http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean Answers to your college questions Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:30:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Question: I am a high school counselor who has been given the task of creating a curriculum for Internet safety. An area that I would like to address is the idea that colleges could access information about individual students via the Internet. I would also like to address ... http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/internet-safety-and-college-admissions.htm Question: My daughter just went through the college application process and will be attending Harvard in September. I don't know how prevalent this is, but she took the ACT and SAT (one time each), scored a 34 and 2230 respectively, and submitted both scores with her college applications. My ... http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/should-son-with-perfect-act-score-submit-sat-too.htm Question: I have an extremely rigorous high school curriculum. I have been able to take several AP courses that were not intended for my grade level and have been able to accelerate in many areas. Will admissions officers notice this and see it as exceptional, or would it look just ... http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/will-admission-committees-notice-my-heavy-duty-course-load.htm Question: I was recently accepted into the "Honors Program" at the college I will attend in the fall, increasing my odds of receiving the "Presidential Scholarship." My parents appear to make too much money for me to get need-based aid. The school denied me the merit scholarship based on my ... http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/honors-program-admission-may-not-mean-merit-bucks-too.htm Question: I am a 53-year-old history student. I have just been accepted into the McNair Scholars Program and am scared, as most of the recipients are in their 20s. If I do go to graduate school, I wonder if anyone will even hire me, as I will be 58 ... http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/grad-school-and-career-for-50-something.htm Question: My son is an excellent student (top 10th of class) with good extracurriculars (literary magazine co-editor, student council member, glee club president, Model UN). His math SAT score is decent (670) but his Critical Reading score (560) is well below the mid-point range at the colleges that interest ... http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/are-tests-really-optional-at-test-optional-colleges.htm Question: My daughter just graduated from high school and needs a loan for college. My husband and I have horrible credit and cannot get a loan. Can she get one? Assuming that your daughter can't find an adult co-signer with good credit (grandparent, aunt, uncle, etc.), she should talk to ... http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/help-parents-have-bad-credit-can-our-daughter-still-get-a-college-loan.htm Question: If I have B's, C's and D's on my high school transcript, can I still get a scholarship? The C's and D's will make it hard to get a scholarship, but definitely not impossible. There are two general types of financial aid ... one is "merit aid" that students typically ... http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/scholarship-for-cd-student.htm Question: My son is a high school sophomore and had been planning to take AP Calculus at his high school in the fall. However, he learned from a college advisor/family friend that taking the course at a community college might be more challenging and interesting for him. He is excited ... http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/calculus-at-community-college-or-ap-calc-at-high-school.htm Question: Does the Telluride Association Program for Juniors (TASP) really pay dividends in the application process? In other words, do top schools actively recruit TASP students, or is it their academic abilities that set them apart? Spotting Telluride on an application almost always puts a gleam in admission officials' eyes. While ... http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/college-admissions-pay-off-for-telluride-particpation.htm