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  • Art School Confidential: UCLA

    Los Angeles is an international hub for the visual and performing arts, and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) provides premier arts education and programming to the Los Angeles community and beyond. At the university’s founding in 1919, three of the twelve original majors were in the arts—Graphic Arts, Music, and Theater Arts—and the…

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  • It’s All About Networking

    Are your students networking for internships and jobs?  They are probably on Facebook and Twitter, maybe have a Linkedin profile (good idea by the 1st year of college), and probably applying for jobs and internships online.  That’s networking, right?  Yes, but are they doing any face-to-face networking?  So maybe they are meeting with classmates and…

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  • Knocked Down 7 Times, Get Up 8

    While in high school and college, I ran Cross Country. I may be terribly biased, but I don’t know if you can find athletes that are bigger head-cases than distance runners. While Cross Country is a team sport, the training you do before race day is largely done on an individual level. With each stride,…

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  • Arthur Arzola Memorial Scholarship

    This week I wanted to take a minute to highlight a new scholarship opportunity which will be available to WACAC members through the Diversity Equity and Access committee. Please take a minute to familiarize yourself with the Arthur Arzola Memorial Scholarship, as well as about Arthur and his work at Humboldt State University. The Arzola Scholarship has…

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  • The Power of People

    New online tools, designed to help students and families navigate the college planning and application process, are constantly springing up. Many of these are quite well done and can be valuable resources- helping students research schools, learn about admission requirements, and explore majors. Others fall short, giving students biased, incomplete or even inaccurate information. As…

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  • The Scientific Method

    If it was good enough for Einstein, it’s good enough for today’s budding scientists. I’m talking about the scientific method. And getting into college. And how the former can help bring about the latter. I’ve found that when working with left-brained college applicants looking to focus on STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and math), it…

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  • It All Depends

    As the fall frenzy surges, seniors suddenly need help—lots of it. Instructions on balancing out the list, advice on essay writing, tips on what to put here and there, hand-holding wherever it’s available—you name it, they’ll take it. It’s a great opportunity for consultants who are looking for ways to get their name out to…

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  • Presidential Pontifications with Peggy Hock

    My students’ stories are sometimes hard to hear. There is the pain in the voice of the student recounting that he is one of the hidden homeless and in the voice of the student recounting the impulsive bad decision that caused her to be expelled from her first high school. Will colleges require him to…

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