{"id":346,"date":"2016-12-06T14:54:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T22:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2017-02-15T13:35:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T21:35:20","slug":"december-2016-college-counseling-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/december-2016-college-counseling-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2016 College Counseling Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>ESSENTIAL<\/em><\/strong><strong> <em>TOPICS<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Planning on Playing College Sports? <\/strong>&#8211; Prospective student-athletes can discover what they need to do now if they plan to compete in college.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Majoring in Communications <\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0Communications is a great fit for students who are interested in conveying information to others in innovative and creative ways.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Write your Way to a College Scholarship <\/strong>&#8211; Writing a really dynamite essay can pay off handsomely, and, unless the topic is unusually specific, essays can often be tweaked to fit the requirements of several contests.\u00a0 Learn how here.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Using PSAT Results in Planning Testing Strategy<\/strong> &#8211; The real value in the PSAT is that it can provide you with a guide to your academic strengths and weaknesses and help you plan which tests to take and when to take them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Your Applications are In &#8211; What Now?<\/strong> &#8211; You&#8217;re feeling the relief\u00a0that comes as you complete your applications, but you&#8217;ve still got things to do as you await admissions decisions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Download the Full Newsletter: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/December-2016-College-Counseling-Newsletter.pdf\">December 2016 College Counseling Newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESSENTIAL TOPICS: Planning on Playing College Sports? &#8211; Prospective student-athletes can discover what they need to do now if they plan to compete in college. Majoring in Communications &#8211;\u00a0Communications is a great fit for students who are interested in conveying information to others in innovative and creative ways. Write your Way to a College Scholarship [&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\/346"}],"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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}