More Than a Test Score

It has been far too long since I last wrote on this blog. My apologies for being silent and I will try to write more often especially now that school has either started, or is about to begin. Speaking of, I've started a new job at the Williamsburg Charter High School in Brooklyn, NY and it's amazing. Hi to all my students at the WCHS!

 Now, back to business. Let's talk about senior year and starting the college selection process…

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ZOMG!

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Nancy, a Zinch grasshopper, recently asked me a question some of you might also be having: “I really, really want to apply ED [early decision] to my dream school but I’m worried I might not get the sufficient financial aid that I need and then I would be in a tough pickel. What would be your advice? To apply ED to that one college or apply to various colleges through regular decision and wait to see what I get offered?”

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We all know that being a high school senior can be very expensive and in the end, senior year will most likely empty out your pockets.

As we return back to school, ready to face senior year, most of us are full of pride from almost having survived the majority of high school. We are now the big kids on campus therefore we somehow must devise a way to let the entire student population at our school know that we are seniors, the rockin’ class of 2009. What is, you ask, the easiest way to show off our senior-ness?

BY WEARING CROWNS!!

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The Princeton Review recently debuted their famous college ranks with every category you could ever imagine from “Happiest Students” to worst college foods (oh noo)…

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