume everyone is interested in them), colleges do care about their yield, how many accepted students eventually matriculate. Technology has made it very easy for colleges to track your engagement so many do. This can be shown in many ways, including attending info sessions, signing up for emails, attending campus tours, and writing detailed “why school” essays.

MYTH #10 - True or False: You have to be well-rounded, excelling in every area

This is very common among college admissions myths. And it is very much FALSE. This is an old admission philosophy from about 20+  years ago, that even then, was not necessarily true. Colleges want specialists and people that can excel in 1-2 areas, so they can bring something to the campus/community that is different from what other students bring.

What is true is that a student should try not to have a “monolithic” profile with little diversity in academics and/or activities.

MYTH #11 - True or False: AI is becoming prevalent to help admission offices at top 20 schools to filter out applicants

This is FALSE. The human element is very important within the application process, especially at the most selective schools. However, there are schools using AI for chat functionality and/or to better serve students during the summer before they enroll. This seems to be more prevalent in less-selective schools though.

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College Admissions Process

NCAA permanently ends SAT, ACT eligibility requirement for Division I, II student-athletes

Jeremy Bauer-Wolf Senior Reporter

Dive Brief:

• The NCAA last month permanently removed a requirement that first-year Divisions I and II athletes earn a qualifying SAT or ACT score to participate in sports.
• The shift stems from an NCAA plan to advance racial equity, which entailed studying athletes’ eligibility requirements like admissions testing. 
• NCAA officials had waived these testing mandates starting in 2020, when COVID-19 began to spread and shut down typical exam sites.

Dive Insight:

Historically, first-year players who want to practice, compete and receive athletic financial aid in the top two sports divisions must earn a minimum SAT or ACT score. 

Athletes’ high school GPA determines the qualifying score — the higher a student’s GPA, the lower their required score will need to be.

Colleges in Division III set their own eligibility standards. 

However, as COVID-19 struck the world, the NCAA waived the testing requirement. Many places where students usually take the SAT or ACT had shut down, limiting students’ access to the exams.

These restrictions prompted institutions to loosen entrance exam mandates. And though pandemic-era restrictions have since been scaled back, many colleges preserved test-optional policies in their general undergraduate admissions process.

Supporters of test-optional admissions argue that the tests disadvantage vulnerable applicants who cannot afford the same extensive tutoring as their wealthier peers. 

Because some colleges have stepped away from admissions testing, NCAA officials felt the same standards should apply to athlete eligibility, Lynda Tealer, executive associate athletics director at the University of Florida and chair of the Division I Council, said in a statement.

The Division I Council, one of the NCAA’s governing bodies, voted to end standardized testing requirements at the association’s annual meeting in January. Division II representatives separately did the same at the meeting.

Athletes may still need to take the SAT or ACT for colleges that have not dropped their own testing requirements for general admissions. Some athletics scholarships also require test scores.

Make a Wish Leadership

Attention rising 10th, 11th, and 12th graders! Make-A-Wish Georgia is looking for students to apply and join the Atlanta Youth Leadership Council for the 2023-2034 school year. If you are looking to give back to your community and are interested in teamwork, fundraising, leadership opportunities, and granting wishes, please apply today! 

Applications will be open from February 1st until April 1st. Link: Kids for Wish Kids® - Make-A-Wish® Georgia

Link: Kids for Wish Kids® - Make-A-Wish® Georgia

 

Testing Skills a Little Frozen? Warm Up with Applerouth!

Your students can take a free proctored SAT and ACT during Applerouth’s Winter Testing Weekend. They’ll get a detailed score breakdown, access to strategy sessions, and a custom study plan.

Free SAT & ACT Practice Tests February 25-26

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What’s Included:

Exclusive online Strategy Sessions for students to learn key test-taking strategies before the practice test.Free online and in-person SAT and ACT practice tests, detailed score reports, and an online session to help students understand their practice test scores.Testing Timeline webinar and a private phone consultation for parents to help create the most effective prep plan for their student.Once your student reserves their spot, they’ll be automatically enrolled in the following free online strategy sessions to help them understand their score report and learn key test-taking strategies.

SAT Strategy Session Tuesday, February 21 8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT

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Understanding Your SAT/ACT Scores Thursday, March 2 8:00pm ET / 5:00pm PT

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Military Academy Day

U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff and Georgia’s Congressional Delegation announced that 2023 Military Academy Day will be held on Saturday, April 22, at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta.

High school students and their families are invited to learn more about the application and congressional nomination process for the five U.S. Service Academies — the U.S. Air Force Academy, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, the U.S. Military Academy, and the U.S. Naval Academy.

At this year’s Military Academy Day, students and families will have the opportunity to meet with:

• Senator Jon Ossoff

• Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock

• Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-02)

• Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04)

• Congressman Rich McCormick (GA-06)

• Congresswoman Lucy McBath (GA-07)

• Georgia military leaders

• Other members of the Georgia’s Congressional Delegation to be confirmed

• Representatives from all five service academies

• ROTC representatives from the Air Force, Navy, Army, and Marine Corps

More information and sign-up for the event can be found here. The RSVP deadline is Sunday, April 2, 2023.

-- Kiana Perkins (she/her) | Digital Correspondence & Outreach Associate 470-842-1285| kiana_perkins@ossoff.senate.gov

 

Auburn Summer Camps

Greetings from the College of Architecture, Design and Construction at Auburn University!

I am excited to announce that registration for our 2023 High School Summer Camps has opened! We offer on campus camps focusing in Architecture, Industrial Design and Building Construction as well as two full scholarship on campus camps!

The Construction Management Summer Academy for Young Women is a one-week full scholarship program and every student selected to attend will receive a full scholarship for the camp. This camp is a great opportunity for any young women who are considering the fields of Architecture, Construction, Civil Engineering or Environmental Design. We are currently accepting applications and students can apply online at aub.ie/cmsayw.

The Design and Construction Discovery Camp (DCDC) is a five-day, four-night camp and every student selected to attend will receive a full scholarship for the camp. Each day of camp will focus on a different area of the CADC. Students will complete one project in each major in the college with an exhibition of work to be shown on the final day. This camp is open to all but focuses on students who self-identify as members of underrepresented populations. Students can apply online at aub.ie/dcdcsummercamp.

If you have any students who are interested in learning more about our summer camp opportunities, please encourage them to visit aub.ie/summercamps.

I am also happy to answer questions! Students can email me directly at kmb0023@auburn.edu or call my office at 334-844-4569.

Thanks so much!

Katherine Buck Chastain ’12 ‘16

Administrator of Student Recruitment

College of Architecture, Design and Construction

Auburn University

120 Dudley Hall

Auburn, AL 36849

334-844-4569

Check out our Virtual Visit Experience: https://aub.ie/virtualvisit

 

UGA 2023 Freshman Applicant Pool - from Dr. David Graves, UGA Admissions

David Graves February 6th, 2023 in Blog 

The applications are all in for the UGA Regular Decision group of students, so here is some information on the total UGA freshman applicant pool for Fall 2023.

• The total application numbers (EA and RD) are roughly 43,600, which is up substantially from last year.

• Roughly 26,000 students applied for Early Action, and 17,600 applied for Regular Decision. We do not treat either group differently in the review process, only in the timelines for decisions.

• Roughly 45% of the applicant pool is in-state, and 55% is out-of-state/international. Due to UGA being the flagship university for the state of Georgia, we do have a goal of having our enrolling class (not accepted but enrolling) be roughly 80% in-state and 20% out-of-state, so it will be somewhat more challenging to be admitted as a non-GA resident.

• We have applicants from just over 6,300 high schools, with the range going from 1 applicant (a number of schools) to 438 applicants (Lambert HS). We do not limit decisions based on the high school a student has attended, but instead look at each student individually.

• The top six choices of major by applicants is Biology (3447 applicants), followed by Business (3113), Finance (2707), Psychology (2092), Marketing (1958) and Computer Science (1806). A student is not tied to their initial choice of major, as enrolling students can change their major prior to orientation using the UGA student system called Athena. As well, this means we do not have different decisions based on different majors, as this would not make sense due to the ability to change majors.

• We have applicants from 154 of the 159 GA counties, with the five outliers generally being from counties without a high school in the county, ones with a tiny HS age population, etc.

• The average core course GPA for the entire applicant pool of 39,700 is roughly a 3.87 using the UGA GPA calculation method. This is not the GPA you see on your HS transcript, as that is usually very different from our GPA. We see such a wide variety of HS GPA’s and grading scales, ranging from 4.0, 5,0, 6.0, 12.0, and 100 methods (and more), thus using the various HS GPA’s on a transcript does not allow for equal comparisons. The link I have provided shows exactly how we calculate a GPA. Again, this the UGA GPA average for the entire pool, so as you can see the applicant pool is very strong academically.

• The average ACT and SAT for the entire applicant pool of 43,600 is roughly a 28 Composite/1292 Total. While core grades and a student’s curriculum are generally better indicators of academic strength than test scores, I am giving this data out due to the state of Georgia mandating test scores for all the GA public colleges/universities.

• The projected freshman class is 6,200 students, and since we know that not all applicants we admit will enroll at UGA, we will offer a much large number of students than the size of the class (we do not have details on this specific number). We will not know exact details until we are able to look at the overall applicant pool, do analysis of how we project the admitted students will yield (meaning will they select UGA), and are then able to finalize decisions.

• Currently, we are deep into the review of freshman files, so that means we are reading hundreds of files daily. As such, we are limited in our ability to respond to emails and phone calls.

• Remember that UGA does not use demonstrated interest in our admission or scholarship reviews, so there is no need to email, text, or call us to let us know that UGA is high on your list of future colleges. We assume that if you applied to UGA, you are interested in us.

• We will have two waves of decisions going out in the next 3 months. A small group of students will be admitted in mid-February, and these students are academically at the top end of the applicant pool, would have been admitted in EA, and are almost exclusively RD applicants. The final decisions for all RD and deferred EA students will be released in mid-March. No dates for these two waves are available now, but we will give them out prior to the decision dates.

• We continue to review files for both admissions and scholarships, and the next round of scholarships will be tied to the mid-March decision date or after. Students do not have to take any additional steps to be considered for scholarships, as we use the admission application for the review.

Good luck, and Go Dawgs!

 

Summer Pre-College Programs

Pre-college summer programs for high school students are held at colleges and universities throughout the United States and overseas. Sometimes these programs focus on one area: STEM (science, technology, engineering and math); the performing and visual arts; or humanities such as history, politics or writing. They usually run for one to six weeks, depending on the program, and are available for all schedules and budgets. Pre-college programs give students a chance to experience life on a college campus, to live in a dorm, to check out a specific school and to learn some of the independence that will be required once they attend college. Some pre-college programs offer college credit and/or community service. Most also welcome day students.

Click the link below to see what programs are available.

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Summer Pre-College Programs