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How to Connect With Your Professors

How to Connect With Your Professors

Posted on January 27, 2025
Categories: College

Hey all, Welcome back to The College Blog! Today’s post is about connecting with your professors. As I talked about in the previous post on the changes of class structure, your professors are extremely important to your success, academically, and career-wise. It is vital that you form connections with your professors—and, like I talked about…

SLA Scholarship Folder

SLA Scholarship Folder

Posted on January 21, 2025
Categories: College

Check out the College Office’s scholarship folder. It’s a good place to start. It’s never too early to start!    

9th Grade Scholarships

9th Grade Scholarships

Posted on January 17, 2025
Categories: College

It’s never too early to look for and apply to scholarships! Here is a database that can be used to begin your search for scholarships that freshman students are eligible to apply for. Be sure to check back in as we often update the list!

Smart Money Choices

Smart Money Choices

Posted on January 17, 2025
Categories: College

Hey all, Welcome back to The College Blog! This post is covering smart money choices. When you get to college, you’re considered an adult—you navigate your social, academic, and medical life independently, but you also start to come into your own financially. With college comes, almost always, some level of student loans, and from that,…

Email Etiquette

Email Etiquette

Posted on January 15, 2025
Categories: College

Hey all, Welcome back to The College Blog! This next post is about something that is so incredibly important in the age we live in, both in secondary education and beyond; email etiquette. While this is something already drilled into me from before freshman year of high school, there are adults out there who get…

Transitioning from SLA to College

Transitioning from SLA to College

Posted on January 15, 2025
Categories: College

Hey all, Welcome to The College Blog! I am a recent graduate of SLA (‘24), and I am currently enrolled as a freshman at Haverford College. I am writing to all of the prospective college students in the hope of creating something I didn’t have when I was in your shoes; a guide to things…

SLA Featured in National Report on School Innovation

SLA Featured in National Report on School Innovation

Posted on December 11, 2024
Categories: Academics

SLA is proud to be a part of the Canopy project, which highlights schools pursuing equitable and student-centered designs. Canopy just released a new report, diving into five years of insights into school-level innovation across the U.S. This analysis describes how schools are tackling urgent challenges, evolving designs, and preparing for the future. With compelling…

Follow the College Office on IG

Follow the College Office on IG

Posted on December 3, 2024
Categories: College

Don’t Cross Out Trades!

Posted on November 27, 2024
Categories: College

As students scramble to submit their college applications, praying they’re admitted into the schools they’ve been grinding for, they often gloss over other postsecondary options. Trade school, for one, is a reasonable alternative to college. It’s more affordable and gets you high-paying jobs quicker than the traditional four-year college path. Here’s a chart that illustrates…

SLA Runs Philly Style!

SLA Runs Philly Style!

Posted on November 25, 2024
Categories: Athletics, School Life

This weekend, 19 SLA runners took part in the Philadelphia Marathon weekend! We had nine marathoners, eight half-marathoners, and two 8K runners! Congratulations to all our runners for all their hard work, and all their success this weekend! We are so proud of all of you!