On Friday, March 26, Western Washington University’s Office of Admissions will play host to the Washington Council-sponsored College Planning Day for 700-plus high school students from Island, Skagit, Snohomish, San Juan and Whatcom counties.
The Office of Admissions at Western Washington University is playing host to an overnight visit on Thursday, March 4, and Friday, March 5, for 23 prospective freshmen admitted with highest honors. Admission to WWU with highest honors is determined based on outstanding academic history and standardized exam scores. The visiting students are an elite group—their average cumulative high school GPA is 3.98.
It was a big day Feb. 3 for several local high school senior athletes as they signed national letters of intent.
Following Jake Heaps’ early signing with Brigham Young in December, four more Skyline High School football players committed to various colleges.
Defensive end Cooper Pelluer (6-4, 229) is headed to the University of Washington this fall after turning down an offer to play at Hawaii. Husky head coach Steve Sarkisian called Pelluer just two days before the letter-of-intent signing, with an opening at Washington.
It was a big day Feb. 3 for several local high school senior athletes as they signed national letters of intent.
Following Jake Heaps’ early signing with Brigham Young in December, four more Skyline High School football players committed to various colleges.
Defensive end Cooper Pelluer (6-4, 229) is headed to the University of Washington this fall after turning down an offer to play at Hawaii. Husky head coach Steve Sarkisian called Pelluer just two days before the letter-of-intent signing, with an opening at Washington.
Seven players, including three forwards who earned first-team all-state selections during their prep careers, have signed national letters of intent to play for the Western Washington women's soccer team, coach Travis Connell announced Monday.
The three all-state picks are Brina Sych of Union High School in Vancouver, Kristin Maris of Issaquah, and Anna Geldenhuys of Sammamish High School in Bellevue.
Seven players, including three forwards who earned first-team all-state selections during their prep careers, have signed national letters of intent to play for the Western Washington women's soccer team, coach Travis Connell announced Monday.
The three all-state picks are Brina Sych of Union High School in Vancouver, Kristin Maris of Issaquah, and Anna Geldenhuys of Sammamish High School in Bellevue.
A decade ago, most Seattle-area high schools offered just a handful of rigorous classes that provided a way to earn college credit while supercharging a transcript. And only students with top grades were allowed to sign up.
But in 10 years, the intensive, fast-paced Advanced Placement (AP) classes have skyrocketed in this state.
In 2008, fully one-quarter of Washington public-school seniors took at least one AP test during their high-school years, compared with 10 percent in 1997. In some schools, almost every student takes an AP class in junior or senior year.
In 2008, Dr. Frances Contreras, a professor in the University of Washington’s College of Education, conducted an achievement gap study regarding Latino students.
Hers was one of five studies funded by the Legislature covering the state’s racial/ethnic groups. Finding No. 7 in the study was: “A seamless continuum to college does not exist for Latino students.”
Andrew Entrikin, 18, who graduated last June from Lynden High School, is performing a solo show of his original songs at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, at Three Trees Coffeehouse, 118 W. Holly St. It's the first time he'll be performing his songs in public, although he's been performing in local theater since he was in elementary school. He attends Whatcom Community College and is working on a transfer degree to Western Washington University.
Expectations are sky high on the Elma girls basketball front.
There is justification for the optimism as the Eagles prepare for their season opener at home Thursday against Napavine, last year’s state Class 2B runner-up.
Consider the following:
• The Eagles return four starters from a club that placed fourth in state 2A with a 19-6 record.
• Two of those starters are Katie Colard and Brandi Thomas, last year’s league co-MVPs. The 6-foot-1 Thomas has already signed a letter of intent with Washington State University.
Western Washington University women's basketball coach Carmen Dolfo announced Friday, Nov. 20, that Erin Feeney, a senior guard at Jackson High School in Everett, has signed a national letter of intent to play for the Vikings.
Hundreds of high school students considering their futures flooded the Spokane National College Fair at the Convention Center on Thursday.
Representatives from about 170 colleges, universities and vocational schools as well as military branches were there to entice potential candidates. Sponsored by the National Association for College Admission Counseling, the event included workshops on financial aid, college applications and two- and four-year college transfers.
At least a thousand people could be on the Western Washington University campus Saturday, Oct. 24, for Western Fall Welcome, the largest visit program of the quarter from the Office of Admissions.
The event is expected to bring roughly 400 high school students and 600 parents to campus for a day of getting to know Western. With any luck, a lot of those prospective students will end up applying to Western, says Angela Dittmar Gaffney, a WWU admissions counselor.
From the University of Puget Sound fieldhouse, the future looked bright Monday night.
Wanna-be engineers, actors, musicians, hair stylists, physicians and other teens with college and careers on their minds swarmed the second annual College and Career Fair sponsored by Tacoma Public Schools. Organizers were expecting more than 2,500 students to attend the event, which drew college recruiters from around the Northwest and around the country, along with a few from Canada and Europe.
