Friday Updates - 9/30/16

Updates: 

Don't forget Financial Aid Night
Tuesday, October 18th, 6:30pm
Westford Academy Performing Arts Center (PAC)

Students with October 15 or November 1 deadlines should be reaching out to their counselors to set up a meeting, if they have not already. 

Reminder: Yellow Sheets need to be given to your counselor in person at least TWO weeks before the deadline
For October 15 deadlines, ASAP
For November 1 deadlines, no later than October 15
For November 15 deadlines, no later than November 1
All yellow sheets for January 1 deadlines needs to be given to your counselor by December 5. 

College Visits

 *Note: there are no college visits on Monday, Tuesday or Thursday

Open Houses

Becker College 
Fall Open House
Saturday October 15 
Register at www.becker.edu/openhouse or call 877.523.2537

Champlain College
Fall Open House
October 15
Register: http://www.champlain.edu/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/visits-and-events/fall-open-house-2016

Fitchburg State University 
Fall Open Houses
October 29 and November 12
admissions.fitchburgstate.edu/portal/fall_open_house

LeMoyne 
Fall Open Houses
Sunday October 2
Sunday October 23
Sunday November 6
11am - 3:30pm
Register at lemoyne.edu/openhouse


University of New England
Fall Open House
October 29
Register at connec.une.edu or (207) 602-2847

Suffolk University
Fall Open Houses
October 15 or October 29
Register at suffolk.edu/openhouse

Leadership Opportunity

Norwich University
Youth Leadership Conference
December 2-4
January 27-29, 2017
February 24-26, 2017
March 31-April 2, 2017
For additional information and to apply online, visit: http://bit.ly/NorwichYLCW

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/best-of-u-boston-tickets-27068750361

Scholarship Opportunity - Wendy's High School Heisman

https://www.wendyshighschoolheisman.com/

Mid-Week Updates - 9/27/2016

UMass Boston Open House
October 15th
Open House is a great opportunity for students to explore all that UMass Boston has to offer from academics and our Honors College to student life and varsity athletics. Students can register online at www.umb.edu/openhouse. 

9th Annual Merrimack Valley College Fair
Lowell High School
Thursday, Oct. 13
6:30-8:30pm
Parking (for a fee) is available at the Ayotte Garage, next to the Tsongas Center.

Elmira College  
Fall Visit Days
Saturday, October 15th
Saturday, October 29th
Saturday, November 12th
Students can register for a Fall Visit Day by going to elmira.edu

Trinity College
Preview Weekend - November 13-14
Apply at www.trincoll.edu/admissions/campusvisit/pages/preview.aspx
Deadline is October 14th

Stonehill College 
Fall Open Houses
Saturday October 15
Saturday November 12
Register at www.stonehill.edu/openhouse

New England Institute of Technology
Automotive Day: October 21
Construction Day: November 18
Engineering & Communications Day: March 3
Health Day: April 7
www.NEIT.edu/CareerEducation 
 

Class of 2018 - Opportunity

New Yale Award for Juniors

Yale's new Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM) is sponsoring an award for high school juniors: The Yale Bassett Award for Community Engagement. The award will be given to students who demonstrate a record of creative leadership and public service, academic distinction, interdisciplinary problem solving, and experience addressing societal issues that might include, but need not be limited to, race and racism. To be considered for the Yale Bassett Award, interested high school students in the class of 2018 should submit an application, which will include the name of a teacher, mentor, coach, religious leader, community-based non-profit leader, or community member who will provide a letter of recommendation. The application deadline is February 1, 2017. Faculty affiliated with the RITM center will select and notify winners this spring. The Admissions Office does not administer the award, and applying for the award will not affect a student’s chances of being admitted to Yale.
http://ritm.yale.edu/yale-bassett-awards

Friday Updates - September 23

General Updates: 

The link for the presentation from Senior Parent Night has been updated for the Class of 2017. It can be found at http://wa.westfordk12.us/pages/WestfordWA_guidance/index underneath the picture of the department. 

Students with October 15 or November 1 deadlines should be reaching out to their counselors to set up a meeting, if they have not already. 

Reminder: Yellow Sheets need to be given to your counselor in person at least TWO weeks before the deadline
For October 15 deadlines, no later than October 1
For November 1 deadlines, no later than October 15
For November 15 deadlines, no later than November 1
All yellow sheets for January 1 deadlines needs to be given to your counselor by December 5.
 
Information Sessions

Clarkson University
November 1
Courtyard Marriott Boston/Woburn
7pm
November 2
Courtyard Boston/Marlborough
7pm
November 3
Radisson Hotel Manchester
7pm
Register online at clarkson.edu/admissions/reception.php or call 1-800-527-6577


Discover Duke University
Sunday October 16
2 pm
Boston College High School
150 William T Morrissey Blvd. 
Boston, MA 02125
Register at admiss.ugrad.duke.edu/discover-duke


Oberlin CollegeSunday October 2
2:00 - 3:00 pm
Boston Public Library
McKim Conference Room A
RSVP online: https://connect.oberlin.edu/register/boston2016

Washington University in St. Louis
Sunday October 16
7pm
Boston Marriott Newton
2345 Commonwealth Avenue
Newton, MA 

Boston National Portfolio Day
Saturday November 5, 12-4pm
Hynes Convention Center
Free and Open to the Public
More Info & Pre-registration at www.massart.edu/npdboston

Open Houses

Becker College 
Fall Open House
Saturday October 15 
Register at www.becker.edu/openhouse or call 877.523.2537

Fisher College
Fall Open House
November 6
10 am - 2 pm
Register online at www.fisher.edu/openhouse

McGill University
Fall Open House
Sunday October 30
10am-4pm
Register at www.mcgill.ca/openhouse

North Carolina State University (NC State)
Fall Open House
Saturday October 15
9am - 2pm
ncsu.edu/openhouse

Rivier University
Saturday September 24
Register at http://www.rivier.edu/admissions/event-registration/default.aspx?id=2879

Springfield College
Fall Open Houses
Sunday October 2
Sunday November 6
Register to attend at springfield.edu/openhouse

UMass Dartmouth Open HousesSaturday October 15 or Sunday November 6
RSVP at umassd.edu/openhouse by October 7 and October 28 respectively

Union College Open House
Monday October 10
www.union.edu/openhouses

University of Albany
Fall Open House
Saturday, October 15, 2016
www.albany.edu/openhouse

University of California, Santa Cruz 
Fall Saturday Tours on October 29 or November 12, 2016
Reservations must be made in advance online. We recommend that your students sign up as soon as possible, since the tours will fill up fast.

Updates and College Visits 9/19 - 9/23

Hello Seniors and Parents!

Don't forget...the deadline for the October 22 ACT is TODAY!
 

DID YOU KNOW….

If you have a November 1 (or earlier!) deadline, your first quarter grades will not be on the transcript that we send to your college. If the college requests them after receiving your admissions packet, please speak with your counselor.

You can see past blog posts that are specifically relevant to a certain topic by clicking on the labels. For example, if you click "class of 2017 updates", you will see all the blog posts that have this label attached at the bottom.

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College Visits This Week

Open Houses and Information Sessions

Catch the Bus to Champlain
Take a free bus trip to Champlain College - pickup in Burlington or Manchester, NH
November 11, 2016
Register at: http://visit.champlain.edu/champlain-bus-trips?utm_source=button&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=november%20bus%20trip-1%202016

The College of New Jersey
Fall Open Houses: September 17, October 16, November 19
Visit http://admissions.tcnj.edu/visit/

Siena College
Open House: Sunday October 9
10AM-2:30PM
Sign up at: http://info.siena.edu/open-house?utm_medium=email&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=open-house-siena

Bentley University
Open House: September 25, 2016
Register at: http://www.bentley.edu/undergraduate

University of Maine at Farmington
Fall Open Houses: September 24, October 15, November 12
Register online at visit.farmington.edu

Colby-Sawyer Open House
October 29
More information at colby-sawyer.edu/visit

Worcester State University
Open Houses: October 22 and November 19

Springfield College
Game Lab Workshop
Saturday October 22
10am - 3pm
Register at springfield.edu/gamelab

South Carolina School of the Arts
Previews and Audition Schedule
Friday September 23, Friday November 4: Music Preview and Auditions
Friday October 28: Theatre Preview and Auditions
Thursday and Friday November 17 and 18: Music, Theatre, and Art Auditions

12 Tips for Writing Your College Essay

September 13, 2016

 

Your college application essay can be the ticket to the college of your choice. The essay gives you a chance to differentiate yourself and highlight assets that don’t show up elsewhere on your college application. This is your chance to shine so give it the necessary time to make it the best it can be.


1. Focus! You’ve got a total of only 650 words for the essay. That’s the equivalent of slightly less than one single-spaced page. Cut to the chase and keep it simple. Zero in on a specific event or happenstance that illustrates you learned something, gained insight, matured, or progressed in some other way.

2. Avoid chronology. You don’t have the luxury of endless space. Too often, I’ve seen students write beautiful stories that start from some beginning long ago. The essay grows to 1,200 words and now the writer is in trouble and the heart of the story must be cut. That’s a painful process and the essay inevitably turns into something unrecognizable to the author.

3. Mine your brain and everyone else’s. Finding a story topic that reflects something meaningful takes time and deep thought. The most effective process I’ve found for generating ideas is brainstorming. Bounce ideas off your family members and friends – look for people in your life who are deep thinkers, write for a living, or know you well. Each spring and summer I hold workshops for rising seniors for the sole purpose of getting to know them and helping them to know themselves. We sit around a conference table and share information. You’d be amazed at the stories the students have inside them without realizing it.

4. Use metaphors to depict life lessons. Show your readers what you want them to know about you instead of telling them. One student, who was planning to become a lawyer, started her second draft like this: “The girl on the bus was my best client. Whenever the driver reprimanded her, I would step up to her defense. That’s me, defender of the weak or the clueless.” Her first draft began like this: “In the second grade I decided that I was going to be the first women president of the United States. I wanted to be the President because I wanted to outlaw
 smoking, and I wanted to make shelters for black cats.” Do you see the difference?
5. Know your kernel of truth. This is the essence of all good essay writing. There is the outer you and then there’s that kernel inside you from which springs your emotions, beliefs, and philosophies. The most successful essays I’ve ever written have come from a scene or occurrence that stirred emotion inside me – an event or feeling I can’t forget. When you are compelled to write about a topic you will know you’ve found your kernel of truth. It’s the thing that makes you tick. It’s the stuff that makes your friends love you. It’s the engine that motivates you to reach further and try harder. Pay attention to your emotions and you’ll find it.

6. Choose a topic that truly interests you. The Common Application has five essay prompts. Look them over and decide whether you want to write a story about yourself or whether you want to make a persuasive argument. A personal story requires less research but more creativity. A persuasive story requires a lot of thought, research, and accuracy. Regardless of which, your story should stir passion or deep commitment in you. If it doesn’t, search for another topic because if your story doesn’t interest you, it won’t interest your readers and you will be forgotten in the pile of applicant rejects.

7. Just do it. There is no substitute for putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard). Every author will tell you that no book was ever written inside someone’s head. The process of writing helps you reach a deeper level of thinking. This is the area where your subconscious and conscious mind intersect – from where your best ideas gush. Like Dorothy and her red shoes, you have the means for going home, you just need someone to tell you how. Here’s how: write your first paragraph. Then write your second paragraph. Then your third and finally your fourth. Don’t worry about grammar, spelling or typographical mistakes. Don’t try to make it pretty. All of that can come later. For now, just get the story onto the page.

8. Use action verbs. The best writers eschew adjectives. If you do this, you’ll not only present a more vivid picture, but you’ll save space.

9. Revise! The process of revising and editing your essay will almost certainly spur insight that will improve your writing. Pay attention to grammar, syntax, and spelling.

10. Don’t force the ending. Remember when I said you want to find the intersection of your conscious and subconscious mind? That’s where your best conclusions come from, so if you don’t know how to end your story, turn off your brain for a while and let things percolate. Come back to the essay a day or two later and read it through. Sometimes the perfect ending will pop into your head and you’ll know you’ve nailed it.

11. Sculpt your essay. Now that you’ve got it in final format and you think it’s ready to submit, stop. This is when it’s time to see yourself as Michelangelo with the statue of David before you. Chisel away. Scrutinize every sentence. Are there extra words that can be eliminated without changing the meaning of the sentence? Are you using precise language? Have you chosen the best words? Are there redundancies?

12. Envision your story as a circle. Envision your essay as a story that ends where it starts and travels around the page as it unfolds. A story with a powerful conclusion often refers back to the beginning but shows resolution and growth.

Joyce Pellino Crane is the College Essay Confidantè. She is the multimedia news director at Westford Community Access Television and the former editor of the Westford Eagle and Littleton Independent, two community newspapers in Massachusetts. Crane was a Boston Globe correspondent for 10 years and her commentaries have appeared on the Pulitzer Prize-winning paper’s opinion page. She is the recipient of numerous journalism awards including recognition for editorial writing.

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Class of 2017 Updates

Information Sessions

Exploring Educational Excellence: Brown University, University of Chicago, Cornell University, Columbia University and Rice University
Sunday September 25, 2016
2PM or 7PM
Boston Marriott Cambridge
50 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02142
Register at http://www.exploringeducationalexcellence.org

Adelphi University Panther Preview Sessions
Saturday October 1, Monday October 10, Friday November 11, Sunday December 11
9:30AM, 10:30AM, 11:30AM, 12:30PM
RSVP Today at adelphi.edu/info-sessions

Open Houses

Johnson State College
Fall Open Houses: Friday October 21, Saturday November 12
Instant Decision Day: Friday December 9
Performing Arts Festival: Friday October 28
Integrative Medicine Day: Saturday November 12

Penn State Schreyer Honors College
Fall Scholars Day Open House: THIS Friday, September 16
For any questions, email scholars@psu.edu

Boston University Fall Visit Days
Friday October 7 or Friday October 28
Boston University George Sherman Union
775 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA
Check-in begins at 8:30am
Program: 9:00am - 1:00pm
For more information, visit the BU admissions website

University of Scranton Open House
October 23 or November 6
scranton.edu/openhouse

Salve Regina University Open Houses
Sunday September 25
Sunday October 30
For registration and our full calendar of events go to www.salve.edu/visit or call 888-GO-SALVE

United States Coast Guard Academy
Bears Days: September 26, October 14, November 21
Briefing & Tours: Monday-Friday, 1 pm and October 15, 29, November 19, and December 17
Cadet for a Day: November 10, December 5 (8am-4pm)
Cadet for a Day Overnight: September 22-23, October 6-7, 27-28, November 17-18, December 1-2
Genesis: October 16-18 and November 13-15

Adelphi University Fall Open Houses
Sunday October 23
Saturday November 19
10:00am - 1:30pm

Wesleyan University Hamilton Prize for Creativity: Four year, full-tuition scholarship was established in honor of Hamilton writer, composer, and lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda (Class of 2002) and director Thomas Kail (Class of 1999). All incoming first-year students are eligible to apply for the prize, which will be awarded to the student whose work of creative written expression is judged to best reflect the originality, artistry, and dynamism embodied in Broadway's Hamilton. To qualify for the prize, the recipient must be accepted and enroll full-time at Wesleyan University. Interested students can apply online at wesleyan.edu/admission - students must submit an original work of creative written expression.

College Visits September 12-16

College Visit Expectations

•    The College MUST be on on your "Colleges I'm Thinking About" list in Naviance.   We will check before giving you a pass.
•    The college representative will most likely be the person reading your application to that college.  Market yourself positively!
•    See Mrs. Vernalia, Guidance Administrative Assistant, at least one block before the session for a pass in order for us to provide an appropriate space for the visit.
•    Sign up for the college visit on Naviance under "About Colleges" then "Visit Schedule" and finally "Sign Me Up".
•    If you have a major assignment, presentation or assessment in a class during a scheduled visit, you must complete your academic obligation before the visit.  See your counselor with any conflicts.

To Get to Harvard, Go to Haiti?

SundayReview | OP-ED COLUMNIST To Get to Harvard, Go to Haiti?   Frank Bruni AUG. 13, 2016  This summer, as last, Dylan Hernandez, 17, noticed a theme on the social media accounts of fellow students at his private Catholic high school in Flint, Mich. “An awfully large percentage of my friends — skewing towards the affluent — are taking ‘mission trips’ to Central America and Africa,” he wrote to me in a recent email. He knows this from pictures they post on Snapchat and Instagram, typically showing one of them “with some poor brown child aged 2 to 6 on their knee,” he explained. The captions tend to say something along the lines of, “This cutie made it so hard to leave.”  But leave they do, after as little as a week of helping to repair some village’s crumbling school or library, to return to their comfortable homes and quite possibly write a college-application essay about how transformed they are.  “It rubs me the wrong way,” Hernandez told me, explaining that while many of his friends are well intentioned, some seem not to notice poverty until an exotic trip comes with it. He himself has done extensive, sustained volunteer work at the Flint Y.M.C.A., where, he said, the children he tutors and plays with would love it “if these same peers came around and merely talked to them.”  “No passport or customs line required,” he added.  Hernandez reached out to me because he was familiar with writing I had done about the college admissions process. What he described is something that has long bothered me and other critics of that process: the persistent vogue among secondary-school students for so-called service that’s sometimes about little more than a faraway adventure and a few lines or paragraphs on their applications to selective colleges.

It turns developing-world hardship into a prose-ready opportunity for growth, empathy into an extracurricular activity. 

And it reflects a broader gaming of the admissions process that concerns me just as much, because of its potential to create strange habits and values in the students who go through it, telling them that success is a matter of superficial packaging and checking off the right boxes at the right time. That’s true only in some cases, and hardly the recipe for a life well lived. 

In the case of drive-by charity work, the checked box can actually be counterproductive, because application readers see right through it. 

“The running joke in admissions is the mission trip to Costa Rica to save the rain forest,” Ángel Pérez, who is in charge of admissions at Trinity College in Hartford, told me. 

Jennifer Delahunty, a longtime admissions official at Kenyon College, said that mission-trip application essays are their own bloated genre. 

“Often they come to the same conclusion: People in other parts of the world who have no money are happier than we are!” she told me. “That is eye-opening to some students. But it can be a dangerous thing to write about, because it’s hard to rescue the truth from that cliché.” 

Many of the students taking mission trips or doing other charity work outside the country have heartfelt motivations, make a real (if fleeting) contribution and are genuinely enlightened by it. Pérez and Delahunty don’t doubt that. Neither do I. 

But there’s cynicism in the mix. 

A college admissions counselor once told me about a rich European client of his who called him in a panic, wanting to cancel her family’s usual August vacation so that her son could go build roads in the developing world. She’d just read or heard somewhere that colleges would be impressed by that. 

He asked her if she had a roadway or country in mind. She didn’t. 

Richard Weissbourd, a child psychologist and Harvard lecturer who has studied the admissions process in the interest of reforming it, recalled speaking with wealthy parents who had bought an orphanage in Botswana so their children could have a project to write and talk about. He later became aware of other parents who had bought an AIDS clinic in a similarly poor country for the same reason. 

“It becomes contagious,” he said. 

A more recent phenomenon is teenagers trying to demonstrate their leadership skills in addition to their compassion by starting their own fledgling nonprofit groups rather than contributing to ones that already exist — and that might be more practiced and efficient at what they do.

“It’s a sort of variation on going on a mission trip and figuring out that people all over the world are really the same,” said Stephen Farmer, who’s in charge of undergraduate admissions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“I don’t mean to make light of it,” he added, acknowledging that many such trips and nonprofits have benefits, and not just for the college-bound students engaged in them. 

But they’re largely reserved for students whose parents are affluent enough to assist the endeavors. And they’re often approached casually and forgotten quickly. “My concern is that students feel compelled to do these things — forced — rather than feeling that they’re answering some inner call,” Farmer said. 

In many cases they are compelled. Tara Dowling, the director of college counseling at the Rocky Hill School in East Greenwich, R.I., said that many secondary schools (including, as it happens, Dylan Hernandez’s) now require a minimum number of hours of service from students, whose schedules — jammed with sports, arts, SAT prep and more — leave little time for it. 

Getting it done in one big Central American swoop becomes irresistible, and if that dilutes the intended meaning of the activity, who’s to blame: the students or the adults who set it up this way? Dowling noted that without the right kinds of

conversations and guidance, “Kids don’t know how to connect these experiences to the rest of their lives, to the bigger picture.”    There are excellent mission trips, which some students do through churches that they already belong to, and less excellent ones. There are also plenty of other summer projects and jobs that can help students develop a deeper, humbler understanding of the world.  Pérez told me that his favorite among recent essays by Trinity applicants came from someone “who spent the summer working at a coffee shop. He wrote about not realizing until he did this how invisible people in the service industry are. He wrote about how people looked right through him at the counter.”  Helicopter parents, stand down! Pérez’s assessment doesn’t mean that you should hustle your teenagers to the nearest Starbucks. It means that whatever they do, they should be able to engage in it fully and reflect on it meaningfully. And if that’s service work, why not address all the need in your own backyard?  Many college-bound teenagers do, but not nearly enough, as Hernandez can attest. He feels awfully lonely at the Flint Y.M.C.A. and, in the context of that, wonders, “Why is it fashionable to spend $1,000-plus, 20 hours traveling, and 120 hours volunteering in Guatemala for a week?”  He wonders something else, too. “Aren’t the children there sad, getting abandoned by a fresh crop of affluent American teens every few days?”  I invite you to follow me on Twitter (@FrankBruni) and join me on Facebook. Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook and Twitter (@NYTopinion), and sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter.

Welcome Back Class of 2017!

Welcome Back to the Class of 2017! 

Here you will find important upcoming dates and deadlines, College Information Sessions and Open Houses, SATs, ACTs, and more!

SAT Test Dates Fall 2016
October 1 - Late Registration deadline: September 20
November 5 - Registration deadline: October 7, Late registration deadline: October 25
December 3 - Registration deadline: November 3, Late registration deadline: November 22

ACT Test Dates Fall 2016
September 10 - Registration has closed
October 22 - Registration deadline: September 16; Late registration September 17-30
December 10 - Registration deadline: November 4; Late registration November 5-18

Senior Parent Night

The Guidance Department will host a Senior Parent College Night on Tuesday, September 13 at 6:30 PM in the PAC. Please note the start time is 6:30 and not 6:00 pm as published in the newsletter. The students are exempt from this meeting as they will see this presentation during the school day on September 15.

Fall 2016 Open Houses 

NEACAC College Fair
Saturday September 11
2pm - 4pm
UMass Dartmouth Tripp Athletic Center

Tufts University
Arts Open Houses: One will be on the Medford/Somerville campus, where you can learn about majoring in these areas, engaging with them on an extracurricular level, or about pursuing the 5-year combined degree program with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. The other open house will be on the Fenway campus at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, and will cover information on both the 5-year combined degree program and the BFA program. Learn more here, and register by clicking the date you are interested in below.
Arts Open House 2016 dates:
October 7th (on the Medford/Somerville Campus)
October 28th (on the Fenway Campus)

Engineering Open Houses: Tufts hosts special open houses for high school juniors and seniors who are considering applying to the Tufts School of Engineering. Click through for more information on the Engineering Open House and the Women in Engineering at Tufts program. To register, click the date you are interested in attending below. Engineering Open House 2016 dates:
September 16th
October 21st
Women in Engineering Open House 2016 date:
October 7th

STEM Open Houses: Tufts is on the cutting edge of the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, starting at the very top, with President Anthony Monaco, a renowned geneticist. Our students thrive in the classroom and in the lab. Join us for the STEM Open House, a half day program where prospective students interested in science, technology, engineering, and math can meet Tufts professors, tour campus and laboratory spaces, eat lunch in the dining halls, and talk with current students about their research and internship experiences. Learn more. To register, click the date you are interested in attending below.
STEM Open House 2016 dates:
September 30th
October 14th

Miami University of Ohio Bridges Program
The Bridges Program is an overnight experience for high-achieving high school seniors form historically underrepresented populations or who have a commitment to promoting a deeper understanding of and appreciation for diversity. 
November 13-14
Apply at miamioh.edu/bridges - Deadline is September 19, 2016

Hamilton College Saturdays
September 10, 17, 24
October 1, 8, 22, 29
November 5, 12
See schedule online at hamilton.edu/saturdays
Call 800-843-2655 to schedule your interview for a Hamilton Saturday

Trinity College Preview Weekend 
Overnight program November 13-14, designed to give seniors in high school an opportunity to explore both the academic and social aspects of the Trinity community, with a focus on the experiences of our students of color.
www.trincoll.edu/admissions/campusvisit/pages/preview.aspx
Apply by October 14, 2016

Villanova University College of Nursing Undergraduate Open House
Sunday September 11, 2016
To register and find directions, visit www.villanova.edu/nursing

UCONN School of Engineering - Women in Engineering Day
October 13, 2016, 9:00am (Registration begins at 8am)
Register at wie.uconn.edu by September 8, 2016
Any questions email ugprograms@engr.uconn.edu

Skidmore College Open Houses
General Campus: Monday October 10 and Friday November 11
Dance OH: Saturday, October 8
Studio Art OH: Saturday October 8
Science/Math OH: Sunday October 23
Theater OH: Saturday October 29
Find more information at skidmore.edu

Plymouth State University Open Houses
Monday, October 10
Saturday, October 29
Saturday, November 5
Saturday, November 12

Bucknell University
Saturday October 1
Saturday October 29 - STEM Open House
Monday November 7
Find more options and register online at bucknell.edu/visit

Syracuse University School of Information Studies
The ITgirls Overnight Retreat
October 9-10
Apply online: itgirls.ischool.syr.edu
theitgirls@syr.edu

Smith College Women of Distinction 
October 14-16
To learn more and apply, go to www.smith.edu/admission/wod

Seton Hall University
October 16
November 20
February 19
April 23
www.shu.edu/visiting

Northeastern University’s Marine and Environmental Sciences Department
Marine Science Center Open House in Nahant on October 1st (rain date October 15th). This event is free and open to the public. Visitors will see our state of the art labs, meet many of our faculty and researchers, and see what they do. There will be many opportunities to ask questions and explore interests. Students may also learn more about our undergraduate programs – including Marine Biology – at the following link: http://www.northeastern.edu/cos/mes/welcome-prospective-students

Fall 2016 Information Sessions 

Carnegie Mellon University
Sunday, September 11
2pm
Boston Marriott Newton
2345 Commonwealth Ave, Newton, MA 02466

Sunday, October 9
2pm
Hartford Marriott Farmington
15 Farm Springs Rd., Farmington, CT 06032  

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
September 11, 2016
2pm
Kresge Auditorium, Building W16
84 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139  

September 27, 2016
6:30pm
The Wheeler School
Gilder Center for the Arts: Isenberg Auditorium
216 Hope Street
Providence, RI 02906

Middlesex Community College Transition Program
Bedford Campus Center
Thursday October 6
9:00 am - 11:00am
Find more information by searching The Transition Program at www.middlesex.mass.edu
Register by contacting Dyan Darcey at 781-280-3630