College Planning Websites

     

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    COLLEGE TESTING INFORMATION

    SAT & ACT TEST PREP COURSES

    COLLEGE SEARCH SITES

    • Naviance Family Connection – Juniors see Ms. Evans in the Registrar's Office to get your personal code. Parents may log-on as a guest with the password "wildcat."
    • "A GUIDE TO COLLEGE and UNIVERSITY ACCEPTANCES for MCPS & WJ HIGH SCHOOL" on WJ’s Website: statistics on which colleges accepted WJ students.
    • College Board Search
    • www.collegesofdistinction.com A Search-site for smaller, less well-known colleges with special programs
    • Campus Tours
    • theU.com Virtual Tours
    • Academic Common Market (ACM) - It is a tuition-savings program that operates on the premise that if public institutions (not including private institutions) in a student's home state do not offer a degree program major (undergraduate or graduate) that a student intends on pursuing, then s/he may attend a participating ACM out-of-state institution offering the degree of interest through ACM and be granted a waiver of out-of-state tuition charges.    

    Contact Information:  Maryland Higher Education Commission

                                    6 N. Liberty Street, 10th floor

                                    Baltimore, MD  21201

                                    Fax:  410-332-0270

                                    Acm@mhec.state.md.us

     

    ACM - Resources:  ACM/Electronic Campus - www.electroniccampus.org

                               ACM FAQs

                               ACM Application for Maryland

                               Maryland Degree Inventory (Check to see if your program major is available in Maryland) 

     

    GENERAL COLLEGE INFORMATION AND HELPFUL SITES

    ONLINE APPLICATIONS/THE COMMON APPLICATION

    FINANCIAL AID & SCHOLARSHIPS

    SPECIAL INTEREST SITES

    MILITARY COLLEGES

    RESOURCES ON GAP YEAR PROGRAMS

    Books:

    • Taking Time Off by Colin Hall & Ron Liebe
    • The Gap Year by Charlotte Hindle, Joe Bindloss
    • Taking a Gap Year by Susan Griffith
    • Your Gap Year:  Everything You Need to Know to Make Your Year Out the Adventure of a Lifetime by Susan Griffith
    • The Gap-Year Advantage:  Helping Your Child Benefit fro time Off Before or During College by Karl Haigler    

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    LEARNING DISABILITIES

    CAREER BUILDING INFORMATION/JOB SITES