There is a college out there for you!

Hello Juniors!  I hope you are enjoying the warmer weather. Some of you may have had an opportunity to visit some colleges or are thinking about visiting colleges. There are so many great ones, and to illustrate just how many fabulous choices and options there are, I thought I would send a list of some of the schools our Seniors have been admitted to.  We had the great fortune of working with students interested in engineering, science, pre-med, game design, visual art, performing art, business, policy, politics, communications, etc., and many more students who don’t yet know what their interests are! My point? Don’t stress; there is a college out there for you! Here are just some of the schools represented by our High School Class of 2019:

  • Allegheny-Honors program

  • American University

  • Arizona State

  • Baldwin Wallace

  • Becker College

  • Carroll College

  • Carnegie Mellon (priority waitlist)

  • Champlain College

  • Chapman University

  • Colorado State University/Fort Collins

  • Cornell College

  • Dickinson

  • Eastern Washington

  • Fordham University

  • Gonzaga

  • Ithaca College

  • Lewis and Clark

  • Loyola Marymount

  • Loyola New Orleans

  • Loyola University Chicago

  • Maryland Institute College of Art

  • Montana State

  • University of Montana

  • NYU

  • Occidental

  • Ohio Wesleyan

  • Oregon State

  • Oregon State Honors School

  • Pace University

  • Pacific Lutheran

  • Regis College - Denver

  • Ripon College

  • Santa Clara – School of Business

  • Santa Clara – School of Arts and Sciences

  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  • Seattle Pacific University

  • Seattle University

  • St Olaf College

  • St. Edwards College in Austin, TX

  • Syracuse University

  • The New School

  • University of California Santa Barbara

  • University of Colorado/Boulder

  • University of Denver

  • University of Miami

  • University of Michigan/Stamps School of Art and Design

  • University of Oregon

  • University of Oregon – Clark Honors School

  • University of Portland

  • University of Redlands

  • University of San Francisco

  • University of Washington

  • University of Washington/Bothell

  • Washington State University

  • Western Washington University

  • Westminster College (Salt Lake City) 

Lastly, most of you took the SAT’s at school in March. If your scores were where you wanted them to be, congratulations!  If not, most students take the SAT’s or ACTs about three times. And, many colleges super-score your results, meaning they take the best sub-score from each sitting and combine them, so it often pays to take them more than once. My rule of thumb, which is very general and not scientific, is that if you want to see an increase of 100 points, you need to do at least 20 hours of studying on your own, outside of any one on one tutoring or classes. There are some great, free resources to study on your own, including:

  • Khan Academy - they have a partnership with College Board (the administrators of SAT) and you can link your College Board account with your Kahn Academy account, and they will work to put a study program together that meets your needs and profile.

  • The Official SAT Study Guide, put out by the College Board

  • The Applerouth Study Guides, which can be obtained through their website. 

Of course, if you’d like some individual tutoring, let us know. Either we can help, or if we can’t or aren’t a good fit, we can find someone who can!