How to pick a Major/College/Career during COVID

18 Aug 2020 · 3 min

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In this promotional announcement, Shellee Howard, founder of College Ready, invites parents, students, and educators to a free webinar aimed at navigating college admissions in the COVID‑19 era. She outlines the challenges families face, emphasizes that the pandemic should not halt a student’s progress, and promises practical guidance on selecting majors and colleges without campus visits. A special guest presenter will provide recommendations, tools, and strategies for parents to support their children. The webinar is scheduled for Thursday at noon, will be recorded for later viewing, and registration is available at college-ready-plan.com. Howard stresses positivity, empowerment, and actionable steps for families during this new online admissions landscape.

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Hello, College Ready family and friends. This is Shellee Howard, the founder of College Ready, and I'm super excited to start this new year going back to school. I, like you, am faced with some new opportunities, or some may say challenges. I have a son who is finishing up med school. I have a daughter who will be graduating from nursing school. I have a high school senior and a high school junior, and I feel for you. What does this all mean? It means a new beginning. It means we have to remain positive. It remains— it means that this is going to be a really challenging, fun new year. So the reason I wanted to talk to you today is I have a great webinar coming up, and I want to invite you and your friends and your family. Is open to everybody who would benefit from learning what is going on with college admission. What is the new normal? What does it mean to prepare for college in this new world? I have brought on a special guest that will be talking to the parents about how to handle this new world, about giving you recommendations and suggestions and giving you tools that will help you to get through this new online world that most of us are entering. So if you know anybody, a high school junior, middle schooler, a high school senior, everything in between, if you are a parent of a student and are feeling like, ah, how am I going to do this? Please Tune in. If you would like more information, please go to our website at college-ready-plan.com and sign up for this webinar. It's going to be this Thursday at noon. And we are going to record it. So if you can't make it, if you are a homeschooling parent at that time, please know, just request the recording. You don't want to miss this. I'm going to talk about how students can pick the best major, the best college without ever going on campus. There's— there are so many things they can be doing right now. COVID is not the stopping place for these students. Life has to go on. And as parents, how do we help them? I want to help both the parent, and I've brought on a super awesome presenter that will help the parents get through this. And I'm going to give you some serious what you can do right now. So please join us for this opportunity to take a deep breath and know how to be empowered and how to empower your child to be successful during this time. I hope you can join us, and we'll see you then.