Female High school student w phone and iPad on campus
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How Important is Demonstrated Interest for College Admission?

Due to the ease of applying through the Common and Coalition college application platforms, students are applying to more colleges than ever before.  And colleges are well aware of that trend.  It makes their job more difficult because they want to admit the students who are most likely to attend. Maybe that makes the answer…

tables lined up in gym with college representatives behind them
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Why You Should Go to a College Fair and What You Should Do While You’re There

I have a confession:  Until last winter, I was anti-college fair.  There were a number of reasons for that.  The major one was that we were able to visit all the schools on Kids #1 and #2’s college lists at some point prior to college application time.  We were not as fortunate for Kid #3…