May 1—A.K.A. Candidate’s Reply Date for those of you who don’t know. All those seniors in high school out there who have been waiting for their turn to finalize college plans for the fall—your time is NOW. Make sure you deposit
at only one college. Write every once else who accepted you and/or offered you scholarship money and say: “Thank you for your offer of admission/scholarship/financial aid (select all that apply). However, I will be attending another college in the fall.” This allows schools with wait lists and/or those who re-award scholarships to move down their lists. You saying no to a school might actually be the way that a wait listed student gets into his or her first-choice school!☺ If you are a senior, make like my friend Simba 
and hop to making that deposit.By the way, this may surprise you. The colleges you say no to actually may send you zillion page questionnaires asking why you didn’t select them! How’s that for a switch? After you sweated whether you’d get in, they now want to know why they lost you as a student!
Next week—back to some more career information.
L8R,
Clyde
