MCHS LibraryCollege, Career and Financial Aid Information |
The MCHS Sun Center has found that the sites listed below have helpful
information on colleges, careers and financial aid. Also visit the Sun
Center's website by selecting the Counseling Department from the
MCHS School Website and please also
visist the PUSD Website on
College Planning and Information.
SAT
Prep Center
This page
contains a wealth of excellent-and free-test-prep resources. The
"Mini-SAT" tool is well worth downloading; it provides a
68-question timed practice test and student-friendly SAT tips. Consider bookmarking
the link to the "SAT Question of the Day" page to help familiarize
students with the test format. Created
by: The staff of The College Board, Inc. Don't
Miss: Be sure to download, print, and take a free, the full-length
practice test. Then review a free score and skills report, and
explanations to all test answers at:
www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/prep_one/test.html
Campus
Tours: Virtual College Tours!
Campus Tours is for students who are planning ahead for college, or for
people who just want to see what other places look like. Colleges are
listed by U.S. state; links can lead to VR tours (Virtual Reality),
streamed video, or a website.
Welcome
to OnlineCollegeFair
Free college search service. Chat
with admissions officers, professors, and other students and learn more
about the colleges and the programs you're interested in.
The
College Process
Contains a wealth of information on such topics as: What colleges look for,
Choosing a college campus,
The college essay,
Campus visits,
College comparison worksheet,
The College interview
Sat/act testing and test prep
Community service,
Financial aid
scholarships, NCAA, and website resources.
From the MCHS Counseling Office.
GradeSaver: Editing Essays,
Resumes and College applications
GradeSaver is the only editing service fully dedicated to academic and educational
editing. GradeSaver offers professional online editing and proofreading for high school,
college and post-graduate writing. Our editors specialize in college application essays,
academic essays, theses, cover letters and resumes. GradeSaver is staffed entirely by
Harvard editors who will help you reach your academic and professional goals. Our
service includes a complete grammatical, substantive, technical, and stylistic revision of
your essay or document with a focus on the academic environment.
IvyEssay's Home Page
Everyone should have access to the resources that help create the best
possible applications. At IvyEssays, our staff -- including past admissions officers
and the authors of a book series on admissions essays published by Barron's -- can help
you strategize, construct and polish your application to perfection. In addition to
our editing services, we also offer over 1000 sample essays for your guidance and
inspiration that were written by successful candidates to the nation's leading undergrad
and professional schools.
Accepted.com - Personal
Statement and Application Essay Editing and Consulting
Welcome to Accepted.com. Our purpose: helping you to write the best personal
statement or application essay that you can write. Since we want you to receive the
fat envelope, we are developing an evolving resource providing information on different
aspects of the admissions process to graduate and professional schools.
The Nuts and Bolts Guide to
College Writing
This is a practical online guide that will help you write better college essays.
It offers quick help when you need it most. It's been kept short because we wanted
to encourage students to use it. The bigger a writing guide becomes, the less likely it is
to be used by busy students.
myEssay.com
myEssay.com is the premier admissions essay advisory service. We bring together
experienced editors, former admissions officers, and proprietary methodology to provide
our clients with a competitive advantage. myEssay.com offers superior personal essay
evaluation services and invaluable admissions kits to help applicants through the
application process. The myEssay.com team consists of ten former admissions
officers, two Rhodes Scholars, and numerous editors with professional editing experience.
CollegeGate: Editing and
Free College and Business School Application Essays
While CollegeGate's 100 free sample essays, free essay writing tips, chat rooms,
admissions store, and college search engine should prove useful, our top-notch,
Harvard-educated editors distinguish CollegeGate from all competitors and have made us the
number one online admissions essay resource.
Cambridge Essay Service
Cambridge Essay Service: Personalized college and business school application
essay editing, admission evaluation, essay writing tools, model answers.
Tips
on Writing the Admissions Essay
How to Present the "Real You". Good college application essays are
important for a number of reasons. They portray the writer as a real person, someone
who is
unique and worth knowing.
Edit
Strategies
Edit
Strategies Yale Editors
for College Application Essays and Academic Papers.
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