- Grammar
- Compose one simple sentence and share it with your neighbor.
- Pray and Recite
- Note: A number of you have read books from the quarter reading, and some asked about reading books outside of the literary period. I relaxed the restriction on books for you, so if you have read a book from the quarter list already, you may read whatever you wish for your outside reading that quarter.
* Let's Talk about College Essays: Part I: How Colleges Read Applications
- WWII
- The essay became a regular part of admissions after the WWII enrollment explosion.
- How Colleges Read Essays
- They seek to build a scholarly community.
- "Precision Guesswork" (Princeton)
- Recommendations
- Go to your recommenders
- Suggestion: Waive your right to access
- Interviews
- A two-way street (thing of some good questions for your interviewer)
- Roll with the punches
- The Essay
- Can you write? Can you think? What do you care about?
- For some schools, the essay is the most important part of the application, for others the essay may rank 2nd or 3rd (some may have no essay).
- Organization, analysis, interpretation (same skills you've been honing elsewhere)
- The strange part is, you are analyzing your own experience.
- Really, can you THINK?
- Do they hear YOU, or will they mark it DDI (Daddy did it)?
- Planning
- School CEEB Code: 053705
- Can you visit, interview, check in with, find on Facebook...faculty, students, or alumni?
- Who will recommend? How many do you need?
- DI or DII sports? File your NCAA Eligibility form.
- Preregister for CSS/Financial Ad PROFILE
- Naviance
- Early action or early decision? Time to move.
- Oct. SAT?
* AP Practice
* Anglo-Saxon Poetry
HW: Read Through Line 500 of Beowulf
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