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SAT & ACT Test Dates. Get Your Calendars Updated NOW!

Thursday, June 14th, 2012

SAT and ACT test dates are coming up fast. We’ve listed them below for your easy reference. If you want the name of a top-notch tutor for your student, don’t hesitate to call an expert college counselor at International College Counselors or email us at www.internationalcollegecounselors.com.

THE SAT

Upcoming SAT dates and deadlines

DATES
2012
October 6 Register by September 7 Late Registration September 21
November 3 Register by October 4 Late Registration October 19
December 1 Register by November 1 Late Registration November 16

2013
January 26 Register by December 28 Late Registration January 11
March 9 Register by February 8 Late Registration February 22
May 4 Register by April 5 Late Registration April 19
June 1 Register by May 2 Late Registration May 17

Register for the SAT here

Find out subject test availability

*Learn about making changes to your SAT test center, date or which test you’re registered to take

Visit the SAT home page

THE ACT

Upcoming ACT dates and deadlines

2012
September 8 Register by August 17 Late registration August 18-24
October 27 Register by September 21 Late registration September 22-October 5
December 8 Register by November 2 Late registration November 3-16

2013
February 9 Register by January 11 Late registration January 12-18
April 13 Register by March 8 Late registration March 9-22
June 8 Register by May 3 Late registration May 4-17

International students will find test dates in other countries here

Register for the ACT here

Visit the ACT home page

For a recommendation on a SAT or ACT tutor or to contact an expert college counselor, please call 954-414-9986 or visit www.internationalcollegecounselors.com

ABOUT INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE COUNSELORS:
International College Counselors provides expert college counseling on undergraduate and graduate college admissions, financial aid, tuition, essays, and college applications to domestic and international students. The college counseling and college coaching services are tailored to address the goals, needs, and dreams of each student. Mandee Heller Adler, founder of International College Counselors, is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She also received an MBA from Harvard Business School. Ms. Adler’s achievements have brought her recognition as one of South Florida Top 100 Small Businesses in 2010.

International College Counselors has offices in White Plains, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Miami Beach, Florida; Miami, Florida; Coral Gables, Florida; Palm Beach, Florida; Boca Raton, Florida; Medellin, Columbia and Caracas, Venezuela.

Online Courses: Build a Better College Resume and Improve Your College Application without Leaving Home

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

High School students in their pajamas can enhance their college applications.
 
Colleges love to see that a high school student has taken online courses even if no credit is awarded for the course.   Online courses help your student demonstrate they can do college-level work and show their motivation to learn beyond basic curriculum requirements. By taking online courses, students can also explore interests in a particular profession or field of study. Students can also opt to take online classes that can earn them college credit.
 
Below we’ve listed some courses that can be taken online for credit and no credit. Some are free, some aren’t. This is not a comprehensive list, but a mere sampling.
 
Free online college courses for no credit:
 
Coursera
Coursera offers courses from the top universities, for free to everyone. Current courses come from Princeton University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and University of Pennsylvania. Courses range from the maths and sciences to poetry and world music.
 
edX
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are teaming up to offer free, online, college-level courses under a joint superbrand known as edX. MIT currently offers web-based courses featuring discussion forums, short videos, and laboratory simulations, all under the guidance of MIT professors and teaching assistants. Harvard plans to officially announce its first courses in the summer and begin offering the courses in the fall.
 
Open courseware at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins is a respected medical school offering a selection of popular courses which would be of particular interest to students who plan to study medicine, or a related field.

Udacity
Udacity offers a variety of free online courses and students can sign up at any time. Currently all the courses being offered are computer related, and include: Building a Search Engine, Web Application Engineering, Applied Cryptography and Programming a Robotic Car.
 
Online college courses for credit:
 
Colleges offer independent study online courses that can be taken any time, any place for credit. They also offer a selection of online cohort courses that follow the semester calendar.

California State University
 
Miami Dade College
 
University of Texas
 
 
Online pre-college courses, some for credit and some not
 
Brown University (not for credit)
Students can demonstrate they can do Ivy League level academic work.
 
Northwestern College (for credit)
This is a college in Minnesota, not Northwestern University.
 
Oregon State University (for credit)
Through OSU’s Extended Campus, you can choose from over 40 college classes in subjects like Calculus, Art, German, Philosophy, Wildlife Conservation, Women Studies and Atmospheric Sciences.

Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (not for credit)
Provides students with university-level online courses in mathematics and computer science.

Contact International College Counselors
If you have questions on online courses, credit transfer or college applications and are a client of International College Counselors, please contact our expert college advisors at www.internationalcollegecounselors.com

International College Counselors
3107 Stirling Road, Suite 208
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33312 USA
(954) 414-9986

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