{"id":608,"date":"2021-09-14T17:16:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T00:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2021-09-14T17:16:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T00:16:02","slug":"september-2021-college-counseling-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/september-2021-college-counseling-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2021 College Counseling Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><em>ESSENTIAL TOPICS:<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Back to the Classroom<\/strong> &#8211; After over a year of online learning, most US students will be returning to the classroom this fall. Along with the excitement of seeing friends and resuming activities, many are feeling anxiety about the re-opening and return.\u00a0\u00a0What you need to do to maximize your high school experience.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Majoring in Applied Math <\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0With an average annual income of about $95,000, enviable working conditions, and considerable autonomy, math majors don\u2019t only rank high, but math-related careers occupy over a third of the top twenty careers.\u00a0\u00a0Don\u2019t see yourself as a mathematician?\u00a0 Look instead to the study of applied mathematics.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Get Ready to File the FAFSA\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0The FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) is the primary form used by colleges to determine eligibility for need-based financial aid.\u00a0\u00a0The FAFSA should be filed as soon as possible after October 1st of the student\u2019s senior year, and then yearly while attending college.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what you need to know.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Making the\u00a0Choice to Apply\u00a0ED\/EA\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Over 450 colleges offer Early Decision or Early Action application plans.\u00a0 Some offer both.\u00a0 Before deciding whether you should apply Early Decision or Early Action,\u00a0it\u2019s important to understand the differences between applying through either one of these plans and applying in the regular decision round.\u00a0Here are answers to some of the most common questions families have about Early Decision and Early Action.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Download the Full Newsletter:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/admissionessentials-my.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/p\/pam\/EXTukCPTqXFJiVjQfEL04W0BVFc2Xj94xCLxILXlUR4hBg?e=l7JYAV\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESSENTIAL TOPICS: Back to the Classroom &#8211; After over a year of online learning, most US students will be returning to the classroom this fall. Along with the excitement of seeing friends and resuming activities, many are feeling anxiety about the re-opening and return.\u00a0\u00a0What you need to do to maximize your high school experience. Majoring [&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\/608"}],"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=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.admissionessentials.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}