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Colleges do have base requirements for admission and many colleges require
a base SAT score before you’ll be considered.
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Employer Requirements
SAT scores are also used by colleges to evaluate student needs. High SAT
scores show colleges that you may be eligible to skip basic courses in English
and Mathematics.
Even though the process is controversial, some potential employers take a
look at your SAT scores during the evaluation process before hiring.
This means that prepping for the SAT as well as prepping for college are vitally important for all high school students. While SAT subject test scores may not seem important
for homeschool students, all high school students who are going to college need them.
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All high school students, whether from a homeschool background or from private or public school
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you are going to be getting quite a bit of
work thrown at you all at once. However,
you may need to know more about the
financial aid and the mistakes which you
can make with the papers here. Once you
know these mistakes, it is easier for you to
get them completed and done properly.
MISTAKE 1
Follow the directions on the
FAFSA.
Stacey Kostell, director of admissions, University of Illinois
—Urbana-Champaign
The most common mistakes when filling out the Free Application for Federal
Student Aid (FAFSA) are easily avoided.
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Mistakes on financial aid forms
can cost you money.
The most common mistake with financial aid papers is waiting until
you get your college admission paperwork back to apply for this. When
you do this, the chances are higher for you to miss out on one or another
aspect of your papers and not be able to get your papers. Another mistake people make is waiting of the FAFSA because they think they will
get financial aid in the form of scholarships or other papers. However,
this may fall through and when this does happen, the chances are good
you may have missed an important deadline for your aid. Something else
which is common is waiting for an exact number before asking for aid.
When you do this, the chances are good you will not get this number in
time either. So you should estimate the amount you need. Having the
chance to attend college is a great thing, but for some people they do
not realize they need to have some form of financial aid in place to afford
the school. By knowing the common mistakes, though, it is easy to
avoid the problems and know if you will get your aid properly or not.
MISTAKE 3
Susie Watts, college consultant, College Direction
Financial aid is available on a first-comefirst-served basis. Making mistakes will
delay the FAFSA form and could cause
you to lose out. Here are some tips to
keep in mind:
• When it refers to “you,” it is
referring to the student.
• Don’t leave an income question blank — put in a zero instead.
• Most students under the age of 24 are still dependent.
Don’t wait—estimate.
Betsy Morgan, founder, College Matters LLC
By far, the most common misconception about filing for financial aid is
that one needs to file taxes before applying. Instead, families should
gather up their financial data (pay stubs, bank receipts, etc.) and
estimate.
On both the FAFSA and the CSS PROFILE, there is an option to indicate
that while you intend to file taxes, you have not yet done so. This lets the
colleges know that you are estimating. Try to get as close as you can
to the real numbers, however, or your estimated award will not be accurate.
• Avoid writing wrong social security and driver’s license numbers.
• Remember to sign and date the form.
• Don’t list your adjusted gross
income as equal to total income.
These include:
• Mistyping the student’s legal name, social security number, and birthday
• Forgetting to enter the PIN for the student and parent before submitting, as this serves as the electronic signature for the FAFSA
• Not answering all questions correctly and completely
• Failing to update the family’s financial information immediately upon completing your tax return if an
estimate was given prior to doing taxes
MISTAKE 2
• Remember to list colleges.
MISTAKE 4
Keep track of your FAFSA pin; you’ll need it later!
Jim McCorkell, CEO, adMISSION POSSIBLE ®
As simple as it may sound, students and parents should
write down their FAFSA PIN and store it with the rest of
their passwords where they won’t forget it. Lots of students
waste time trying to find or remember their PIN and ultimately
have to reset it every year—and many parents have to do the
same! This simple step can actually save a lot of time and help
the application process go smoothly in future years.
MISTAKE 5
Complete the process accurately and on time.
Megan Dorsey, SAT prep & college advisor, College Prep LLC
Every year students fail to receive aid due to application errors. A common error is
failing to apply. Some families knowingly don’t apply under the mistaken belief that
they make too much to receive aid. Others fail to complete the application. Some
universities require school-specific forms or the CSS PROFILE, while others don’t.
Some students complete the application but submit incomplete or incorrect information, thus delaying the process. The final mistake is waiting too long to apply.
Financial aid can be like going through a buffet—the people in the front of the line get
their choice of the best offerings while those at the end may be left with table scraps.
To ensure you receive the best possible offer, apply on time and make sure
your application is complete and accurate.
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If you have any questions, be sure to ask a representative in your school’s financial aid office.
That way they will always remember your book, and after all, us novelists are like Dracula, all we want is
immortality. In this sentence, immortality means:
a. the quality of being highly emotional
d. the sate of eternal life
b. the ability to make money
c. the ability to respond to change
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I get a lot of parents wanting to learn how to better
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and Help
communicate with their teen children. Here are a few
key points from an article published by Empowering
Parents:
Depressed Students
by Elton Lin, ThinkTank Learning Lead Academic Counselor
By Laura McMullen
The secret to opening your child’s ears
One fifth of females between the ages
of 14 and 17 reported feeling severely
depressed at some point, according to a
recent Department of Education report,
and there are many factors of high school
life that can lead to such feelings. Teachers, who often see these factors firsthand
in classrooms and hallways, should know
how to interpret the signs of their students’
depression.
Here’s a simple secret that will help you in everything you do
with your teen: No matter how hard it might be, try to start
all interactions with your child with understanding, even if
you don’t fully agree or even quite comprehend what they’re
talking about.
Take the emotionality out of the equation.
Emotion is your enemy when you’re trying to get through to
your teen. Remind yourself that what he says and does is
not a reflection on you. You may not like how he’s behaving—or even how he’s thinking—but keep your emotions out
of it, even if his behavior impacts you.
Ask curious questions…not loaded questions.
Ask your teen for his ideas and be collaborative. Let him
see that you believe in him and that you’re not mad at him
for struggling in his life. When you let him see that you have
faith in his abilities and he has the space to work things out
on his own, you will begin to develop true confidence in him.
Don’t be needy; stand on your own two feet.
Don’t “need” your teen’s cooperation, validation, or good
behavior. As soon as you need something from your child so
that you can feel better, you have put yourself in a vulnerable position because he does not have to give it to you.
When you need something and don’t get it, you will naturally
try harder by controlling and manipulating more. And your
teen will become more and more defiant or passively compliant—neither of which is good.
Don’t do anything until you’re both calm.
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Another rule of thumb is to avoid doing anything until you
and your child have both calmed down. The fact is, you
don’t have to respond to your child when you are upset, or
when your child is upset and in your face. You just don’t. You
can say nothing. You can take a few minutes or more if you
need to. When emotions have evened out, you can sit down
and talk with him. It’s never good to try to bring up a difficult
subject or resolve a conflict in the heat of the moment. So if
either you or your child is upset, pause and come back when
you can address things in a calmer way.
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The Department of Education report
shows that 21 percent of high school
females reported having a Major Depressive Episode (MDE) at one point in their
lifetime, which it defines as a “period of
at least two weeks when a person experiences a depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities, plus at
least four additional symptoms of depression (such as problems with sleep, eating,
energy, concentration, and feelings of
self-worth.)” Only 10 percent of males in
the same age bracket, the report states,
have experienced one of these episodes.
“There are some significant gender differences in the way that psychological distress gets manifested,” says Amber Douglas, assistant professor of psychology and
education at Mount Holyoke College in
Massachusetts. “Traditionally, we tend to
think about females—women and girls—
internalizing their symptoms, and boys
and men externalizing their symptoms.”
Males, particularly adolescent men, are
more likely to act, rather than reflect,
on their feelings, and those actions can
sometimes lead to behavioral problems
or the student being labeled as “destructive,” says Douglas.
For example, while twice as many young
women than men in the Department of
Education report experienced a Major Depressive Episode, the same
report shows that greater percentages of males in grades 9 through
12 have reported high-risk behaviors, such as getting into physical
fights, drinking and driving, and carrying a weapon. The report also
shows that, in 2007, male students were suspended from school at
twice the rate of their female peers.
Douglas says that there are many factors that explain why students
may begin to feel angry in their teens, whether they’re internalizing
or externalizing those feelings. Students are developing their identities
and shifting their support systems from family members to peers, she
says.
“Those peer relationships become very important,” says Douglas.
“[Students are] learning how to negotiate what it means ... to be a
good friend, what it means to be loyal, what it means to successfully
negotiate conflict, and also figuring out romantic relationships as an
additional layer to all of this.”
Sometimes, academic pressure in high school—particularly the stress
surrounding standardized tests—can make some students angry and
depressed, Douglas says.
“It’s great if kids are taking pride in their work,” she says. “It’s not so
great if they’re becoming overly stressed and obsessed with perfection.”
But it can be hard to diagnose overwhelmed and depressed students. Douglas says teachers should keep an eye out for a change
of behavior in the student, such as being less responsive, acting more
withdrawn, or associating with troublemaking peers. Then, Douglas
says, the teacher should privately talk to the student in a “non-threatening” way.
“I think that if the teacher is really concerned, then sure, get the parents involved,” she says. “But I think a lot can be learned by having a
one-on-one conversation.”
In this discussion, Douglas suggests that teachers take into account
the changes their students are going through.
“As students are moving toward adulthood, I think it’s important that
you as a teacher are recognizing that the students get to make some
of their own decisions and they’re negotiating some important stuff.”
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b. a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
c. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking refinement
d. a servant who acts as a personal
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b. complete and wholehearted fidelity to a person or idea
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Individuals accomplish more when they are allowed to pave their own path. Water For
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在我拿PSAT和SAT這中間的一年時間裡，我的分數進步了超過400分，
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No doubt we are all familiar with the stereotype of Japanese
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Kuoikumama
Are you one of those people who really don’t care all that much
about politics and issues in society? Then this word applies to you.
The term came from a political party in Italy, in 1944, which promoted anti-political feelings and a mistrust of public organizations.
The party was called the Fronte dell’Uomo Qualunque or “the
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many people obviously feel this way about politics as is evidenced
by the low voter turnouts that we often see in elections.
Qualunquismo
你是不是像某些人一樣不太在乎政治和社會問題? 那麼這個字就適用於
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織的政治團體。這個團體叫 Fronte dell’Uomo Qualunque 或“百姓的前
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票率有多低就是最好的證據。
Bakku-shan
Here is another great Japanese word with no English equivalent (though I am sure someone can come up with one in the
comments). Bakku-shan is the word for a girl who looks pretty
from behind but ugly in front. I can’t find out whether they
have a word for the reverse situation, or for that other frighteningly common problem these days, where you think a girl looks
good from behind only to discover that she is a he! Modern
fashion has a lot to answer for!
這又是一個很棒但沒有英文同義字的日本文(雖然我確定有人一定可
以適時地說出差不多的字)。 Bakku-shan是指一個女孩從後面看很漂
亮，但從前面看就很醜。我找不到一個字來形容相反的情況，或是
現代常有的恐怖問題，那就是你以為一個女孩的背影看起來不錯，
但轉過身來卻發現是一個男的。現代社會真的有很多需要解釋。
Article cited from (轉載自) http://learni.st/users/cynamen.
horn1/boards/2750-words-that-can-t-be-translated-into-english
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The members of the sales team will receive a
bonus if they sell a total of 185 phones for the
quarter. What must their average sales, in phones
per week, be for the remaining 5 weeks of the
quarter if they are to receive the bonus?
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A tetrahedron was cut from the corner of the cube
shown above, with three of its vertices at the midpoints of three edges of the cube. If tetrahedrons
of the same size are cut from the remaining seven
corners of the cube, how many faces will the resulting solid have?
2. The function g, where g(t) = 0.066t + 0.96,
can be used to represent the relation between grade point average et) and the number of hours
t spent studying each week. Based on this
function, a stu¬dent with a grade point average of 3.5 studied how many hours per week?
(A) 6
(B) 8
(C) 12
(D) 14
(E) 16
(A) 0.96
(B) 1.2
(C) 14.5
(D) 38.5
(E) 67.8
5. In the xy-plane, the point (6, 3) is the midpoint of the line segment with endpoints (x, 5) and
(9, y). What is the value of x+y?
In the figure above, all of the right circular cylin¬ders
have height h. Cylinders I and III have a base radius
of 2.5 and 5, respectively. If the volume of cylinder H is
the mean of the volumes of cylinders I and III, what is
the radius r of cylinder H?
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(B)
(C)
(D)
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Built around an expansive
courtyard, this whimsical daynursery sits in an eclectic Parisian neighborhood next to
an intrusive 12-story building.
Keeping the size of its Lilliputian
inhabitants in mind, the scale
of the project is intentionally
small, and the design focuses
on protection, both from the
encroaching building next door
and the city in general. The
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The Most Beautiful and
Imaginative Public
Schools in the World
世界上最美麗和富有
想像力的公立學校
Parisian)的鄰區。
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Part 2
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ECDM — Paris, France
國裡的人一樣大的
孩 子 ，所 以 這 間 建
French architects described
this elegant, cheerful school
by stating that “the goal is to
propose for this tiny program
a frame of living that generates as much an emotion with
the future occupants (children,
parents, staff) than the local
residents.” A win-win situation
for the kids and the community.
Image credit: Luc Boegly via dezeenc
築有意蓋的小一
點 。而 設 計 的 重 點 在 於 保 護 ，
不讓周圍侵略性高的大樓及
城 市 騷 擾 。法 國 設 計 師 形 容 這
個高雅而愉快的學校為: “我
們的目的是把這個小小的建
築計畫推薦給未來的用戶(孩
子 、家 長 及 老 師 ) ，因 為 這 個 建
築 提 供了比 其 他 居 民 更 多 的
情 感 生 活 ” ，而 這 個 建 築 同 時
為孩子及社區帶來好處。
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