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 JUNIORS:Are you taking the SAT for the first or second time?  Here's something the test experts won't tell you.  UNDERCLASSMEN:Here's what you can do to prepare for college right now. NEWS/EVENTS:In the wake of news that famed Virginia Intermont College would close this summer, shuttering their champion equestrian program, it was announced yesterday that Andrews Osborne Academy (middle and high school) would convert their equestrian facilities into an athletic complex and no longer offer riding.It's disheartening news to say the least and I'll continue to keep all clients appraised of further developments.Meanwhile, in GOOD news, Ferrum College in Virginia brought back their IHSA team after a 14 year hiatus.  I loved my visit to Ferrum last fall and hope to put it on some student lists in the near future!A continuing reminder that I will be unavailable for meetings from June 12 - 22 due to a horse show, a visit to six Indiana colleges, and the destination wedding of a college friend.  I will keep up with email and text messages, just no meetings will be scheduled.Parents:Is this any way to pick a college?From the blog:Back in the twentieth century when I became an undergraduate student (!), part of the orientation week event schedule for freshman included an evening program in which the young women and young men were separated into two groups.  My girlfriends and I took seats in the campus’s largest lecture hall and were given a speech that we can all recite the gist of to this day.Its main idea?  Don’t be a zebra.Read More