Colleges and universities with rolling, late, or extended deadlines OK, so it’s almost graduation and for whatever reason you haven’t applied to college. Maybe you didn’t think you wanted to go at all, but now as many of your friends are in the process of reviewing their offers of admission you now have a change of [...]
Courtesy of Education Week By Caralee J. Adams The anxiety of high school juniors—and their parents—over taking college-entrance exams is creating a market force for the test-prep industry. Dozens of companies are flooding mailboxes with offers to hire tutors and enroll in classes, including online courses to make preparation for the high-stakes tests more convenient [...]
I would like to thank Robert Negrete and the great faculty and staff of Foothill HS in Henderson, NV for the invitation to speak at tonight’s Above and Beyond Beyond award banquet to recognize their top students. My presentation focused on the importance of taking rigorous classes throughout high school with a special emphasis on Advanced [...]
I would like to thank the wonderful staff at Desert Oasis HS in Las Vegas for the opportunity to participate in their Advanced Placement Parent Night program this evening and as promised I am posting a copy of my presentation. Just click on the red “X” t0 download the presentation pdf. Students that take AP [...]
WUE (pronounced “woo-wee”) is the Western Undergraduate Exchange, a program of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE). Through WUE, students in western states may enroll in more than 140 two-year and four-year college institutions at a reduced tuition level: 150 percent of the institution’s regular resident tuition. The program began in 1987 and [...]
