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[cademy1]

Deferred? Don't worry. Not all is lost. A letter of continued interest is all you need.

A letter of continued interest is a letter that a student writes to a college to express their continued interest in attending the college, even if they have not yet been accepted. Here are some tips for writing a letter of continued interest to a college:

👉🏻Start by briefly introducing yourself and explain why you are writing the letter. Be sure to mention the college by name and mention the program or major that you are interested in.

👉🏻In the next paragraph, explain why you are still interested in attending the college.

👉🏻Highlight your achievements, extracurricular activities, and any other experiences that make you a strong candidate for the college.

👉🏻Next, provide any updates or new information that may be relevant to your application. For example, if you have received any new awards or accomplishments, or if you have any new test scores or grades, be sure to mention them.

👉🏻In the final paragraph, thank the admissions office for considering your application and express your continued interest in attending the college. Be sure to include your contact information and let them know that you are available to answer any questions they may have.

👉🏻Proofread your letter carefully to ensure that it is free of errors and that it is well-written and professional. A letter of continued interest is an important part of your college application, so it is important to make a good impression.

Overall, a letter of continued interest is a way to remind the college that you are still interested in attending and to provide any new information that may be relevant to your application. By following these tips, you can write a strong letter of continued interest that will help you stand out from the other applicants.

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All-of-society approach to multi-hazard early warning systems.

On the occasion of the International Day of Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR), the UNDRR Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism (SEM) is hosting a virtual webinar to showcase different stakeholders’ perspectives, exchange knowledge and best practices, as well as hone into key policy messages relating to the Sendai Framework Target G “Substantially increase the availability of and access to multi‑hazard early warning systems and disaster risk information and assessments to the people by 2030”.

The focus of this year’s IDDRR is very timely as we are witnessing an escalation in weather related disasters that cause billions of euros in damage and threaten livelihoods of people across the world. In 2022 alone extreme weather events have multiplied with on-going droughts across the European continent, wildfires in the USA as well as increasing number of floods in Malaysia, Madagascar, Indonesia, USA, or South Korea that caused loss of livelihoods for thousands of people, left close to a hundred victims. These are but a few examples of growing weather threats all across the world, hitting developed as well as developing countries. As governments declare states of emergency, we are faced with under-preparedness of governments as well as populations to respond and gaps in early warning systems to avert loss of lives and property.

On the other hand, as we develop better early warning systems, backed up by effective risk governance and good communications, we save thousands of lives and enhance our mitigation and adaptation capacities. The recent UNDRR and WMO report found that there is much value in the early warning systems, namely: the cost of a warning system is much lower than other risk reduction measures and the benefits outweigh its costs. However, an effective early warning system requires an all of society approach, where the decision-makers closely collaborate with all the stakeholders through transparent and up to date information sharing, working both ways - from the community towards governments and the other way around.

This webinar, hosted at the outset of the COP27 will invite its participants to approach the multi-hazard early warning systems target of the Sendai Framework from two angles in corresponding panel discussions. The first one will relate to extrapolating the value of early warning systems through sharing best practices in reducing loss and damage as well as investigating methods implemented to ensure that no one is left behind. The second panel will hone in on the links between Paris Agreement and Sendai Framework, particularly Target G, as we approach COP27 in Egypt. It will explore risk informed investment and financing paradigm, and adaptation priorities in line with those set forward by Egypt’s COP27 presidency.

Panel: Implementing early warning multi-hazard systems through all-of-society approach.

The panel will bring together different stakeholders to share their experiences in designing and implementing multi-hazard early warning systems.

Questions

What conditions need to be in place for an effective multi-hazard early warning system?

What value have these systems brought in terms of loss and damage paradigm?

How to ensure that these systems consider the engagement and needs of most at risk groups?

Speakers

Grassroots leader, Huairou Commission 

Sarah Wade-Apicella, Head of Partnerships & Stakeholder Engagement Unit, UNDRR

Representative, HelpAge International (tbc)

Moderator - Ana Gabriele Sabancevaite, UNMGCY, Lithuania

Discussion: Linking SFDRR & COP27 through risk-informed investments and planning.

With Egypt taking the lead as incoming Presidency of the UNFCCC COP, its government has mobilized African states around three key priorities for COP27: centralizing adaptation; Financing climate action; towards just and equitable transition. The panel will invite speakers to explore how these priorities link with the Sendai Framework  Target G and to discuss the SEM policy position at COP27.

Speakers

Ghada Ahmadein, Arab Network for Environment and Development RAED, Egypt

Dan Perell, United Nations Representative at Baha'i International Community, USA

All-of-society approach to multi-hazard early warning systems.

Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism; Hosted by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.

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Early Decision vs Early Action

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It’s that time of the year! Early Action admissions decisions have been sent out!!! Congratulations to the future Redhawk class of 2023 🎊🎉!

If you find yourself having any questions or concerns during this time, please feel free to message me, or email askastudent@seattleu.edu! We are here to help, and are so excited to come alongside you all as you become apart of the family that is Seattle University.

[cademy1]

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Building resilience to climate change and reducing disaster risk and losses.

Building resilience to climate change and reducing disaster risk and losses is vital to save lives and livelihoods, eradicate poverty and hunger and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. António Guterres UN Secretary-General on International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2022.

[vtcollegecounseling]

The College Admission Scandal: my reactions and hope for an improved system

My reaction in a nutshell was patently unsurprised. When the college admission scandal broke, I was inundated with understandably shocked friends seeking my thoughts, and it saddened me to tell them I glimpsed clues of this stuff my entire career in admission, and was even directly asked to participate in indiscretions.

The college admission industry in the US has favored and perpetuated privilege since its nascence. In the past four decades, colleges have made tremendous strides in extending opportunities to those less-privileged, perhaps most importantly students of color and first-generation college-goers, but is still rife with broken systems that advance the privilege and allow for crazy (illegal!) transactions, as seen in this recent scandal.

Ways privilege was perpetuated

I’m fortunate to have attended the nation’s oldest higher education institution. Harvard was founded in 1636, which, as The Social Network reminds us, is older than the our country itself. Thus began an endemic perpetuation of the upper class and upper-middle class, sustained by the following classist (and thereby racist) circumstances:

1. College costed a lot

2. Lofty references were an essential factor

3. Students of different backgrounds had to work for money in their teens, and certainly in their twenties

4. Prep schools were “feeders”

5. Parents who didn’t attend college didn’t understand the process or embrace the concept

6. Students of different backgrounds would not feel comfortable at colleges, anyway

7. The careers that colleges furnished were not welcoming to them

8. Super-affluent or famous parents were able to finagle or buy their kids’ admission

9. Measurements for admission - grades, test scores, high school quality, co-curricular activities - were skewed towards privileged applicants

10. If and when privileged students under-performed, they had access to support, special attention, tutoring, and systems to ameliorate their records

Essentially, college admission was founded on prejudice. The first African American attended in 1823, facing horrible harassment. The first woman didn’t attend until1840, Jewish students faced intimidation well into the 20th Century, and don’t get me started on the hesitant introduction of non-western international students. I could expound on each item on the above list with a dissertation, but I want to get back to the scandal.

What’s been done

We have come a long way. A sea change began in the late 19th Century, and in the past few decades, drastic efforts have been installed to combat this issue. I applaud two key factors in improving the system: the boom of remarkable funding for and improvement in public institutions (both state schools and community colleges), and affirmative action.

IMHO, the latter is a gods-sent elixir for centuries of prejudice. In the context of the allocation of resources, Google defines affirmative action as “the practice or policy of favoring individuals belonging to groups known to have been discriminated against previously.” Colleges adopted this process several decades ago, giving a relative leg-up to applicants of color or at least African American and Native American students. More recently, colleges have extended the preferential admission to “first generation college goers.”

The topic is rife with nuances and controversy, such as the most famous case of Grutter v. Bollinger and the University of Michigan, and the topic remains highly contested, but in my professional opinion, affirmative action in the allocating resources is seemingly the only way for to affect staggering discrepancies as quickly as possible, and I stand by my statement.

Moreover, and only from what I can tell, which may be inaccurate, there has been less wheeling and dealing of affluent parents and elite prep schools “buying” their kids’ admission. But then again, check the news recently.

Problems that remain

We have come a long way since the endemic problems I listed above, but I see still see the following as remaining problematic:

1. College costs a lot

2. Students of different backgrounds might have to work for money in their teens, and certainly in their twenties

3. Parents who didn’t attend college don’t understand the process or necessarily embrace the concept

4. The careers and industries that colleges furnish may be skewed towards the more affluent

5. Super-affluent or famous parents are obviously able to finagle or buy their kids’ admission

6. Measurements for admission - grades, test scores, high school quality, co-curricular activities - are still skewed towards privileged applicants

7. If and when privileged students under-perform, they have access to support, special attention, tutoring, and systems to ameliorate their records

8. Merit awards, not to be confused with financial aid, are granted more heavily to affluent applicants

You’ll notice only a few subtractions from the above list, but did you also notice one major addition at the end? That’s right: although merit awards and financial aid help a fraction of needy students, awards are showered more heavily upon the affluent as reputable colleges channel funds from their endowments to woo “full-pay” families. Thus, privileged students are more apt to attend private institutions that may lead to more successful outcomes, thus perpetuating class status.

Of course, the most alarming problem above is #5. When this recent scandal broke, people were shocked. Were you? I was not, but I’m in the industry. That this recent litany of tragic unfairness was able to occur is proof that the college admission industry still needs major fixing.

Hope

I don’t mean to be so negatron! Indeed, my frustration with the system is one of the reasons I left admission to work on the proverbial “other side of the desk.” I truly want to make a difference in the new age of college admission. Fortunately, I have three chief glimmers of hope:

1. State programs - crazy cool things are happening at public institutions!

a) Honors Colleges alá the University of Oregon Clark Honors College offer tremendously high-quality and challenging academics, as well as specialized student life programming. That they take diversity into account in admission and funding means hosts of under-privileged students can get a world-class education for free. Awesome.

b) State schools in general have tons of opportunities for scholarships for needy students. If a student is a high-achiever, is willing to stay in state, and applies early enough to be considered for scholarships, it’s very possible to get a full ride, or at least to graduate debt-free.

c) Community Colleges might offer four year degrees. The Oregon State Senate Committee on Education will soon be considering Bill 3, transitioning some Community Colleges to to Bachelor degree institutions. This potential is so exciting to me because transferring out of Community Colleges is actually rare despite intentions going in, especially since it’s way harder to get financial aid as a transfer.

2. This scandal - although I am not surprised, I am pleased to see these recent infractions come to light, and so virally. Much like the #METOO movement, I hope this scandal incites further whistle-blowing, exposure, monitoring, and a general movement towards buttressing the system from illegal shenanigans.

3. The “kids” - I know, they’re not kids, but our current bastion of college students won’t stand for their colleges’ infractions. It’s not fair to them, and they’re protesting. On March 11th, students at Sarah Lawrence who call themselves the Diaspora Coalition, occupied part of campus to protest against “injustices imposed on people of color by this institution on a daily basis.” I protested at my boarding school, college, and my graduate school (don’t ask me the causes as I am actually a little fuzzy on those deets). Tianamen Square, Kent State, the Anti-Apartheid movement, the Greensboro sit-ins...all of these protests actually led to change.

In summary, the recent scandal didn’t even make me flinch since I wasn’t surprised in the slightest. It did serve as an effective reminder to me, however, of why I am a college counselor. I honestly want to affect change by helping my students with integrity, and to always work pro bono with at least one “first-gen” college-seeking student. I also need to continue to contribute to the larger convention among my colleagues by attending conferences and meeting frequently with my buddies in admission. The scandal also reminded me to champion the above three glimmers of hope, ignoring the ineffectual noise of the media in the spirit of remembering that it’s all about the kids.