For 40 years, the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) has helped five million state residents pay for college, keeping talent here in the Empire State. The current maximum award is $5,000 and the minimum is $500. TAP goes to families that earn less than $80,000 (net taxable income). TAP awards for undergraduate students have not changed in more than a decade.
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Ok, you just got rejected from your top-choice college, now what? It's justifiable to feel disappointed. But with the college response day set a May 1st for many colleges nationally, you don't have much time to recover from the rejection. So, you have to make some quick decisions.
We will share 3 courses of action you should consider if you are rejected from your top-choice college. 1. Go to the next best school you got into. It's likely that you applied to more than one college and that you were accepted to at least one of them. You can even come to love this college as much or even more than your first-choice. Make the best of the situation. One of our students, whom I'll call Nancy here, was rejected into her dream college (a high reach for her) and ended up in her state college. As a freshman, she is loving the college right now; she's extremely happy and doing well at her second-choice college. Nancy will not consider transferring out of this college at all. 2. Go to a community college and try to transfer later. Taking classes at a community college or local state school can always help students transfer to their first-choice college. But there are a few things that students need to know about transfer: not all colleges accept transfer students, such as Princeton University.. Transfer requirements differ from incoming freshman requirements. And the acceptance rate for transfer applicants can be lower than i is for incoming freshman, such as Yale University. 3. Apply to another college with a later deadline. There are some colleges with late deadlines. Colleges with a rolling admissions may still have spots open. You just have to search around and see which schools have late application deadlines. We understand that receiving a denial letter from a top-choice college always hurts, but there's always a great college out there for every student. Students can always make it work, whether they go with their second-choice school, transfer to their first-choice school or apply to a new school entirely. Contact our experts for more information and a consultation. Last week, top high school students from around the world found out whether they were attending one of the eight prestigious Ivy League universities Fall of 2014.
This year was extremely competitive for some of the Ivies, as Princeton University, Cornell University, and University of Pennsylvania had one of their most selective admissions classes ever recorded, and Brown University, Yale University also had a lower acceptance rate than last year's rate. Princeton admitted 7.28% of applicants and accepted 1,939 students out of 26,641 applicants. This was down slightly from their 7.29% in 2013. Cornell admitted 14% this year, taking 6,025 students from 43,041 applications. Cornell accepted 15.2% of applicants last year. While Cornell has the highest admissions rate in the Ivy League, the school dropped their admissions percentage point this year. University of Penn admitted 9.9% applicants to the Class of 2018, where it was 12.1% for the Class of 2017. 3,551 of 35,788 applicants was accepted. Brown University admitted 8.6% acceptance rate, with 2,619 of 30,291 applicants accepted. Last year, Brown had a 9.2% acceptance rate. Yale University was the last to release their admissions data, and posted a lower acceptance rate than last year's 6.72% Yale admitted 6.26% acceptance rate this year, admitting 1,935 of 30,932 applicants. The other Ivies saw their acceptance rate rise from last year. Harvard University admitted 5.9% of applicants from last year's 5.8% admissions rate, accepting 2,023 of their 34,295 applications. Columbia University admitted 6.94% of applicants, up from their record low of 6.89% acceptance rate for Class of 2017. Columbia accepted 2,291 of their 32,967 applicants. Dartmouth College took 11.5% of applicants to the Class of 2018, which was up from last year's 10% admissions rate. Dartmouth received 19,235 applications and accepted 2,220 this year. Other top colleges also released their admissions data this week. MIT took 7.7% of applications. Here's a summary of the data:
Whether you are thinking about applying to the Ivy-League Institutions or your local community colleges, college research is needed. Juniors, after they have taken all their finals and exams (hopefully, their first SAT by May), should begin looking into what types of colleges they are interested in applying to based on their current school records and grades. Knowing what colleges are best suited for them is the key step before applying. Lee Academia consultants are here to help. We have done all the research for you and will continue to stay up to date with current trends and admissions that only a few are aware of. With the March Madness, and seniors finding out their college acceptances or rejections this March and April, everyone becomes stressed and anxious, even the juniors who begin to think about colleges and their future. Do not listen to the myths and gossips out there. Speak to an expert who can guide you and help you narrow down your college options and find a best-fit college for you! Early-Bird Registration for College Consultations begin this April 1st, 2014. After May 30, 2014, regular Registration begins. Consultations are year-round with College Packages for rising Juniors and Seniors beginning in July 2014 to the end of the academic year. Contact us for more information. For most people, the third Thursday of March is just another day. But for medical students, it’s Match Day, the day that determines not only where they will work after medical school, but what kind of doctors they will become.
Matching medical students to residency programs is a complicated system. Here, medical students rely on a computer algorithm to tell them where their first job will be. The result determines not only the type of training they receive, but their medical specialty, where they will live and even the fate of their relationships. Every doctor remembers his or her Match Day. Good luck to the medical students on this Match Day! If you’re a doctor, please share the story of your Match Day experience. Today, College Board announced a fundamental rethinking of the SAT, eliminating essays, ending the penalty for guessing wrong and cutting the obscure vocabulary words.
David Coleman, president of the College Board, criticized his own test, the SAT, and its main rival, the ACT, saying that both “have become disconnected from the work of our high schools.” The SAT’s vocabulary words will be replaced by words that are common in college courses, such as “empirical” and “synthesis.” The math questions, now scattered widely across many topics, will focus more narrowly on linear equations, functions and proportional thinking. The use of a calculator will no longer be allowed on some of the math sections. The new exam will be available on paper and computer, and the scoring will revert to the old 1600 scale, with a top score of 800 on math and what will now be called “Evidence-Based Reading and Writing.” The optional essay will have a separate score. The new SAT will be introduced in the spring of 2016. Starting in the spring of 2016, some of the changes to the SAT will include: • Instead of arcane “SAT words” (“depreciatory,” “membranous”), the vocabulary words on the new exam will be ones commonly used in college courses, such as “synthesis” and “empirical.” • The essay, required since 2005, will become optional. Those who choose to write an essay will be asked to read a passage and analyze how its author used evidence, reasoning and stylistic elements to build an argument. • The guessing penalty, in which points are deducted for incorrect answers, will be eliminated. • The overall scoring will return to the old 1600 scales, based on a top score of 800 in reading and math. The essay will have a separate score. • Math questions will focus on three areas: linear equations; complex equations or functions; and ratios, percentages and proportional reasoning. Calculators will be permitted on only part of the math section. • Every exam will include, in the reading and writing section, source documents from a broad range of disciplines, including science and social studies, and on some questions, students will be asked to select the quote from the text that supports the answer they have chosen. • Every exam will include a reading passage from either one of the nation’s “founding documents,” such as the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, or from one of the important discussions of such texts, such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” What are your thoughts about this new SAT in 2016? Feel free to share your thoughts and/or concerns. The U.S. News & World Report surveyed more than 1,300 graduate schools and programs and ranked them according to their methodology.
They offered a sneak peak of the 2015 Best Graduate Schools rankings. Surveying 453 accredited master's programs in business, the U.S. News & World Report listed in alphabetical order the top 10 highest-ranked business schools: Columbia University (NY) Dartmouth College (Tuck) (NH) Harvard University (MA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) New York University (Stern) Northwestern University (Kellogg) (IL) Stanford University (CA) University of California—Berkeley (Haas) University of Chicago (Booth) University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) The actual ranking and score of these and other graduate schools – including those offering full-time, part-time and executive MBA programs – will be available March 11, 2014, on usnews.com. Use #BestGradSchools. Lee Academia's professional experts can help you with your graduate/professional school journey. Contact us for more information. 1. IELTS, the International English Language Testing System, is an English language proficiency test designed to test communicative English abilities of non-native speakers.
2. The IELTS is a paper-and-pencil test with 4 sections : Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking. The Speaking test includes live, face-to-face interview with a trained ESL professional. 3. A variety of question types are used in IELTS to test a wide range of skills. For example, there are matching, classification, multiple choice, sentence completion, short answers, diagram label completions and more. 4. There are two versions - Academic and General Training. The Academic version is used for higher education and professional certification, while the General Training is used for work or migration purposes. 5. IELTS is accepted by more than 8,000 organizations worldwide, including over 3,000 U.S. institutions. If you would like to know more about the IELTS, contact us for more information. Whether you've been studying for months, or just realized that your March SAT is only two weeks away, speak to us about our 2 week study calendar to help you study smarter.
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Stephenie, having been a tutor/instructor/mentor since 1996, discovered her passion and founded Lee Academia Educational Consulting, LLC. after she left the dental and medical field. She loves teaching/mentoring and counseling her students. Her passion lies in educating others and helping them pursue their educational path. Today, certified in College Counseling and with more than 10 years of experience, Stephenie and her team continues to blog about current updated educational news and events. Archives
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