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Post Secondary Planning

Starting to think about life after high school....Upper Merion Area School District is committed to post secondary success for all students. 
 
College readiness is a result of careful, thoughtful planning.  Below are some articles and resources that will help you as you begin to plan for your tomorrow!
 
"What makes a college admissions officer say yes to one applicant and no to the next?"  To answer that question, New York Times education reporter Jacques Steinberg spent a year observing the selection process at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.  The result is his new book, The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College (Viking).  Steinberg shared his learning with TIME.  Click on "Please Let Me In" to learn what one author has discovered.
 
WHAT COLLEGES EXPECT:
Click to learn from the Academic Deans of the Commonwealth Partnership about what Colleges Expect  http://www.lakelandschools.us/do/pkavanagh/what-we-expect.pdf
 
Click on Toward a More Comprehensive Conception of College Readiness, to read a college readiness report prepared for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in March, 2007.