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To defer or not to defer?

Posted by Neal Schwartz on June 02, 2020

 

 

High school seniors are facing the dilemma of the century. But is deferring their freshman year in favor of a gap year the right choice?

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Topics: college admissions, online learning, distance learning, college counseling, college plans for the fall, gap year, college freshman

US Colleges are facing a pivotal moment, will they change?

Posted by Neal Schwartz on May 05, 2020

 

 

 

How will the pandemic transform college as we know it?

 

As the uncertainty about the pandemic’s impact on the future of college continues to unfold, there is a wide range of speculation, starting with school this fall. Should colleges plan for an online fall, delay the whole semester, or just plan for a regular semester?

Should social distancing be enforced by individual states, there could be a potpourri of fall openings. Such measures for a successful fall opening would involve getting students, faculty, and staff tested, reducing the number of students per class, integrating rotating schedules, offering a hybrid of online and in-person classes; the list goes on and on.

But underneath all of the operational questions for each college lies the financial question. What is the financial health of the college? Even though no one was prepared for anything like the pandemic, some colleges will be hit harder than others. That's because of three factors:

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Topics: college admissions, online learning, distance learning, online college counseling, college financial health, college counseling, college plans for the fall, international college students, college affordability, college value proposition

Changing the College Plan: Has Competitive college admissions peaked?

Posted by Neal Schwartz on April 20, 2020

 

As we deal with the current shutdown of the majority of our society due to the virus, what's next when it comes to the college process?  Many things are changing radically, but it would be premature to say that a college degree will become worthless; college is still the brass ring for most Americans. So what can you do during this time? I suggest that students and parents think out of the box.  Sure, short-term, it is pretty chaotic right now, with information changing rapidly. But, keeping a level head through this situation can help. For example, parents of Juniors could flip the "normal" college-prep sequence and start key aspects of the application process a couple of months early.  


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Topics: College Essays, College Applications, college admissions, online learning, online SAT Prep, online ACT Prep, onlline college counseling, distance learning, common app

Online Learning means you may need our services more than ever

Posted by Neal Schwartz on March 30, 2020

Education is one of the first sectors of our society to pivot to remote strategies. Depending on your school, whether that is high school or college, professors and teachers have been thrown into a new reality of online education. For some less technologically-savvy teachers who are forced to get creative and learn new online teaching techniques, it is likely to be a very tough transition. But if it is already tough for the teachers, how are their students expected to fare?

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Topics: online learning, online SAT Prep, online ACT Prep, onlline college counseling, distance learning

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