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10 Ways to F’Up Your College Applications

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

At this time of year, high school seniors are still hopeful little bunnies, preparing their college applications for the hard winter to come. But by December 1st, you’ll be so overwhelmed with essays, financial aid, and exams that you’ll be lucky if you can even remember to dot your “i”s. Beware: admissions officers are notoriously picky about procedure, and one little mistake could seriously ruin your chances at your top-choice.
To help you avoid a snafu, here are the 10 ways to f’up on your college applications:

  1. Forget your own name. The mother of all F’ups, if you don’t put the right name on the application, they can’t admit you!
  2. Attach a “Benjamin”. Repeat after me: I will not bribe the admissions office. I will not bribe…
  3. Misspell Wrds. You’ll read real good one day. But seriously, spell everything correctly, and use complete sentences. Otherwise, you look like a moron.
  4. Mail it in late. Double check the deadline, and don’t forget to check to see if that date is when it needs to be RECIEVED by, or just postmarked. If it needs to be received by a certain date, make sure to mail it at least a week in advance.
  5. Improper postage. The good old United States Postal service is fraught with potential application snafus. One wrong stamp, and your app good be stamped REJECTED.
  6. Forget to send in your transcripts. Make sure to notify your guidance counselor of the schools you will be applying to, and go through the proper procedure for getting your high school to send your transcripts directly to the colleges.
  7. Ask the wrong teacher for a recommendation. It goes without saying: ask teachers that you know like you for a rec. That bio teacher you thought found your snores secretly charming? Not a good candidate.
  8. Print illegibly. If they can’t read it, they can’t really evaluate it. If you can, type your applications. The easier you make it on the admissions department, the better your chances.
  9. Dot your “i”s with smiley faces. You dweeb.
  10. Send in the wrong application. I’m sure Harvard REALLY wants to read all about how Yale is your dream school.

Any other way’s you’ve heard of? Leave ‘em in the comments, not your apps!

POSTED BY Bloggin' with Robin IN Admissions Process, Applications, Articles, Top 10
10.14.09
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7 Extracurricular Activities NOT to Put on your College Application

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

So you have a lot of extracurriculars. Volunteer at the animal shelter, play violin, and work at summer camp. Think you’re pretty special? Take a look at the 7 extracurricular activities that won’t impress a college admissions officer. Make sure they’re not your college application!

1) 1st Kazoo Player-What are you, eight? If your musical talents lie in making multi-octave fart noises, pack up your instrument, and go home.

2) Quidditch Captain-It’s. Not. A. Real. Sport. Unless you are a magical boy-wonder hell-bent on saving the world from dark forces (or you want to go to Vassar College) do not play Quidditch. Or Curling. Really, any sport that requires a broom.

3) Keeper of the Ring-Okay, so you and your friends really, really like Lord of the Rings. Spare the rest of us the misfortune of watching you hike around for days while you yammer on about “the power of the ring”. We all saw the movie. And it sucked.

4) Starbucks Volunteer-Just because your best friend works at Starbucks and you hang around all
day to bum free coffee (and occasionally put up the chairs at the end of the night) does not mean you “volunteer” there. Get a real job.

5) V.P. of the Pepsi Rocket Club-Minimal scientific value=minimal college admissions points. Try
building a rocket with materials you didn’t shoplift from the corner store.

6) Secretary of the You-Tube AV Club-Maybe if you make 100 lame, annoying videos on you-tube, you’ll finally make the one that propels you to international internet fame. Just don’t tell the college admissions office about it.

7) Computer Solitaire League-Um, you play it by yourself. Is it really a league?

POSTED BY Bloggin' with Robin IN Applications, Top 10
06.25.09
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Great Schools for Non-traditional Students

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Not every student has the opportunity or the desire to attend college straight out of high school. While the traditional age to begin college is 17 or 18, there are many older college students working towards degrees these days.

These schools have the highest enrollment, by percent, of undergraduate students over the age of 25. 

10.  University of Maryland - University College (82%)
9.  Peirce College (83%)
8.  Kaplan University (85%)
7.  University of Phoenix (88%)
6.  Thomas Edison State College (88%)
5.  Union Institute and University (94%)
4.  Woodbury College (95%)
3.  Charter Oak State College (95%)
2.  Western Governors University (95%)
1.  Excelsior College (97%)

Are you a non-traditional college student trying to make sense of the college search and application process? You can find all the answers at CampusCompare.

POSTED BY Joe Campus IN Top 10
09.29.08
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