Essential College Planning Resources for Families
In addition to the free resources below, clients can access their own private online dashboard, My College Advisor Connection™, and many proprietary online resources to supplement in-person sessions
SAT & ACT Resources
College-Bound Athletes
Miscellaneous
- Book: The Complete Guide to the Gap Year [The best things to do between high school and college]
- National College Fairs
- The Common Application
- National Writing Review
- Hillel
- Essays That Worked
- Women's College Benefits
- Coalition for Christian Colleges & Universities
- Canadian School Rankings
- Native American Resources
Internship/Volunteer Experience Opportunities
The following programs are traditionally full-time, during the summer, or may serve as a gap year (a year after high school but before college). However, you might find some part-time volunteer opportunities here.
- Castle Rock Institute Credit outdoor through Brevard College, North Carolina
- City Year - Changing the world
- Cool Works Jobs and Volunteer work in U.S.
- Dynamy Residential internship program in Worcester, MA.
- Flying Fish This is a sailing license qualification program, plus windsurfing and SCUBA diving.
- Hidden Villa
- Institute for Experimental Learning The Washington Intern program.
- Institute for Tropical Marine Ecology
- International Partnership for Service Learning
- National Association of Service and Conservation Corps
- Northwest Boat Building School
- Peace Corps
- Project USE
- Round River Conservation ecology for credit.
- St. Clares College, Oxford
- Santa Reparata Perhaps the best Art program in Florence, including Photography.
- School of Field Studies
- Seamester A semester sailing in the Caribbean, with marine biology and potential college credit.
- Slide Ranch
- SOLO and Wilderness Medical Institute and Wilderness Medical Associates These are all Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician (WEMT) programs.
- Speos Photo in Paris for credit.
- Student Conservation Association
- Wild Rockies Field Institute
- Wildlands Studies