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Hello and Greetings Mustang Nation thank you all for joining us this evening for a nice little conversation from our College Panelists most here tonight we are excited to offer this for you remotely and give you some great information and hopefully some clarification offer our students to the College admission process self as we are collectively going through this covid-19 situation we hope to provide you with the most information accurate up-to-date as possible this point to help ease the anxiety that you might be facing at this point with the College admission process so my name is Michael Anthony I'm the post secordary development counselor at Mainland Regional High School's school counseling department again we are excited to offer you all the opportunities available remotely at this point and just some before we continue with this just know that we dohave resources available on our School counseling website anything that we can do remotely where we've recorded videos put other updates about college admissions information up there so please use that as a resource to continue to go to as we continue to work-from-home questions of course you can always reach out to your individual counselor as well but to start this off I just want everybody to go around and introduce himself the University or college the representing and what their position is there so whoever wants to just starting off hi my name is Stacy Fonseca I'm the director of enrollment management at the University of Tampa and University of Tampa we're located in Sunny Tampa Florida we are located one block from downtown Tampa on the Hillsborough River we're a medium-sized University we have about 10,000 students 9 thousand in the undergraduate program 200 different majors We're NCAA division 2 and we have about a third of our students from the state of Florida that a third from the Northeast the third is from all the other states and 142 countries so it's not just the sunshine drawing people down to Florida we are pretty healthy right now that's a big draw But it's really those internship opportunites whether you're coming down to learn more about marine science or maybe it's athletic training management and you want to work with the professional teams the accreditation, there's the opportunities and the internship opportunities or maybe it's just the affordability are total cost is 42000 for tuition room board and fees but there's a bunch of reasons and hopefully at the end of tonight you know a little bit more about us and be interested great thank you Stacey I can start as well my name is Miss I'm from the University of Tampa as well I'm an admissions counselor and I'm also a former graduate I graduated in 2018 so if you have any student life questions or that kind of stuff, I'd me more that hapy to answer them for you I'll finish out the team Tampa that I'm hello everyone my name is Lance Tackett Stacy is your admissions rep although sometimes I do make a special visit out to New Jersey but I'm here tonight to talk about financial aid with you and hopefully answer some questions that you have I can kick this off next Hi guys, I hope everyone is having a lovely evening.  My name is Doug I am one of the assistant directors of Admisions of admission at ursinus College Located about 45 minutes away from Philadelphia we are a smaller liberal arts institution We have about 1500 students however we do sit on 170 acres.  We have about 30 different Majors that we offer as well as 30 different minors about 80% of our students are going to double major or attach a minor to their  program of study we also are one of the top 100 liberal arts colleges within the country. So hopefully you guys have some really good questions cuz I think we're all ready to get some really great information continue with the liberal arts streak we have going here My name is Kaleigh Wolfe I am an admissions counselor from Xavier University we located about 10 minutes north of Cincinnati Ohio famous for it's chili, if you've ever heard of Skyline and Goldstar you can taste it in Cincinnati Like I said We are 10 minutes norh of the city we are a smaller to medium sized student body We have about, just shy of 5000 undergraduate students abot 7000 with grad programs to what really distinguishes Xavier I think is that we offer kind of the big school experience from our division I athlethics which compete in the Big East Conference but we also are offer that small faculty to student ration 12:1 ratio So if you're looking to really be able to connect with your classmates know those in your class know your professors really well but also take advantage of some of the big city opportunitie that's definitely something we can offer you at Xavier I guess I'll go now next my name is Cheryl I am one of the regional admissions counselors. That just means I live in New York Ciy but I recruit students from NY, NJ and PA bit about UT we are Division 1 institution We have 9 colleges our bigger colleges include nursing architecture engineering and business as well we also are located in downtown Knoxville and so you get the full experience of being in a city but also having the institution having its own space We are a larger insitutution, we have about 26000 students total but we have over 360 Clubs and acitivies for you to choose from so you are able to that little bit smaller feel hi my name is Marcy Rosas I'm assistant director of Recruitment and Outreach at Rutgers University New Brunswick I also happen to be a very proud alumna and I think probably your own familiar with Rutgers we are the University of New Jersey and Rutgers New Brunswick is a flagship University of New Jersey we happen to be the 8th oldest instituion of higher learning in the United States We are a large university in New Brunswick We have about 35,000.undergraduate student we have a very beautiful and unique campus it's broken down to five smaller neighborhoods that are right next to each other each one has its own distinct personality environment, feel, whatever you want to call it really great we offer over a hundred Majors we have a lot of different schools we have a liberal arts school, a school of engineering, we have a pharmacy Rutgers business school our school of environmental and biological sciences which offers a lot of very unique science majors Mason gross School of the Arts and our school of nursing there a lot of really great opportunities at Rutgers we are a Premier Research university you can get involved in research soon as you get to Rutgers you can just dig in and a lot of students get involved in more than one research project at Rutgers we are Division 1 Big Ten Conference Athletics thank you everyone I'm Kaies I'm the assistant director for recruitment at Penn State University so welcome we're excited to be here and talk with all of you guys I am going to apologize my neighbor has decided to mow their grass and my walls are not super thick apologize ahead of time so Penn State has a bit for everyone we have 20 campuses that range in size from about 500 students all the way up to our largest with 46000 students so I always say we are small Medium and then XXL. We have over 275 Majors to pick from and over 1200 Club be a part of so if you want to come to Pennsylvania with a virtual world we're living in we have our virtual campus as well so we kind of meet you where you're at there so I wish you well as you kind of finish up your year virtually and I wish you guys luck I wish you guys well and I'm excited to talk to you guys great thank you all so much I really appreciate taking the time to share your experience and your knowledge of higher education and I'm really excited that we have such a great subsection schools from the private to large State School to the smaller liberal arts schools to really give that well-rounded view of all the different schools that are out there first day without any more hesitation let's get into it we have a lot of Juniors that I'm sure they're tuning in tonight and their parents and a lot of them were going through the college search process so  just what are some of your recommendations for those Juniors that are soon to be seniors in terms of researching colleges and are there any virtual tools that you would recommend that they use at this point I'll just open that up all All us need to have a virtual options for  students.  Definitely try to do a Virtual Tour of the School and then also if the institution allows try to give you a virtual meet and greet with your intended to Department that you're going into, that way you are still able to ask those questions extremely difficult responses from the individual that you are going to be working with on a daily basis So try to go on each website as much as you can and see what their options are and then utilize all of them and then once you have all of your information definitely reach out to your admissions counselor and ask them for a play by play of your next step in your senior year. That way you know all of your deadlines and you can feel comfortable throughout the summer getting a few things done and then once Senor year hits you're off you're off and running That's great advice Cheryl thank you so much for that and it just started to make a note we will hold a Q&A p.m. so if you do have any questions you can just take that right into the chat and Samantha will be able to to moderate that section for you okay with testing college board and act lot of them had to cancel test a lot of locations are still closed at this point I guess individually a lot of schools are going test optional for next year in summer going even further than that where do you stand I guess everybody will have their own individual answers with this as far as beiing test optional or not I can start this off of the University of Tampa has no intention of becoming a test-optional university and I know many universities are considering that however I think it's important to ask universities that are considering test-optional how that will or how it may affect scholarship opportunities and will they look at your application different financial aid award or merit based aid differently with that being said I have spoken with representatives from college board they handled the SAT as well as Act nrccua both of those companies are prepared in the event that the state of New Jersey is not able to provide you know testing in they are two different things they can provide testing on the weekends for some reason that is not available they are prepared to provide testing online so that you would be able to test in your home and they will provide as many test dates as would have normally been available to you so I think it's important to use your time this summer to prepare for those tests because it will be made available to you they're not going to make it available online unless it is absolutely necessary because it will require a proctor to identify you by individual and they're going to be using artificial intelligence but they will still have Proctor's to basically verify identity both companies for the SAT or act will have that available to you so I know that's created a lot of anxiety for students and parents but I want you to rest assure that they're prepared to provide testing and as many dates as were originally available to you thank you Stacey and just an additional resource which we do have in our website the nacac website does have a coronavirus resource available that does give you updates on which schools are going test optional for next so that's a great in the website to go to and that is also on our Mainland Regional website under School counseling section A lot of students that I see this is from the high school and the counselor don't really have an idea how many schools they should be applying to you know I I see some that are small as two or three and then I get the full laundry list of schools that they're flying to every school in the Eastern Seaboard out where do you stand in terms of advice of just saying how many schools should a student be applying to come next Fall I think it kind of depend to on where you are in your search process when your applying to schools I know I've met certain students twho have their list of five or six that they're really passionate about these are kind of the schools that they've narrowed it down to at that point and so they're confident going forward with those schools and other all their senior year I might just not have that kind of figured out yet and so I would say in the latter case it would definitely be more to your advantage maybe to apply to more schools I think two things that I wlll also say one is regarding application fees so certain schools will have application fees we don't have it at Xavier it's free to applu to our  university but that's also something to consider is you don't want to rack up the bill too much on applying to a bunch of different universities, so kind of take that into consideration as you're investigating allt these different schools but also make sure when you're figuring out that magic number for you that you have some schools you are pretty confident you can get into certain schools that you know maybe it's a little certain but you know that you still are really passionate about and then the other schools that are more reaches for you so I think as long as you have options for yourself another school that you're passionate about but you know maybe it's a little uncertain whehter you're going to be granted admission as long as you have those then you should be in good shape thanks so much Haley so we have a lot of Juniors now that may have had their eyes on doing an internship this summer things that obviously changed or getting involved in different volunteer activities what advice since they can't volunteer participate in sports or activities right now would you give these students and you feel like this is going to hurt their application I can go ahead and hop it on this one a little bit if that's okay I think the one of the biggest things that we said especially in a couple of the presentations We've all been done before is we're all going through this together we understand that there's there's a pandemic going on the opportunities they were there before for some of lthe past graduationg classes aren't there anymore we certainly understand that and I think there's going to be a lot of essays and supplemental essays that are written upon this but understand this is something you certainly understand the fact that there was opportunities that aren't there however with that being said there still are other opportunities to get involved whether that is doing a virtual virtual service of sorts or maybe doing research on a particular major that you're interested in somewhere. But that there's still plenty of time to do something it's just figuring out what that is I think this is an opportunity and it's probably something we can all agree on it already but reach out to your admissions counselors to the schools that you're looking at what should I be doing Is there things I should be doing that way we can let you know that would be a good idea but again I know we've already talked about it but I want to reiterate we understand what's going on with understand the opportunities that were away from you but this is the opportunity to utilize your time and maybe search the internet or reach out to your college admissions counselor or guidance counselor to see is there anything else that I can do to add to my academic resume great advice. Thank you so much for that and I guess you were taking step further a lot of our spring athletes unfortunately we're not able to participate this season and some of them especially Juniors might have been going towards that big recruiting year to get noticed by coaches that's obviously not the case How will the COVID-19 outbreak impact students and what can I do to get noticed by coaches at this point they lost their spring season adjust this one if that's okay Rutger's University as I mentioned is Division 1 Bid Ten conference so I can kind of speak to a division 1 division 2 one of the first things that we tell students that are looking to play for a D1 or D2 is first of all to register with the NCAA eligibility center they actually might have some advice for you but we typically tell our students who want to get noticed by coach is to send an email to the coach of the institution that you're interested in with your stats and with links to YouTube videos that we might have from your previous games so they can still watch that and get an idea you know how you play even if you didn't get to play this season but that's typically what we will recommend thanks really for be proactive. I'm actually one of the hockey coaches at the University of Tampa so I've been dealing with this spring semester where we missed out on these face-to-face visits these recruiting visit that we only have and really I'm if you're interested I mean granted the University of Tampa division 3 hockey is so it's a little bit different but the rest of our sports are Division II get in touch with the coach but also I have scheduled video calls with one of my recruits for anything else than just touching base and saying hey you know I know your name in your ID that you come up with an NCAA but also here's who I am-welcome, we know what's going on and that's kind of the theme tonight is were very understanding of that don't feel like you're being cheated in that process if your a prospective athlete because coaches kind of feel the same way and we love hearing from prospective athletes thanks. I guess it's important to bevery ProActive at this point and communicate how you can I mean that's all we can really do at this point you know going OK Juniors getting ready to go to the summertime it's all be here before we know it what advice can you give current Juniors regarding the application process for next fall and then also with the with concern to the deadline for early action and early decision applicants that made no not a tested or whatever like I think it's important not to rush I think there is a tendency to get excited and to want to get an answer and we're so used to having everything at our fingertips that there is a sense of I want to get everything in I need decision and many universities will base their merit-based scholarships on your GPA and test scores at the time of your acceptance so by rushing to get a decision you may receive higher test scores at a later date and your scholarship well if you're getting the lower scholarship but you may have a positive decision it may now not be affordable where is if you had just waited little bit longer and tell me you have November test scores maybe the amount of your scholarship would have gone up and now if he comes in an affordable university that you're also admitted to so I think again reaching out to sorry reaching out to the admissions counselor and finding out the timing for each individual University is really important but also using the summer to best prepare your applications and your essay and again prepare for the SAT or ACT I would also just jump in like she said at the end check with each individual College I know for Penn State it's the earlier you apply as long as you apply by that early action date you're going to be in the same boat as everyone else so if you plan on August going to be looked at the same time as if you apply October 30th as long as you hit that date so I would say each colleges different hair by Ashley said if you prepare the summer you're going to enjoy your senior year a little bit more because you're not going to be rushing to get those applications in and you can spend more time on either that essay or filling out financial aid paperwork or anything like that so at least I'm saying I can't speak to every University you do want the application in by that early action deadline but as we progressed into the fault that might be pushed back were trying to be flexible for all of you guys we know it's an unusual year to say the least that might get pushed back to December one so you want to make sure that you're staying on top of it as much as possible yeah I think to add more thing if I can agree completely what Stacy said I think only taking the time to make sure your application is at the strongest when you apply but also to being cognizant of the fact that different schools may not only have different designs for ye programs were honors program specific Majors that are more competative that I'm working out of there so making sure that maybe you know if you get an Excel sheet together keeping all this information so that you're really staying on top of things I think that's been helpful to students before even in your inbox for email it's a good idea to start an inbox with a folder for each University so that the Communications with the admissions counselors could be saved and that way you know even if you're if you're picking up the phone sometimes it's difficult to remember have all these little posted some pieces of paper but if you're communicating via email you can start an individual folder for each University save those and then as you get near the national deadline which for all universities is May 1st you can really start to sit down and look at the information in each of those folders and compare which university is going to be the best academic fit social fit and financial fit because really it has to fit you in all of those areas the organization is key in any of these students out there that might have trouble with that of course you can always go to your counselor and and they can help set you down and help order things out this may be good for emailing and make sure giving you a process that works for you you're on top of things I know you mentioned the college essays this is something that everybody seems like time and is on our side at this point we as much time as we need to do certain things would you recommend students or juniors now to start working on those essays just to get ahead of all things I would say yes if there's anything they say to students at kind of have an idea of what they would like to see I don't think there's any reason to start that hesitation especially as it's probably something really good to speak about right now that's going on I got I think they were probably going to be a lot to ask you this how this affects students whatever it made but I think my biggest recommendation with with writing yes I hit the authentic to yourself write it in your words not somebody else's words of how you think we want we want to get to know you specifically have some of the smaller institutions that are being represented through this webinar we take a pretty holistic approach to the application process that's going to be a line that you hear a lot next year but we really want to get to know who you are was just seeing how we have a 1500 students that's a little under 400 in each class we have the opportunity to get to know our applicants we won I hear your voice I know that this is uncomfortable but show your essay to your parents or your English teacher or your guidance counselor it's it's one thing for us to reread what we wrote because we understand what we're saying you're not the one reading so take the time to prepare that essay be authentic be genuine speak about somethng that made you who you are maybe something specific to what you want to go into major wise and I see this I already know where I'm going but if you're going to send out one essay to a lot of schools and your name of make sure I have gottenessays  that have had Muhlenberg the name of the essay that's not where I work You know the school that I go to every day to make sure to get that right and I was a little thing but it happens more often than not But I guess make sure to have it reviewed by an English teacher or your guidance counselor you can pull off just put UT and it can go to UT or you too I always recommend make it until you know it's easy to to find out what a student's this is our just reviewing your transcript but it's a little more difficult to really learn what makes a student unique and special pointing out leadership pointing out anything it makes you unique that's what universities are going to look for what are you bringing to enhance their campus what why are you going to thrive on particular campus what we're looking for is this the right environment for you to strive and succeed and when we review applications that that's the main goal is this as students that will succeed and graduate in 4 years is the essay really telling us whether or not you are that student so don't tell us about weaknesses that you know we want to know about what is your strength what makes you special what makes you unique what are your lie examples maybe sometimes included resume those are the things we really love to see so I say it's kind of like Shark Tank on paper so it's a little pitch statement about who you are and if you can't think about what makes unique special been great ask parents are his grandparents they can always help you with that one I'm just wanted to add a little something to that I agree with what everyone has said so far but definitely what you want to keep in mind writing your essay is about you so we read alot of essays where students spend a lot of time about why they want to be in a particular campus or I want to be there because you offer this and I can't wait to be part of this you're talking to us about our campus but you want turn that around you don't want to tell us why you want to be on our campus you want to tell us why we want you on our it's about you so just keep that in mind when you are writing your essay thank you so much and just a quick plug we are doing it a free bootcamp with the college essay guy that's going to be June 1st 3rd and 5th so if you not signed up for that already read for me original students please give the Mainland Regional website and again under the school counseling section that is available just the link sign up for that it's a great opportunity to she get that essay started in the right direction all right I'm keeping in line with supplemental materials lets get to letters of recommendation.  What are thngs students should consider when asking for a letter of recommendation when selecting a teacher to write it for them? I can jump on this real quick I always suggest to my students that you speak with a teacher or guidance counselor that knows you well whether you're in their class for multiple years ago or you go after school and get tutoring done again we want to learn about you, everything that is so great about you so make sure that's coming from a teacher that knows you not just someone you pass in the hallways at least at the University of Tampa we accept multiple letters of recommendation so if you have someone at a job or somewhere where you volunteered that knows you very well definitely feel free to reach out to them and ask them to write you a letter of recommendation I think it's also really important to note to ask ask those individuals and give them enough time to write those letters of recommendatoin I get a lot of emails from the student just hurting themselves to get these recommendation and they only ask them a week out of the deadline and thats not going to work think about it if you have 200 students in your school maybe a third of those Miss bass connecting because you also make sure to give them time to just give you the best recommendation possible finally I would agree with everything everyone else has said but I think sometimes it's also really impactful to get not only just the letters of recommendation you have seen me maybe through adversity and their class or another situation high school and speak to your drive your perseverance and ultimately the effort that you're you're capable of putting forth I think that's also often times if you've been struggling in a clas they can elaborate on what's been contributing to that also add as someone who has been asked to write a lot of letters, give a profile of you with some key points you want them to highlight actually helps them to do their job a little bit better and probably get you a better letter of recommendation pro tip is give them a little bit of a resume on yourself and for any of our Juniors that are watching you can do that by going into your Naviance account and we have the my letter of recommendation profile in your survey so please fill that out and you know feel free to reach out to any of those teachers that you've been considering asking you write a letter of recommendation through Microsoft teams or through email because we got we got the time now so let's get the ball rolling finally this to my life before we open it up to Q&A financial aid and scholarships so what do students need to know now about financial aid and scholarships to feel comfortable and where they're at right now and how do they get started with that I'll take a shot at this one first in front of parents that I should probably want to parents are watching take a deep breath we are honest when we tell you that financial aid is not supposed to be tricky or stressful  it's not supposed to be deceptive it's not stop at times it may feel that way but pretty much every university has an admission status able to answer your questions and guide you through these processes I'm sure that you guys have resources in your high school to help guide you through these processes a lot of the feedback that I get is by the time I talk to a parent they've hit a breaking point where they're so stressed out don't. Reach out to the universities and ask them but they're a lot of resources available for financial aid probably more so than any topic that are universities going to give for resources know the big one is probably the FAFSA everybody hears that it's such a complicated form to complete it shouldn't be it's just information about yourself and your parents so don't don't feel like you need to reach out to a family friend pay somebody to help you with a fafsa or guide you through that really that's kind of what universities are for but I can talk for probably 45 minutes on preparation for college and things like that but just as a guide most schools and universities have a net price calculator on their website like University of Tampa does and although it is not an exact estimate of how much you will pay at that school will give you a rough estimate so you can already looking to see how much schools cost for students and parents both have an expectation if you're looking at schools that have a price tag of 60 or $70,000 maybe you want to know that going into it they all that's going to be on the high end schools in state versus out of state costs just want to be very upfront with that and truly that starts now for you all that starts this summer that's when you should really start doing that you should start looking at financial aid after you've been accepted and now it's time to make a decision right you really want to know kind of upfront going to cost but again any time that anyone has questions about financial aid reach out to admission staff we will try our best to make it as easy as possible for you all quick before sorry to cut you off so fast FAFSA is the free application for federal student aid I don't assume everybody knows what these acronym stand for so that's the government's financial aid that you go on and complete that I just wanted to add that there are a few reputable scholarship search engines out there that we recommend and are not all reputable so you really know I know that you recommend our fastweb.com chegg.com as well and now is a good time to start going on those websites like a questionnaire answer a bunch of questions and they will start emailing you scholarships that you might be eligible to apply for and unfortunately I see a lot of students. learn about these scholarship search engines until they're in their senior year and they got their financial planning letter and they realize this is a job and typically a little late start applying for scholarships so now as a junior it would be a really good time to get on those answer the questions and start getting those emails Marcy said there are a lot of great platforms out there to research differt universities or no mercy brought up capex the great resource to use just to learn about other universities you can go on attendance rate to Wu's over the summer so you can learn a little bit about all the universities that are out there and start tearing down that list of universities that you're applying to I just want to the College Board is also a good site for that as well to research colleges and I owe a lot of the application like the common application the Coalition application platforms also have school for researching colleges starting to build a list of colleges you can start at those places great thank you so much so it looks like we have only one question right one question out there so have you heard from Christine Ruth have you heard any ideas about test optional schools will determine Merit Aid and I can be tricky one because a lot of those are based off of test or so has has anybody come up with a plan on how to determine marinade for just schools are down transition to test optional is that the thing that we're just out of learning here they lie yes so we actually Xavier just became a test snow University in the last year so we've been kind of figuring things out this last year and you know we'll be moving into next year as well test optional for us I mean on the holistic review process we're really going to be looking at all those pieces of the puzzle to determine your merit scholarship every student is admitted at Xavier will actually work so this will be based on your GPA and then if you choose to submit your test score with regards and more competitive scholarships so for example we had one that's all the way after school tuition those will require you to submit your test scores just because you can imagine we have a lot of different or something about you so like I said regardless if you're doing well in high school we're going to be using that your transcript in your sat or ACT scores I just wanted to mention that Rutgers is going to go test optional temporarily just for spring 2021 and fall 2021 so because obviously cuz October nineteen and we will be anxious about something else to work out but we will considering students should not take standardized test scores for scholarships great okay so stupid are Junior and senior to your teachers valued more than software your teachers for letters of recommendation spell traffic I don't think so is there a way I think it's really the value is is really more on what they're saying about you as an individual you know someone's just saying so and so is a nice person as opposed recommendation that tells us about someone's academic Rose that's the difference in value not did they teach maybe a class that was more rigorous even or was it taught in the fresh senior versus the junior I'm more interested in the content now if it's talking about someone's character that's different but if it's just saying someone isn't really a wreck I'm looking I'm looking for recommendations that refer to character and ability specifically I'm not interested in what year however I did read a recommendation and it was a very late application and it's not only spoke it was talking about a student's growth compared to their senior year and and the tremendous amount of growth in character and the way that they were approaching your academics in the difference between freshman year and Senior year and it was from a small private school in New Jersey in Monmouth County so when you have a recommendation like that a teacher where you maybe had them both near and in a junior or senior situation where maybe you weren't as mature something like that that's volume that's great advice okay next question what recommendations do you have for service activities during this time with things are so limited oh I know in my area but I mean if he did a lot of them online just go on social media and see what other people are doing it for The Gather some friends obviously you know abide by the social distancing roles and you can still do volunteer service I saw a lot of people who cards to servicemen and women to nursing homes with allowing visitors Hospital same thing so you can put a lot of effort into doing something wrong with City cleanup definitely lots of options and still be charitable in that way I brought this up last week when I was we were doing similar to Ocean City High School this one summer you know since March when when covid-19 hit should not be your only community service and if you waited this point to build your resume of community service or your resume of activities he's kind of missed the boat so you should have had something prior to this point to put certainly as universities are looking at president and your application be understand how how badly your state has been hit and are going to have a ton of flexibility but I do expect the prior to do you know February of this year that you would have some sort of activity whether it be Athletics community service maybe even if he know maybe you were caregiver to a sibling someone in your family I would like to think that you didn't wait until the last minute to participate in some sort of activity so I think I think that's something that you have to keep in mind I agree with that I agree with everything everyone said I just wanted to mention there is a website called volunteermatch.org you can go and more fines different things than they do offer virtual volunteer opportunities as well. it's funny because I have a 14 year old daughter and I feel like she Googled everything except that sometimes you know when it's something I don't know more more academic or something like that she asked me and I why you Google if you Google everything else you know service and they're still stuck on things okay next question so what should sophomores were going to be rising Juniors this year in September due to prepare and what do they focus on this summer towards College Prep College Prep advice for sophomore location where is most sophomores would have to go is it a ton of schools to cross them pulled off their list every school is going to be doing a lot of virtual programming this summer so you're able from again the comfort of your own home go to a lot of information and start now not really big list down to maybe 20 schools that are still interesting to you after the information session you might sit in one and just know that that was not for you or be really interested in maybe one of visited in person it was a virtual experience you were able to go in and say wow you know I never thought about ex University I'm so I think right now you guys are in an interesting position because you can really use this summer to narrow it down and then maybe you don't have to spend so much money applying to a lot of schools or a lot of your parents money driving around to visit all those school so I would definitely take the opportunities to go to those College web pages and sign up for some of these birds will then if you're really not into it you can always just take off inside of that school is right or wrong for you so that's what I would say to prepare for now Samantha at two houses in thousands of colleges across the country especially sophomores God love you guys going into college board sizes that you're looking for a geography where the country going to be located do you want a religious affiliation with the school do you want D1 Sports and I think a lot of times you know 20 schools that everyone else to your high school to find for it but you might discover on there to your point Katie some other schools that you've never heard it before but are really going to be a good fit for you too so I think going on that website is gray and ultimately just keep working hard in the class because ultimately that's really going to translate into scholarship down the line to sew okay wants to nap with those websites were for scholarships I text back fast web capex and Chegg those are three really reputable scholarships I see Junior start looking at now dumbest student with a learning disability discloses that in your essay can it be used in decision-making in a negative way universe a specific program for students with learning differences if a university has a specific program for students with learning differences then the university can take that into consideration legal if the university does not have a specific program then that University is required to not take it into consideration and their whole reason that this became a legal issue was a university did take it into consideration did not succeed the family came back in suits at universe and so if you have a learning difference you don't need to disclose that because most universities are not going to take it into consideration unless they have a specific program for students with learning differences and there is a way for you to look that up look up universities that you have specific programs for students with learning differences however Mercedes or not they have a specific track will offer services for all students with learning differences University LG program however regardless of the services that you may require in University of Tampa does provide those Services you just have to let us know what services you require and that's usually what most universe cities of Ohio great thanks so much they see what looks like that has rounded out the questions so I want to thank you all the panelists that for joining and our students tonight and sharing your experience and knowledge and all of our viewers at home thank you as well we hope everybody continues to be vigilant through this and continues to research colleges and the opportunities that are best for you I know that we will presenting the opportunities available to you the best of weekend please everybody be safe thank you again for tuning in tonight and I hope to see you all very very soon okay thank you got everybody

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