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Pitt Offers the Perfect Rx for Future Pharmacists

Posted on March 19, 2022 by admissions.blog

Students working collaboratively to solve a drug formulary problem at this unique summer program for high school students in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

While summer pre-college programs and camps focusing on business, engineering, and the arts get a lot of attention from high school students and their parents and a lot of promotion from the colleges offering them, not everyone wants to go into business, engineering, or the arts. There are a lot of career options out there, and one that often gets overlooked in terms of pre-professional preparation is that of a pharmacist.

RxPLORE is a summer professional development pre-college program designed by current University of Pittsburgh PITTPharmacy PharmD students for high school students to explore pharmacy as a possible career option. The program has been modified to include both in-person and online options to make it accessible to more students than ever before. Pitt is frequently referred to as the top pharmacy school in Pennsylvania.

RxPLORE introduces students to the fascinating world of pharmacy and highlights the ways that Doctors of Pharmacy are uniquely qualified as vital members of the patient care team. If compounding medications and drug development excite you, then you really should consider this unique summer experience created especially for rising high school juniors and seniors. No previous pharmacy experience is necessary; however, the application requires students to submit an official transcript, one letter of recommendation, and a short questionnaire. Best of all the cost is quite reasonable. The cost of attendance for the in-person program is $450.00 and only $100.00 for the virtual camp. To learn more and apply visit https://www.rxplore.pharmacy.pitt.edu/.

Students learn about the pharmacists’ role as a counselor.

The Best Path Towards a Career in Law

Posted on March 11, 2022 by Morgan Thorpe

Becoming a lawyer isn’t an easy feat. People who pursue this career traditionally have to earn a bachelor’s degree followed by additional years in law school, examinations, and licensing processes. The payoffs, however, are excellent. Besides enabling you to uphold justice and defend those who are wrongfully accused, the median annual salary for lawyers in the US is $126,930. Are you interested in working towards becoming a lawyer? Here are the basic steps you’ll need to take for a flourishing career in law.

Get Into a Good University
Law is an intellectually rigorous career. Even during your time in high school, it’s best to keep your academic performance as high as possible. This increases your chances of getting into a prestigious university like Harvard, Columbia, and Yale, which are all known for having the best pre-law and law programs. Give yourself an edge by taking and acing the most advanced classes, as well as scoring very well in the SAT or the ACT. In doing so, you can prepare yourself for college admissions and get into the university of your choice.

Complete Your Undergraduate Degree
Experts emphasize that getting a pre-law major is not mandatory for admission to law schools. In fact, the American Bar Association or the ABA gives admission to graduates from nearly every area of study ranging from business, mathematics, and journalism. It’s best to focus on coursework you truly enjoy so you can excel in your four-year study and become a more competent law school candidate with a high GPA. However, you could also opt for a pre-law, as these often combine humanities and social science classes, which could be helpful for aspiring lawyers.

Pass the LSAT and Enter a Law School
The Law School Admission Test or LSAT is another core component of the admissions process, as it acts as an objective measure to assess your knowledge. This is why some students spend time during or after university to prepare themselves for the LSAT, which often includes multiple-choice sections and an unscored writing sample. Besides the LSAT, other admission factors may include community service, organization affiliations, and recommendations from educators, alumni, or legal professionals.

Graduate with a Juris Doctor Degree and Pass the Bar
The Juris Doctor is currently offered by 205 ABA-accredited law schools, and there are also numerous concentrations in legal practice to choose from, including corporate law, family law, and labor law. After three to four years of study, you’ll have to sit for the bar exam in your state or the state where you want to practice law. It generally takes a few months to study for and complete the bar exam process, as the state board of bar examiners also considers the candidate’s educational background, character, and competence, before offering full legal licensure.

Get Further Experience
The journey doesn’t end after you get your license, as there are still lots of things to learn. For freshman lawyers, getting an internship is one of the most important goals after law school. It can increase your chances of landing a full-time job, introduce you to the ins and outs of practicing law, and allow you to build a legal network early on in your career.

After working with seasoned lawyers, attorneys may join a firm or open their own law office. Some also pursue further education, with the Master of Law and Doctor of Philosophy being two of the most common choices.

Ultimately, you need to hone your skills through excellence in academics and experience in order to thrive in a legal career. But if you have the passion and dedication for it, then this might be the right path for you.

Can I Work While Studying in Germany?

Posted on March 18, 2021 by KC Raj

Germany is one of the most attractive countries in Europe from both educational and professional perspectives. Germany is known for innovative employment opportunities in automation and engineering fields. In addition to this, Germany has one of the lowest unemployment rates across Europe. Often, students desire to work part-time jobs for generating secondary income while they study in Germany; however, they need to realize that there are different conditions for different students who desire to work in Germany while completing their studies.

If you are a student from the European Union, European Economic Area, Iceland, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, or Norway,  you are treated as a German student; thus, you will have free access to Germany’s job market. Students from these areas can work up to twenty hours a week while studying. Yet, if students exceeds said hours, they would need to pay into the German social security system and encounter a negative impact on their studies.

If you are not from any of the areas mentioned above, then also you can work in Germany alongside studying. You can either work for 120 full days or 240 half days per year. However, if you work as a student assistant or research assistant in your own university, this limit is not applicable to you. You need to notify the Alien Registration Office if you take any sort of job along with study.

It is to be noted that non-students can not work in self-employed or freelancing jobs.

Students have the opportunity to earn up to €450 per month tax-free while studying in Germany. However, if you make more than the stated amount, you will be subjected to income tax practices and automatic tax deductions. Employers can withhold income tax despite paying a lower salary; yet, they can reclaim the deducted amount after submitting the income tax statement.

To find work in Germany, it is recommended that you have proficiency in the German language or have completed an internship during your studies. Additionally, if you study any other language or opt for other preparatory courses, the eligibility criteria for getting jobs may be stricter. International students studying in Germany can work in their lecture-free periods only by getting document consent from the Federal Employment Agency and concerned foreign authority.

Compliance with the Federal Law is essential for international students while working and studying simultaneously in Germany. The core reason for the same is that non-compliance can lead to being expelled from the country. Thus, it is highly recommended that international students explore the regulations applied to their part-time working, conform to the rules, and acquire the permit to work from concerning bodies. It is also to be noted that working within the university has different working hours and wages, as individuals work for longer hours with higher pay. However, getting a part-time job in German universities is not very easy as the quality standards in universities are very high. Outside universities, students can work as support staff and waiters at cafes, English tutors, and production assistants for the number of hours stated above.  

There are ample provisions of free education in Germany as Germans, Europeans, and citizens of any other country can study in Germany without paying the tuition fees. These provisions apply to almost all the study programs functioning in public universities. There is only one condition for international students: they need to get a residential permit before arriving in Germany and finish their course in Germany itself. The core reason for which students from any country can get free education in Germany is that German culture works on the belief that education should not be treated as a commercial product, rather it should be delivered as a noble service; which is only possible by providing free access to higher education to the students. In addition to this, free education in Germany also supports its economic growth and welfare. International students desiring to opt for free education in Germany can contact KCR Consultants to learn more.

In recent years, dedicated legislation was passed that allowed public universities to charge a nominal tuition fee of 1,000 euros annually. However, only a few exceptional public universities can charge this tuition fee. Additionally, Germany’s governmental bodies have also understood the social and economic benefits pertaining to immigration and international students. Concerning this context, Germany has developed an ideal environment for studying, working and staying in the country for international students. Due to this reason, no general tuition fee is charged to foreigners.

You might think that as universities do not charge tuition fees, they might not be very good or lack resources to deliver qualitative education. However, it is far from the truth, as German universities are considered to be among the world’s best educational institutions. Thus, as an international student, you can expect to gain world-class educational facilities and high-quality teaching. Additionally, Germany has strict standards for educational providers, due to which teachers are highly accredited and knowledgeable. A degree from a renowned German university is respected around the world; thus, it attracts varied career choices and professional opportunities for all sort of students.

Additionally, charges that international students might need to bear while studying in Germany are also comparatively very low. The general overview of the cost of living that international students need to bear in Germany is presented in the following table:

Particulars Average Cost per Month
Rent and Utilities 300 to 500 euros
Food and Drink 200 to 250 euros
Health Insurance 100 euros
Phone and Internet 30 euros
Leisure and Hobbies 50 to 100 euros

International students can also opt for scholarships in Germany with the German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD). The German Academic Exchange Services serves as an official scholarship database that allows international students to search for suitable scholarships options that they can opt for concerning their desired services and personal traits. 

Dickinson College updates value of scholarships and more

Posted on October 1, 2019 by Craig

Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Dickinson College’s merit scholarships are designed to recognize exemplary academic performance without regard to financial need, and the Carlisle, Pennsylvania-based college recently restructured the amount each scholarship is worth. Prospective applicants should sit up and take notice!

Only the presidential scholarship requires a separate application; therefore, all Dickinson applicants are considered for the other merit awards by submitting a compelling Common Application.

  • Presidential Scholarship $35,000/year
  • Provost Scholarship $30,000/year
  • 1783 Scholarship $25,000/year
  • John Dickinson Scholarship $20,000/year
  • Benjamin Rush Scholarship $15,000/year

Those are some major awards that would lead to serious reductions in a student’s cost of attendance.

In other Dickinson College news, the college no longer offers Early Action admission. Dickinson will maintain two rounds of Early Decision (with November 15 and January 15 deadlines) and Regular Decision (a January 15 deadline).

In addition, Dickinson has partnered with MyinTuition, which is a quick college cost estimator. It’s a simple and straightforward way for families to anticipate their out-of-pocket cost and get a sense of their eligibility for need-based aid.

Finally, and in many ways most important, Dickinson’s recent development of a Center for Advising, Internships & Lifelong Career Development has strengthened the college’s emphasis on student success by strategically combining Dickinson’s Career Center, Office of Academic Advising, internship/externship programming and alumni career services. The college is already seeing the fruits of this new organizational structure:

  • 98% of Dickinsonians are employed, completing an internship, attending graduate school or pursuing a fellowship one year after graduation.
  • 94% of the class of 2019 completed an internship, research, externship, service-learning or field experience course.
  • Dickinson’s acceptance rates for the class of 2019 are 94% for law school (compared to the 75% national average, according to the Law School Admissions Council) and 95% for medical school (compared to the 39% national average, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges).
  • 100% of the class of 2023 connected with faculty and Center for Advising, Internships & Lifelong Career Development advisors to select classes.

Those members of the Class of 2020 or 2021 interested in Dickinson should consider attending either Dickinson’s October 14 or November 9, 2019 Fall Open Houses, which offer an wonderful opportunity to get to know Dickinson up close.

How to Solve the College Debt Crisis Overnight

Posted on June 25, 2019 by Craig

It’s really simple: the current system many American students use to fund their journey through American colleges and universities is a scheme to concentrate more and more of the nation’s wealth and power in the hands of fewer and fewer people. Under this system greater numbers of Americans who were earnestly trying to best position themselves to be contributing members of society are everyday being subjected to a years-long, decades-long, or lifetime sentence of debt slavery.

Yet, none of this has to be happening, and, in fact, it could all change overnight if politicians in Washington, D.C. took the following three steps to free all Americans from the stranglehold that higher education-government complex currently has on our nation.

 

 

Don’t call me a Director of College Counseling ever again

Posted on June 13, 2019 by Craig

There is no doubt that something is very broken in American secondary and tertiary education. Over each of the last fourteen admissions cycles, I have helped students from around the corner and around the world navigate the college admissions process and tackle the full time of job of applying to American colleges and universities.

During this time, I have witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of students who are unaware of what makes them unique, what their goals are beyond getting into a ‘good college,’ and what actual options even exist for students graduating high school. What feels like an outbreak of complete lack of self-reflection and time dedicated to research and analysis is occurring at the same time as students are more programmed, stressed, miserable, and incapable of demonstrating what was once considered ‘college level’ verbal and written communication skills than I’ve ever witnessed before.

I can’t be a part of this madness anymore without speaking out. As I see it, three major changes need to be made in the way we educate children in this country, only one of which I have true control over as a person tasked with helping students transition from secondary education to what comes next.

  1. Starting in elementary school and continuing right through college, most students are not being taught the basics of writing, reading, and speaking English – whether these students attend public, private, or parochial schools. Students are taught to ape the style or priorities of their English teachers in order to earn an A instead of being taught how to think or communicate in an articulate, agile, and dynamic manner. I am not an English educator, but I can say after seeing thousands of essays produced by high school juniors and seniors and speaking to thousands of high school juniors and seniors that writing, reading, and speaking instruction is not being properly carried out in this country if we are to have any hope of sustaining – let alone building upon – the knowledge and attainment of previous generations.
  2. Students have little to no sense of who they are in relation to the generations of people who came before them and thus they have an increasing inability to put themselves in proper context; the result is that their college essays, whether well-written or not, read like narcissistic one-man plays, and from the admissions results I’ve seen up-close, colleges like it this way! We are doing a generation of our fellow citizens a great disservice when they can’t see beyond their own feelings and experiences, when they don’t know anything about their state’s history, and when they know appallingly little about their country’s history or the history of Western Civilization. Again, very few people in either secondary education or tertiary education seem too concerned about this, which brings me to what I can control…
  3. College is not the end all be all. In fact, for many students a four-year college experience can only lead to a lifetime sentence of debt and ignorance. Who appointed four-year colleges and universities to lord over us as non-negotiables of our human experience? All those who benefit from the higher education-government complex, that’s who. I’m done promoting this perverted ideology. Today, one can learn more valuable and applicable information on YouTube than one can learn by completing many four-year curricula on offer at America’s top-ranked colleges. Career, technical, and experiential education in all of their many forms – trade schools, apprenticeships, gap years, a paying job doing just about anything –  are the best fit for many individuals who’ve just graduated high school. We are doing a disserve to students if we provide only college counseling. We are doing a disservice to students if we only provide college and career counseling. We must educate our students to pursue their own individuality and we must expose our students to the diverse options that exist after high school graduation – from the armed forces and community colleges to gap years and apprenticeship programs. I no longer have any desire to work in a school that trumpets its college admissions statistics, name drops the elite colleges and universities its students have matriculated into, or even slaps the name “College and Career” before the words “Counseling Office” or “Guidance Office.” In all of these scenarios, schools are giving colleges, universities, and employers far too much control of our youth. Students need to be empowered to think big and dream big. That requires not anchoring high school counseling, guidance, or advising to college or career at all.

At a time when long-standing traditions and institutions are actively attacked in our country on a daily basis – mainly from those who’ve been indoctrinated by or are employed by higher education institutions – I’m going to join all those in favor of tearing asunder the part of the past that I don’t like; don’t call me a “Director of College Counseling” or “College Counselor” anymore. It’s giving four-year colleges and universities, corporations, and governments – all of which are in business and are big business – way too much power over all of us. For as long as I continue to help students and families transition from high school to what comes next, from this point forward, if you are going to refer to me as a “Director” of anything, please refer to me as “Director of What Comes Next.” “What Comes Next Counselor” also has a nice ring to it. In return, I promise to provide you a “What Comes Next” guidance experience that exposes you to the full diversity of post-secondary options. Even if 100% of my students continue to enroll in four-year colleges and universities, if my recalibrated approach to post-secondary guidance gives even one student or family pause to consider the benefits of attending a community college while working a full-time job, or pursuing an apprenticeship, or taking a gap-year, or joining the military, or getting a job as a waiter, or earning a degree abroad, or starting a business I will have earned my title as “Director of What Comes Next” and I will feel so much better about myself knowing that I am no longer a cog in the wheel of the American higher education-government complex that has for far too long entranced far too many Americans.

Yet, most of all, I will feel great for the young men and women I work with every day because once they see a four-year college or university is not the be all end all, maybe some of them will calm down, drop out of a few of their extracurricular activities, and use their spare time to pick up and read a book like Great Expectations or Candide or go on YouTube and watch for free the full thirteen installments of Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark. There is no doubt that after doing so students will be closer to gaining a healthy perspective on life than they ever could playing America’s obscene college admissions game.

I may still be the CollegeMeister, but I will remind all with whom I work that where one goes to college (if they do at all) or where one works 40+ hours each week (if they do at all) does not define a person. If anything, the sobriquet CollegeMeister is more apt than ever because I have not just mastered the Byzantine art of getting into the world’s “top colleges;” I have freed my clients, my colleagues, and myself from colleges’ former power over all of us, and I look forward to helping others see the light. No longer will colleges be the masters and the rest of us their slaves.

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