{"id":567,"date":"2020-10-21T22:29:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T05:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/?p=567"},"modified":"2020-10-21T22:29:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T05:29:18","slug":"october-2020-college-counseling-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/october-2020-college-counseling-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2020 College Counseling Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>ESSENTIAL<\/em><\/strong><strong> <em>TOPICS<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How Will Colleges Make Decisions This Year?<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; With so many colleges going test-optional\/test blind, an important metric for admission decisions will be unavailable.\u00a0 How do colleges plan to distinguish between similarly-looking students from different parts of the country, some of whom have been more affected by the pandemic and who may have had their options for education and activities significantly scaled back during the last 7 months?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Majoring in Business\/Entrepreneurial Studies<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Business remains the most popular major on American college campuses, with about a quarter of all bachelor\u2019s degrees awarded in this area.\u00a0What are the career options for students graduating with a business major?<\/li>\n<li><strong>The FAFSA\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Oct. 1st was the opening date to file your FAFSA for 2021-22.\u00a0The FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) is the primary form used by colleges to determine eligibility for need-based aid.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what you need to know.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Making the Most of Virtual Tours\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0Although the COVID pandemic has brought most options for on-campus tours to a grinding halt, this should not prevent high school students from continuing to \u2018visit\u2019 their many colleges of interest in ways that have been second-nature to them for most of their lives \u2013 by doing research online.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Download the Full Newsletter:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/admissionessentials-my.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/p\/pam\/EZEYoS2d1V9AuBVZQ8TRrIIBNCSwJcjdp4YSc88wsmpdfQ?e=uHksEr\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESSENTIAL TOPICS: How Will Colleges Make Decisions This Year?\u00a0&#8211; With so many colleges going test-optional\/test blind, an important metric for admission decisions will be unavailable.\u00a0 How do colleges plan to distinguish between similarly-looking students from different parts of the country, some of whom have been more affected by the pandemic and who may have had [&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\/567"}],"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=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}