{"id":612,"date":"2021-11-15T16:12:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T00:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2021-11-15T16:12:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T00:12:03","slug":"november-2021-college-counseling-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/november-2021-college-counseling-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2021 College Counseling Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><em>ESSENTIAL TOPICS:<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why are You Applying Here?<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; It may be a shorter piece, but the &#8220;WHY US&#8221; essay is\u00a0as important as the long Personal Statement essay. Admission officers at many colleges believe the response to this question tells them how much effort a student has put into getting to know the college and whether she is a serious applicant who is likely to matriculate. Get tips here.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Majoring in Nursing\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0Nursing is hot! According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 194,500 nursing positions will be created each year over the next decade. Finding a job will not be an issue for Registered Nurses anytime soon. Competition for nursing school is fierce but there are various paths to this career to consider.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Merit Awards Make Private Colleges Affordable\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; At private colleges, most students successfully complete their degree requirements in four years.\u00a0\u00a0So, don\u2019t let the sticker price of private colleges keep you from applying; merit scholarships may make them more affordable than you think.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Social Media &#8211; Think Before You Post &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Applicants often want to know if colleges are fishing in the social media waters. Are colleges and universities proactively seeking out information on prospective applicants or not?<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is Holistic Admissions?\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0With the majority of US colleges now offering test-optional admission (at least for the current year), additional factors take on new importance in holistic admissions. So, what else counts?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Download the Full Newsletter:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/admissionessentials-my.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/p\/pam\/EY8zw8tcQERPpS6_kdWMRH8BsO1chDeHlmQrPFkGG7AMJg?e=hxyg7m\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESSENTIAL TOPICS: Why are You Applying Here?\u00a0&#8211; It may be a shorter piece, but the &#8220;WHY US&#8221; essay is\u00a0as important as the long Personal Statement essay. Admission officers at many colleges believe the response to this question tells them how much effort a student has put into getting to know the college and whether she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}