Tips for Students
@TipsForStudentz
This blog is like a survival guide for the student jungle, providing practical advice and a healthy dose of humor. Join us to take control of your student life.
- Heads up seniors: the Common App's Additional Information section is 300 words now, not 650. If you drafted to the old limit, you're cutting. Better to find out today than the night before ED. Full 2026 walkthrough: tipsforstudents.org/how-to-fill-ou… #CommonApp #ClassOf2027 #college
- Howard unenrolled 502 incoming freshmen over a July 10 payment deadline. More than 200 are back. Still open: • UDC deadline extended to Aug 7 • SUNY + CUNY expedited review, $800 credit toward the lost deposit tipsforstudents.org/news/howard-un… #howard #collegelife #highereducation
- An AI detector flagged the U.S. Constitution as 92% AI-written. It was handwritten in the 1700s. That's the same kind of tool deciding whether students "cheated." Why they don't work, and what to do if you're falsely flagged: tipsforstudents.org/do-ai-detector… #AIdetection #StudentLife
- Colleges were supposed to run out of students this year. Some ran out of beds instead. College of Charleston: $2.4M to put 120 students in hotels Texas Tech: housing contracts closed June 1 Penn State: up to 8 students per unit #CollegeHousing #HigherEd
