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Coping with Decision Stress
For many students, making decisions around college can be the biggest decision they have made for themselves to date. While, if you’re anything like me, you may find that idea exciting, it also can bring about some stress, leading students to feel overwhelmed. The thing about “the college decision” is it is not a singular decision. It’s often simplified as “choosing a college,” but that’s simply not true.
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What’s the Big Deal with the 2024 FAFSA Delays?
If you’ve spent any time watching the news lately, you may have heard some news about the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, also known as the FAFSA. Specifically, you may have heard information about various delays and how that’s going to affect you as a current senior considering college options. However, when you’ve never filed the FAFSA or received financial aid offers before, it can be difficult to know exactly what all the news that’s out there means, or more specifically, what it means for you and your family during your college decision process. So we’re here to help! We’ll give you a quick explanation for what’s happening, what…
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What Do You Mean by “Holistic”?
“We review applications holistically based on several factors, including courses taken, grades received, college essay, activities and honors, recommendations, and, if submitted, test scores.” This is what you will find if you review Agnes Scott’s website for information on how we review your application. But what, exactly, does it mean to review applications holistically? And what does it mean at Agnes Scott?
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An Application Opens
August 1 has come and gone and with it, the Common Application, and thus, Agnes Scott’s admission process, has once again opened. While it will be some time until we actually jump into applications (Agnes Scott’s first deadline is the November 1 Early Decision deadline), we know that many students are already in the Common Application, starting to fill it out. With that in mind, we present to you this one-act play, presented in its entirety: “A Common Application.”
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ASC’s Rising Senior Summer Survival Guide
If you’re anything like me, sometimes you don’t give your Future Self a lot to work with. Whether it’s eating dairy as a lactose intolerant individual or procrastinating on a paper, sometimes Present Me decides that the consequences are Future Me problems. In the college search and application process, however, leaving everything for the Future You will make for an extremely stressed and concerned version of yourself. And while that Future You may seem far away, it’s not too long before you’ll be dealing with it. However, we at Agnes Scott are also big proponents of rest and relaxation during the summer; we don’t want you only focusing on your…
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Making Big Decisions
It’s the beginning of April, and with it a time of big decisions. For high school seniors across the country, it’s a time of deliberation and decision; the National Candidate’s Reply Deadline for most colleges and universities looms ahead on May 1, and while many may have already made their college decisions, there are many more who are still considering and making their choice every day.
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What to do when you want to do everything
Some people have known exactly what they wanted to do for a long time. They know, with 100% certainty, what career they want to have and what college major they need to get there. I am not some people. I also suspect that you are not that person. You likely have many interests and careers that you’re considering, and you can’t figure out how you’re supposed to distill all of that into one college major. As someone who has definitely been there, done that, you should know that you have several different options in college that will help you meet those different interests (whatever they may be). Here’s a few…
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Inhabiting Curiosity
Like many people, I am a big fan of the idea of space. It started, for me, with learning all the names of the planets through a Blue’s Clues song (and yes, Pluto was still a planet at that point) and then graduated into science fiction novels and films. I follow NASA and other research teams on social media and keep up with new research findings, even when I don’t entirely understand them.
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The Real Questions
I recently participated on a panel offering advice to prospective students on their college search process. During this panel, we spoke about the value of finding your fit–the idea that identifying the colleges that you can see yourself thriving in will contribute to success during and after college. After a few of us made this point, a student unmuted and asked, “But how can you tell if a college is a good fit for you?”
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Finishing Strong
Let’s address the elephant in the room for high school seniors: as you begin your final semester of high school, it’s not necessarily the most relaxing time in your life. In addition to, well, finding out admission decisions, figuring out financial aid, and making your final college choice, you’re also finishing out your high school experience. Oh, and also, doing it in a resurgence of COVID-19 variants.
