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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has made significant changes to their recruitment processes, eligibility standards, and gameplay rules this year. These changes address areas from SAT and ACT scores to social media. In past years, a 2.0 GPA was required to be eligible to play sports for athletic scholarships, but an electronic…
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NP ideals: Students bring nobility, potential, humanity and scholarship to nation’s top service academies For applicants, choosing a future at one of the five Federal Service Academies is a unique choice to make, and although the select few students who decide to follow this path are free from tuition induced debt, they must serve…
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Up until now, I always believed senioritis was synonymous with exhaustion. It was a justification for slacking, because if I’ve already worked this hard and come this far, can’t I have a break? But now, in the seventh inning of my senior year, I’ve realized that senioritis is a whole different animal. Senioritis is…
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When I used to think of college, I used to think of “going away”- as if the most important thing was leaving, rather than the college itself. Instead, I’m going 7.2 miles “away” from home to Cal Lutheran. This isn’t because I didn’t get in anywhere else or that I’m afraid to experience anything…
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For twins Zach and Chris Clarke, seniors, it was clear at a very young age they had found their niche on the baseball diamond. “We played football and then basketball for a year or two, and then after that it was basically just baseball,” Zach said. After roughly twelve years playing baseball, the…
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In the pursuit of an athletic scholarship and illustrious professional sports career, many kids are being held back in school. Nowadays, parents who believe they are raising the next Kobe Bryant or Jerry Rice decide to hold back their kids in school so they will have an advantage in sports, competing with kids a…
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Save yourself the trouble and don’t bother applying to a safety school. You have expectations and standards, so why would you settle with something less than you want? Safety schools are giving up these expectations for less. You may be telling yourself, “That’s crazy! What would I do if I don’t get into my…
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The game is changing. After Jan. 23, the College Board will be using a new format of the SAT exam, one that resembles features of the ACT exam. The new SAT will be first administered on March 5. In an announcement event in Austin, TX in March 2014, College Board President David Coleman revealed…
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Starting with the end of the 1950s, the amount of young Americans going to college has skyrocketed; this has been facilitated by teachers pressuring students, universities advertising themselves, and a growing sense of entitlement that sprung up thanks to the growing “give me that” mentality of the post World War II era. The current…