In honor of Earth Day (and next week's Unique NYC College Fair), I'd like to recommend a great way to reuse those return address labels you get for free in the mail: College Fair pre-filled out bio information! When you (or for parents, when your student) get free return address labels in the mail after getting on some pesky mailing list or as a thank you for donating to a charitable organization, bring the stickers to college fairs so all the student needs to do when they are filling out the card is peel and stick. It is a great way to keep the labels out the landfills and save time at crowded college tables. Obviously, some questions on the college inquiry cards may require some additional attention, like your intended major, graduation year and current school, but using the stickers will speed up the process. It is also a great benefit to the poor student worker back at the college that has to decipher smeared ink, messy handwriting, and so on. Win/Win!
As a reminder, students should only use the return address labels if THEIR name and address is listed. Parents should not be the ones on the mailing lists, students are the future applicants, right?
For students that may not have pre-existing extra return address labels sitting in a drawer at home, don't dismay. You can go to any office supply store and buy labels for you to type the information on ahead of time (try Microsoft Word Label Wizard). You can even add that other additional information I mentioned some schools may request (like our school code 333648, your birthday, intended major and graduation year). If you have the option of choosing your own size label, try and choose one a little bit on the larger size so you can use a slightly more reader friendly font.
I look forward to the fair next Wednesday with the 11th grade students. We will be leaving ElRo to head to LAB after school on Wednesday. All juniors are expected to attend unless they have a job, have childcare responsibilities or have a sports practice. While parents cannot attend the Unique NYC College fair, they can go to the NACAC fair this Sunday at the Javits Center.
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