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Summer Break Ideas for Your Students

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Summer Break Ideas for Your Students

Helping students come up with summer break ideas to help the college admissions process.

Your students may have already begun to approach you in a panic. They’ve looked all over the Internet and in local newspapers for summer internship and job opportunities, but the economy has left little to no choices for high school students.

How will this look on their college applications?

While they may not have work for the summer, there are plenty of other ways that students can make this summer count for college.

Test Prep

Students may balk as soon...

Featured Author: Kathryn Knight Randolph
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Since 2007, Kathryn has been working in higher education – first, as an admissions officer for DePauw University and now as an editor for Fastweb.

Her work in this field has driven a passion for providing students with the most current advice on how to pay for school, successfully navigate the college admissions process, and manage the transition from high school to college student life.

Kathryn holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, where she majored in English Writing and minored in Sociology and History.

She has been working at Fastweb and living in Chicago for four years – minus a seven-month stint abroad in South America and Europe. Besides traveling, she loves running, reading fiction classics and cooking. Follow her on Twitter at @KRandolph37.

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    Tatiana201b

    10 months ago

    Summer is a great time to prepare for college! Im currently volunteering at a hospital two times a week for three hours and i am also doing an internship in center city . Hopefully this will look great on my college application/resume.