Fall 2010 –
CHAMPS Visits from College Admission Representatives
(Seniors: Please get advance clearance from the teacher of any class you plan to miss, and RSVP to champscollegeevents@gmail.com. )
Friday, September 17, 11:00-11:30am – Miranda Wright, Assistant Director of Admission, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA
Tuesday, September 21, 1:00 – 2:00pm – Chris Wright, Associate Director of Admissions, Emerson College, Boston, MA
Tuesday, September 21, 4:00 – 5:00pm – Lisa Belgam, Assistant Dean of Admission, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Thursday, September 23, 12:30 – 1:30pm - Jennifer Simpson, Senior Assistant Director, Office of Admission, Boston University, Boston, MA
Thursday, October 7, 11:00 – 12:00pm – Tim Ford, Regional Admission Counselor-West Coast, University Of The Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Monday, October 11, 11:00-11:30am – Laura Remy, Assistant Director of Admission, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA
Wednesday, October 13, 1:30-2:30pm, Abby Kelso, Assistant Director of Admission, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Thursday, October 14, 10:30am, Pati Piniero, Associate Director of Admission, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
Wednesday, October 20, 10:30am – Jillian Van Ness, Admission Counselor, Prescott College, Prescott, AZ
Wednesday, October 20, 2:30pm, Kress MacLaren, Admission Counselor, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
(Over)
Thursday, October 21, 1:00-2:00pm, – Diana Smith, Assistant Director of Admission, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, ID
Friday, October 22, 12:30 – 1:30pm, Seth Stewart, Admission Rep, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Monday, October 25, 9:00 – 11:00am – Patricia Decker, Director of Recruitment, New York University-Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
Monday, October 25, 11:30am – 3:30pm – Doran Rivera, Assistant Director of Admissions, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Thursday, October 28, 1:00-2:00pm – Allison Weingart, Assistant Director of Admission, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Friday, October 29, 12:00pm – PJ Petrone, Associate Director of Admission, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
Save the dates!
For CHAMPS Seniors and Their Folks --
Please save two dates on your calendars...
1. Sept. 15th or Sept. 16th (your choice of either night) - Combo Event: Overview of senior-year activities (prom, grad night, graduation, senior photos, etc.) as well as Senior College Night (information regarding college application dates, deadlines, etc.), 6:30pm to 9:00-ish, CHAMPS Gym. I can't stress enough how important it is for you to attend this meeting.
2. Sept. 23rd, Financial Aid Night - Part 1, 7:00pm, CHAMPS Gym - David Levy, Director of Financial Aid at Scripps College, will lead us through a highly informative and useful presentation regarding everything you need to know about applying for college financial aid. He will return on January 13th to lead you through your FAFSA preparation.
I'll email out more detailed notices closer to these events' dates.
Thanks!
Anne
Please save two dates on your calendars...
1. Sept. 15th or Sept. 16th (your choice of either night) - Combo Event: Overview of senior-year activities (prom, grad night, graduation, senior photos, etc.) as well as Senior College Night (information regarding college application dates, deadlines, etc.), 6:30pm to 9:00-ish, CHAMPS Gym. I can't stress enough how important it is for you to attend this meeting.
2. Sept. 23rd, Financial Aid Night - Part 1, 7:00pm, CHAMPS Gym - David Levy, Director of Financial Aid at Scripps College, will lead us through a highly informative and useful presentation regarding everything you need to know about applying for college financial aid. He will return on January 13th to lead you through your FAFSA preparation.
I'll email out more detailed notices closer to these events' dates.
Thanks!
Anne
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Two short reminders!
Hey Y'all,
Just reminding you of two things: Sign up now for your fall testing dates before you forget...SATs are at http://www.collegeboard.com/, and the ACT Plus Writing is at http://www.actstudent.org/ Also, if you plan to apply to one or more UC campuses, you also need to take two SAT Subject Tests (NOT MATH 1C, because they don't accept it). Do it, do it, do it...Also know there's a good (and FREE) online test prep site, which is http://www.number2.com/
Also - don't forget to jump onto The Common Application site at http://www.commonapp.org/ and familiarize yourself...and even get started! There's a great little (very short) Flash movie there that will give you an overview of it, in case you're confused about The Common App's purpose and functions. Ask me questions about it if you want. However, I think you'll see that it's pretty straightforward.
Enjoy what's left of your summer,
Anne
Just reminding you of two things: Sign up now for your fall testing dates before you forget...SATs are at http://www.collegeboard.com/, and the ACT Plus Writing is at http://www.actstudent.org/ Also, if you plan to apply to one or more UC campuses, you also need to take two SAT Subject Tests (NOT MATH 1C, because they don't accept it). Do it, do it, do it...Also know there's a good (and FREE) online test prep site, which is http://www.number2.com/
Also - don't forget to jump onto The Common Application site at http://www.commonapp.org/ and familiarize yourself...and even get started! There's a great little (very short) Flash movie there that will give you an overview of it, in case you're confused about The Common App's purpose and functions. Ask me questions about it if you want. However, I think you'll see that it's pretty straightforward.
Enjoy what's left of your summer,
Anne
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
"Colleges That Change Lives" - Coming to Universal City on August 3rd!
Hi CHAMPS Folks,
I just want to let you know that the "Colleges That Change Lives" program and fair will take place in Universal City on August 3rd at 7:00 pm. By now, you probably know that I tend to encourage most students to seriously consider small liberal arts colleges as they make their college application plans. The group of colleges that belong to this particular organization are often considered to be "the cream of the crop," as they are well covered in Loren Pope's seminal book "Colleges That Change Lives." They will be hosting, and the program begins with a 30-minute presentation on the student-centered college search process, followed immediately with the college fair, featuring representatives from 36 of the CTCL colleges. The programs do not charge admission or require reservation. (What a deal!)
I hope you'll try your best to attend, and here's a link to the particulars:
http://www.ctcl.org/events/los-angeles10
Following is a paragraph about CTCL that I lifted from the group's website:
Colleges That Change Lives, Inc. (CTCL) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement and support of a student-centered college search process. We support the goal of each student finding a college that develops a lifelong love of learning and provides the foundation for a successful and fulfilling life beyond college. We were founded as a result of a book of the same name—Colleges That Change Lives, researched and written by retired New York Times education editor Loren Pope. Mr. Pope passed away in September 2008 but his mission lives on through the work of CTCL.
I'll post this info on the "Siren Song" Facebook page as well. Hope to see you on August 3rd!
Thanks,
Anne C.
I just want to let you know that the "Colleges That Change Lives" program and fair will take place in Universal City on August 3rd at 7:00 pm. By now, you probably know that I tend to encourage most students to seriously consider small liberal arts colleges as they make their college application plans. The group of colleges that belong to this particular organization are often considered to be "the cream of the crop," as they are well covered in Loren Pope's seminal book "Colleges That Change Lives." They will be hosting, and the program begins with a 30-minute presentation on the student-centered college search process, followed immediately with the college fair, featuring representatives from 36 of the CTCL colleges. The programs do not charge admission or require reservation. (What a deal!)
I hope you'll try your best to attend, and here's a link to the particulars:
http://www.ctcl.org/events/los-angeles10
Following is a paragraph about CTCL that I lifted from the group's website:
Colleges That Change Lives, Inc. (CTCL) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement and support of a student-centered college search process. We support the goal of each student finding a college that develops a lifelong love of learning and provides the foundation for a successful and fulfilling life beyond college. We were founded as a result of a book of the same name—Colleges That Change Lives, researched and written by retired New York Times education editor Loren Pope. Mr. Pope passed away in September 2008 but his mission lives on through the work of CTCL.
I'll post this info on the "Siren Song" Facebook page as well. Hope to see you on August 3rd!
Thanks,
Anne C.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
New Facebook Page launched for "Siren Song!"
Hi Everyone,
I'm very happy to announce that I've just launched "Siren Song," my new Facebook page that is primarily targeted at providing college-related information to CHAMPS seniors, but is also open to CHAMPS freshmen, sophomores and juniors...as well as to anyone else out in the world who is interested. So please, please do know that you're enthusiastically invited to friend "Siren Song" on Facebook.
Siren Song's main intention is to be a place where students can find nearly every bit of major and not-so-major information that can help them navigate through the college selection and choice processes. Students, I realize you don't particularly enjoy reading lots of emails, so I'm trying to find a more acceptable and attractive way to communicate with you. Know that I will always send super important information to you through emails. But I'm thinking the Siren Song Facebook page is a great place to also store that information under the "Notes" heading, so there's a readily available source for pulling up past and present handouts and such. Also, it's a good place to store college campus photos that all of us take, pictures of CHAMPS college-related events, questions and answers (like our own little "College Confidential" site), check ins from CHAMPS grads...you know, all of those sorts of things.
Some of you might possibly feel funny about friending Siren Song, knowing that I'm administrating it (and I'm your college counselor at school, thus how weird is that?...etc.). Please know that it isn't my interest or intention to use Siren Song as some sort of "Big Brother" spying device. But if you're at all worried about it, I know that there's some sort of way to block Siren Song from seeing some of your information. Since I'm not a Facebook expert and you probably are, I'm sure you know what to do. So know that I invite you to make public as much or as little as you want. I just care about Siren Song becoming very useful to you, and absolutely nothing else.
Where did Siren Song get her name? Well, it all started with my husband Chuck, whose music publishing company is called Sirensong, Inc." I decided that I wanted to give my Facebook page a name that isn't something as pedestrian as "CHAMPS College Corner," "Anne's College Counseling Page," etc. After all, who'd want to read it if it's presented in that way? So I stole Siren Song from Chuck's "Sirensong, Inc.," because not only do I like it, but I think a whole lot of the college choice, application and selection process has a great deal in common with the Greeks' Sirens, if you stop and think about it....so there you have it.
I hope you'll friend me on Facebook today!
Thanks,
Siren Song (aka Anne Cochran)
I'm very happy to announce that I've just launched "Siren Song," my new Facebook page that is primarily targeted at providing college-related information to CHAMPS seniors, but is also open to CHAMPS freshmen, sophomores and juniors...as well as to anyone else out in the world who is interested. So please, please do know that you're enthusiastically invited to friend "Siren Song" on Facebook.
Siren Song's main intention is to be a place where students can find nearly every bit of major and not-so-major information that can help them navigate through the college selection and choice processes. Students, I realize you don't particularly enjoy reading lots of emails, so I'm trying to find a more acceptable and attractive way to communicate with you. Know that I will always send super important information to you through emails. But I'm thinking the Siren Song Facebook page is a great place to also store that information under the "Notes" heading, so there's a readily available source for pulling up past and present handouts and such. Also, it's a good place to store college campus photos that all of us take, pictures of CHAMPS college-related events, questions and answers (like our own little "College Confidential" site), check ins from CHAMPS grads...you know, all of those sorts of things.
Some of you might possibly feel funny about friending Siren Song, knowing that I'm administrating it (and I'm your college counselor at school, thus how weird is that?...etc.). Please know that it isn't my interest or intention to use Siren Song as some sort of "Big Brother" spying device. But if you're at all worried about it, I know that there's some sort of way to block Siren Song from seeing some of your information. Since I'm not a Facebook expert and you probably are, I'm sure you know what to do. So know that I invite you to make public as much or as little as you want. I just care about Siren Song becoming very useful to you, and absolutely nothing else.
Where did Siren Song get her name? Well, it all started with my husband Chuck, whose music publishing company is called Sirensong, Inc." I decided that I wanted to give my Facebook page a name that isn't something as pedestrian as "CHAMPS College Corner," "Anne's College Counseling Page," etc. After all, who'd want to read it if it's presented in that way? So I stole Siren Song from Chuck's "Sirensong, Inc.," because not only do I like it, but I think a whole lot of the college choice, application and selection process has a great deal in common with the Greeks' Sirens, if you stop and think about it....so there you have it.
I hope you'll friend me on Facebook today!
Thanks,
Siren Song (aka Anne Cochran)
Saturday, June 26, 2010
All the reasons why I'm always begging you to consider going straight to four-year college/university from high school...
Hi CHAMPS Family,
If you know anything about me at all, you know that I am continually trying to persuade every single one of my students to plan on going to a four-year college or university straight from high school...that is, if it's even remotely possible. I do realize the fact that some kids can't do it for a number of reasons, and in some cases, community colleges offer specific career training (for example, firefighting) that is nearly impossible to find elsewhere.
Parents, unfortunately, the current state of affairs that now exists within our community colleges means that they don't generally offer the same educational experience you may have enjoyed some 10 - 25 years ago. For the last couple of years, I've been looking for a definitive piece of writing via my own internet searches that succinctly describes the current state of things within community colleges...and I've finally found it. Accordingly, here's a link to a very recent New York Times article that I strongly urge you to read:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/education/24community.html
Best,
Anne C.
If you know anything about me at all, you know that I am continually trying to persuade every single one of my students to plan on going to a four-year college or university straight from high school...that is, if it's even remotely possible. I do realize the fact that some kids can't do it for a number of reasons, and in some cases, community colleges offer specific career training (for example, firefighting) that is nearly impossible to find elsewhere.
Parents, unfortunately, the current state of affairs that now exists within our community colleges means that they don't generally offer the same educational experience you may have enjoyed some 10 - 25 years ago. For the last couple of years, I've been looking for a definitive piece of writing via my own internet searches that succinctly describes the current state of things within community colleges...and I've finally found it. Accordingly, here's a link to a very recent New York Times article that I strongly urge you to read:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/education/24community.html
Best,
Anne C.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Congratulations Class of 2010!!!
Hi Everyone,
I am so proud of our current seniors! Check out the great colleges where they've been accepted this year:
CHAMPS’ COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES, Class of 2010 As Of June 1, 2010
American University, Washington, DC
American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA
American Musical and Dramatic Acad., Hollywood, CA
Baylor University, Waco, TX
Boston University, Boston, MA (5)
California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA (4)
California Polytechnic University-San Luis Obispo
California State Univ.-Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA (4)
California State University-Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA
California State University-East Bay, Oakland, CA
California State University-Fullerton (4), Fullerton, CA
California State University-Long Beach (4), Long Beach, CA
California State University-Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA
California State University-Northridge (27), Northridge, CA
California State University-Stanislaus, Turlock, CA
Chapman University, Orange, CA (2)
Columbia University, New York, NY
Concordia University, Orange, CA
Drew University, Madison, NJ
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA (5)
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Earlham College, Richmond, IN
Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL
Emerson College, Boston, MA (3)
Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Green Mountain College, Poultney, VT
Goucher College, Towson, MD
Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
Hiram College, Hiram, OH
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA (7)
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
Johnson & Wales University, Providence, RI
Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA
Kenyon College, Gambier, OH (2)
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA (3)
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
McDaniel College, Westminster, MD (2)
Menlo College, Atherton, CA (2)
Mills College, Oakland, CA
Mount St. Mary’s College (2), Los Angeles, CA
New York University
Newbury College, Boston, MA
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA (2)
Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, OK
Otis College of Art and Design (2)
Pace University, New York, NY
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Prescott College, Prescott, AZ
Reed College, Portland, OR
Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ (2)
Ripon College, Ripon, WI
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY (2)
Rocky Mountain College, Billings, MT
San Diego State University (5), San Diego, CA
San Francisco State University (9), San Francisco, CA
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Santa Clara University (3), Santa Clara, CA
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Seattle University, Seattle, WA
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA (2)
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM
St. Mary’s College of CA, Moraga, CA
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Suffolk University, Boston, MA
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (3)
University of California-Berkeley (3)
University of California-Davis (2)
University of California-Irvine (3)
University of California-Los Angeles (3)
University of California-Merced (3)
University of California-Riverside (5)
University of California-San Diego (4)
University of California-Santa Barbara (5)
University of California-Santa Cruz (4)
University of Denver, Denver, CO
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
University of La Verne, La Verne, CA (4)
University of Nevada-Las Vegas (2)
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
University of Redlands, Redlands, CA (3)
University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (2)
University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA (5)
University of Texas, Austin, TX
Utica College, Utica, NY
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Webster University, St. Louis, MO
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Whittier College, Whittier, CA
Willamette University, Salem, OR
Woodbury University, Burbank, CA (2)
I am so proud of our current seniors! Check out the great colleges where they've been accepted this year:
CHAMPS’ COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES, Class of 2010 As Of June 1, 2010
American University, Washington, DC
American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA
American Musical and Dramatic Acad., Hollywood, CA
Baylor University, Waco, TX
Boston University, Boston, MA (5)
California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA (4)
California Polytechnic University-San Luis Obispo
California State Univ.-Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA (4)
California State University-Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA
California State University-East Bay, Oakland, CA
California State University-Fullerton (4), Fullerton, CA
California State University-Long Beach (4), Long Beach, CA
California State University-Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA
California State University-Northridge (27), Northridge, CA
California State University-Stanislaus, Turlock, CA
Chapman University, Orange, CA (2)
Columbia University, New York, NY
Concordia University, Orange, CA
Drew University, Madison, NJ
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA (5)
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Earlham College, Richmond, IN
Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL
Emerson College, Boston, MA (3)
Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Green Mountain College, Poultney, VT
Goucher College, Towson, MD
Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
Hiram College, Hiram, OH
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA (7)
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
Johnson & Wales University, Providence, RI
Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA
Kenyon College, Gambier, OH (2)
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA (3)
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
McDaniel College, Westminster, MD (2)
Menlo College, Atherton, CA (2)
Mills College, Oakland, CA
Mount St. Mary’s College (2), Los Angeles, CA
New York University
Newbury College, Boston, MA
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA (2)
Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, OK
Otis College of Art and Design (2)
Pace University, New York, NY
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Prescott College, Prescott, AZ
Reed College, Portland, OR
Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ (2)
Ripon College, Ripon, WI
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY (2)
Rocky Mountain College, Billings, MT
San Diego State University (5), San Diego, CA
San Francisco State University (9), San Francisco, CA
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Santa Clara University (3), Santa Clara, CA
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Seattle University, Seattle, WA
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA (2)
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM
St. Mary’s College of CA, Moraga, CA
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Suffolk University, Boston, MA
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (3)
University of California-Berkeley (3)
University of California-Davis (2)
University of California-Irvine (3)
University of California-Los Angeles (3)
University of California-Merced (3)
University of California-Riverside (5)
University of California-San Diego (4)
University of California-Santa Barbara (5)
University of California-Santa Cruz (4)
University of Denver, Denver, CO
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
University of La Verne, La Verne, CA (4)
University of Nevada-Las Vegas (2)
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
University of Redlands, Redlands, CA (3)
University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (2)
University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA (5)
University of Texas, Austin, TX
Utica College, Utica, NY
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Webster University, St. Louis, MO
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Whittier College, Whittier, CA
Willamette University, Salem, OR
Woodbury University, Burbank, CA (2)
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