William and Mary/St. Andrews Dual Degree Program

Thinking about studying abroad in college? How about earning a Joint degree and spending TWO years abroad?

The College of William and Mary has joined forced with the University of St. Andrews in Scotland (alma mater of Prince William and Princess Catherine) to create the St. Andrews William and Mary Joint Degree Program.

For more information about the program and application details, visit http://www.wm.edu/sites/standrews/.

This sounds like an amazing opportunity that I'm adding to my "virtual list" of colleges I would apply to if I had it all to do over again. (The list is very long).

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Auburn Summer Mailing

Auburn sent us a mailing with this year's deadlines and admissions info.

Deadlines!

There is no separate application for Early Action consideration to Auburn. Students who meet the Early Action crieria will be accepted on a weekly basis from October 15th to February 1. Early Action decisions are strictly academic, based on a combination of GPA and ACT or SAT score.

Admission decisions based on criteria other than Early Action criteria are determined in three rounds beginning 11/15. First round decisions will be made 11/15 for students who complete an application by 11/1. Second round decisions will be made 12/15 for students who complete an application by 12/1. Third round and final decisions will be made by 2/15 for all students who complete an application by 2/1. THE PRIORITY APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION DEADLINE IS 2/1.

Impressive News: Auburn is ranked fifth out of 126 public institutions in the enrollment of National Merit Scholars. They are ranked 16th overall (private colleges included) out of 343 institutions where these scholars are enrolled. Wow!

2010-2011 Auburn Freshman Class Profile

Average GPA: 3.79
Middle 50% ACT: 24-30
Middle 50% SAT: 1100-1320

See your college counselor with questions!

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WE ARE BACK!

This week marks the end of summer vacation for the college counseling staff. We arrived back at work on Wednesday to our very steamy Fennessey offices and lots and lots of mail/email/voicemail!

If you've been in touch with us during the summer and haven't heard back, we'll be in touch as soon as we can. It's a little daunting to sort through the backlog. If you'd like to come in for an appointment this week or next, please get in touch ASAP as our schedules are filling up. We usually get lots of requests for meeting the week of August 29th when you all are here to pick up your schedules and buy your books but we are booked with faculty meetings that week. So.... see us by August 26th or sign up on our calendars the first week of school.

We will be posting about what we unearth in the mail bin here on the blog. Sign up to follow the blog for the school year so you don't miss anything! We'll be back in the saddle with the Twitter updates soon as well. I know you're on the edge of your seats.

 Enjoy the last weeks of summer and buckle down on that summer reading! And start the Common Application! And register for the SAT's! Just kidding. Sort of.

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