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Wendy Segal
I had fun making this video. (Click here.)
I hope some of you find it useful because I see apostrophe errors ALL around me!
Wendy Segal
For the last several years – and for the foreseeable future – most students apply to college using the Common App.
When I was a student back in the days of Plato, if I wanted to apply to a college, I wrote to get their application, when I received it I filled it out in blue or black ink, I attached all my documentation in the order requested including my parents' check, I mailed it back to the college, and I waited.
When I first started helping students with the application process over 25 years ago, the student would request an application online, receive a link to that application, print it out at home, fill it out, and mail it in.
Now nearly everyone uses the Common App. You complete one application, enter a dozen or more college names, and click send. Within a day or two, you get a confirmation from each college that your application has been received, and you get periodic updates with invitations to visit, notices about parts of the application received, and, when the spring comes, a link to find out whether you got in or not. The "fat envelope" or "thin envelope" metaphor is an anachronism.
Beware! Don't let the deceptively simple format fool you into believing you can just dash off the application without much effort required. Each part of the Common App requires a deft hand and a certain technique.
Here are some of my best tips:
You should aim to complete the Common App including the essay by October 15th at the latest, whether you'll be applying to any schools early decision, early action, or just regular decision. An application sent in October shows the college you're eager, organized, and serious, and it gives your guidance department time to make sure all of the parts have been submitted well before the deadline.
Good luck, and you know where to find me if you have questions!
Wendy Segal
As I wrote in Part 1 of this "What Do Colleges Want" essay, colleges want you to be bright, engaged, a leader, talented — and they want you to score well on standardized tests, too (and if you play an unusual sport, that's a big bonus)!
So what can you do if you're just a regular student who does pretty well in school, participates in a few activities, has SAT or ACT scores that aren't too bad — just like all of your friends? If a college has two or three or 10 or 100 students like you, how does it choose whom to admit?
One factor that colleges use to influence admission decisions (and this factor has become increasingly important in the last 3 – 4 years) is demonstrated interest, which means how much you, the student, really care about going to that school.
How do they know if you really care? How do colleges judge demonstrated interest? Well, you've got to DEMONSTRATE interest (clever, right?). That means you have to do some or all of these:
Just applying early action alone isn't sufficient to demonstrate interest. The school needs to know you've spent time checking it out. The school needs to know you're applying not just because it's easy to click "submit" on the Common App, but because you think you'd be a really good fit for that school for reasons other than it looks like it fits your criteria on paper.
One of the statistics colleges report is "yield," which means how many of the kids who apply and get accepted actually do attend that school. Your local average college probably has a mediocre yield. Harvard and MIT have yields over 95%, meaning nearly everyone who gets in does go. By accepting students who have demonstrated interest, colleges are more likely to increase their yield. The more effort you put into investigating and engaging with a school, the more likely – the school believes – that you'll say yes to the school if it says yes to you. And all schools want a high yield.
So if you want to differentiate yourself from others with your same GPA, your same SAT/ACT scores, your same demographic, your same hobbies, exert yourself, get out there, and demonstrate your interest. It might well make the difference between "Sorry, we had so many qualified candidates" and "Welcome, you're accepted"!
Wendy Segal
I'm glad you asked, because there are indeed concrete steps you can take to enhance your college application whether you're in 9th grade dreaming of college, a senior overwhelmed with the process of college applications, or any student (or parent) in between.
First, a little background. When I first started advising students about how to get into a college that would be a great fit for them about 29 years ago, most colleges were looking for the "well-rounded" student. The ideal applicant would get good grades, have high SAT scores, belong to several school clubs, play a sport, and perhaps even dance or sing or play an instrument. The more areas in which a student showed competence, the more attractive the applicant.
About 15 years ago, there was a shift. Colleges decided that they could have a well-rounded freshman class even if each student wasn't well-rounded. In fact, perhaps a college could build a stellar class if they chose some students who were brilliant academically but had no other activities, some athletes who were stars on the field but didn't test well and didn't have wonderful grades, some virtuoso cellists who had played Carnegie Hall but never joined a club or held a job, and so on. Colleges were looking for "passion," drive, and singular achievement.
About 7 or 8 years ago, there was another shift. Colleges found that sometimes star athletes, world-class musicians, and brilliant students kept those interests isolated from everything else in their lives, and so didn't add much to the school environment. Now, colleges are looking for something I call "consistency." They want to see that your interest or talent pervades your life, that you don't merely dance or play lacrosse because someone said it would look good on an application. They want to see how you use that interest throughout your life. So if you dance, they want to see that you work part-time in a dance studio helping younger dancers, that you and your friends give free dance performances each Christmas in the local senior center, that you dance in your local dance group, that you've organized a dance group for your school. If you play lacrosse, they want to see you get paid for coaching lacrosse, they want to see you spend your summers at a lacrosse training camp, they want to see you volunteer to coach kids in some sport in your nearest inner city Boy's Club. Your in-school, out-of-school, volunteer, and paid work should all be organized around your interest, talent, or ability.
The best applicants actually DO have a pervasive, enduring interest that shows itself in every aspect of their lives (while those applicants also get good grades and have good scores). But if you know that's what colleges are looking for, you can give them what they want. Instead of going on your church's midnight run to give food to the homeless in the city (or in addition to that), be sure you look for volunteer opportunities that complement your "interest." Better yet, create volunteer opportunities that both reflect your interest and highlight your leadership abilities. Be thoughtful about how you spend your summers. If you're an athlete, camp or life-guarding is fine, but if you want to be an engineer, perhaps working theater tech for local community theater is better. Choose after school activities wisely. If your strength is academics, you may want to join the prom committee, but the debate club might be a better choice.
In many ways, I'm sorry for this trend. I do think 14- , 15- , 16- , and 17-year old students should be exploring lots of interests. How do you know if the chorus isn't for you until you try it? Maybe you'll find that the Model U.N. ignites a passion for public service in you. Maybe not, but you won't know until you try. So on the one hand, I'm giving you advice I don't believe. I don't believe young people should be hyper-focused on one passion. Your "passion" at 15 might bear no resemblance to your "passion" at 17 — and that's how it should be.
On the other hand, people do pay me for my years of expertise about how to get into their top choice college — and telling students to focus, focus, focus on their grades and one big talent or interest will absolutely differentiate that student from the thousands of other smart, suburban, perfectly likable and capable students who will compete for a limited number of spots at that college. So you need to decide whether your passion or talent is enduring or a passing flirtation, and how important it is for you to tailor your activities (beginning in 9th grade, if possible) based on college acceptance. Or maybe this advice gives you permission to resign from clubs and activities that don't light your fire in favor of those that feed your passion. Feel free to comment (politely).
Shortly, I'll write about other aspects of a college application over which students have control so they can give the college what they want. Stay tuned!
Wendy Segal
You wooed them. They flirted back with glossy pamphlets and flattery. You've proposed, they've accepted, and you expect to walk arm and arm happily into the sunset — just you and the school of your dreams. Now that you've said "I do," all you have to do is put that sticker on the back of your car, and you and your school will build a 4-year relationship together.
Not so fast.
A few years ago, the New York Times printed this article warning kids not to let their grades slip too far in senior year:
It warns "slackers" that colleges will and regularly do pull offers of admittance if a student's grades slip too much. You have to submit your year-end grades to the school you've chosen, and if the college doesn't like what it sees, it has a long waiting list of eager students still batting their eyelashes at your school.
I believe the New York Times. Most of the colleges they referenced were large state schools (the kind with affordable tuition) who have too many students to care if you fill that last dorm room or another student does, one more serious about learning and schooling whose grades not only didn't drop but might have even improved over the past few months.
The National Association for College Admission Counseling recently updated its article on the same topic, confirming that colleges do indeed rescind admissions offers if they must.
If you have a legitimate excuse for why your grades are dropping, contact your college as soon as you realize what's happening. A legitimate excuse might be a recent serious illness — your own or a parent's.
If you merely have an advanced case of senioritis, that's not an excuse.
Remember, colleges don't see your third quarter grades, but they do see your final transcript. If your grades start to drop, do something!
The weather is warm, the prom is coming, and English is boring, but keep it up for just a little longer. It's hard to get that sticker off your car window!
It's not at all too early to be visiting colleges. Think about your schedule by backing up: You probably want to apply to many colleges early action, which means getting the applications submitted by October of Senior year. That means you have to have a good idea of which colleges you'll be applying to by July or August following Junior year so you can get started on your application essay and have it finished by September. That means you've got to visit colleges in the spring of your Junior year in high school BEFORE the students who attend college leave for the summer (so you can get an accurate sense of what sort of kids go there and whether you'd feel at home with them) so you can write your essay(s) over the summer. That means you've got to visit before May when colleges have finals week followed by a mass exodus of students from campus. That means you've got to visit colleges by March or April. What month is this? Do you still think you've got plenty of time to visit colleges?
Here's some sensible advice:
1. You should plan to visit schools by geography. Many kids from my area of the US do a loop around Pennsylvania (Bucknell, Lafayette, Lehigh, maybe UDelaware), Or they do the Boston area run (Boston College, Boston University, Tufts, Brandeis, Northeastern, maybe Emerson). Or perhaps the New York State trip (SUNY Albany, SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Cortland, Cornell/Ithaca College, Syracuse). You may want to visit a few colleges in the same general area, but I think you should limit yourself to two or three a day; otherwise, the whole experience can be overwhelming. Make hotel reservations if you think you'll need them, and ask your parents to take a couple of Mondays or Fridays off work.
2. Sign up online for tours. Some schools print a schedule and you are welcome to go on any tour that's convenient, but many others require you to sign up in advance. Do that. You'll get a much, much better sense of the school on a tour than just wandering around on your own.
3, Find out if you can interview with an admissions person. Very often, they'll have something called an information session or a one-on-one with someone in admissions. If that's available, take advantage of the opportunity to make a good impression. Whether it's a real interview or just a meet-and-greet, dress casually but be clean and neat, smile and shake hands, and have a few questions ready (and make sure the answers aren't on the school's website). Good questions might be about your major (How easy is it to change majors? How many professors are in that department? How many students graduate with that major? Does the school assign a faculty advisor to you?), about housing (Do they house all freshman together? Are there substance-free houses or theme houses? Do they guarantee housing for sophomores and juniors?), or anything else that interests you.
4. While you're at the interview or while you're walking around the science building/ performing arts center/ library/ other building of interest, send your parents to the cafeteria. You can meet them there afterwards. NO parents should go with you on an interview ever, even if the school allows it. Having Mom or Dad go with you to meet the admissions person gives the impression that your parents don't trust you to handle the interview on your own. Instead, parents should be in the cafeteria, asking students questions that would embarrass their children to hear. Parents, your job is to find a typical student and approach him or her with questions like, "Would you choose this school again? If you had a cousin interested in economics (or whatever major your student is interested in), would you send him here? What's the worst thing about this school?" You'd be surprised how honest students can be.
5. Take pictures as you go around on tours or write on brochures. Six months from now, you won't remember which schools had the great dining halls or the up-to-date science labs.
It's not imperative that you visit every school you will apply to, but you want to take a look at several schools that are on your "probably" list. If you get into Harvard, do you care what the dorms look like? If you only get into a school on the bottom of your safety list, who cares what the student lounges are like – you're going or you'll stay home. You might want to see one urban, one suburban, and one rural school. You might want to see a large school and a small school.
I do get that the very idea of visiting schools is intimidating. Sitting down to make a provisional list can seem overwhelming. Start with your guidance counselor. He or she can give you a great starting list if you share what your preferences and goals are. Or start online with collegeboard.org or get the paid subscription offered by US News ($30 for the year and VERY well worth it, in my opinion. Get a list going, plan your visits, coordinate your schedule with your parents, and go. After you visit the first school, you'll find the next ones much less scary.
If you really feel stuck and don't know where or how to build a list, I can help. Schedule a session with me and we'll work it out together.
Wendy Segal
Have you taken the old SAT but you weren't thrilled with your scores and would like to take the test again? Bad luck! Students who signed up for the January test took the last test of the old variety. Sadly, the new SAT is nothing like the old SAT, but it IS astonishingly like the ACT. Why? Well, the College Board says it's to align their test more closely with the Common Core, but I think it's because more students in the U.S. over the past two years took the ACTs than the SATs — and there's no sign that the trend is slowing down.
I don't know of one college that doesn't accept either the SAT or the ACT. There indeed used to be a preference for the SAT among the east coast and west coast colleges and among the most elite schools, but that's no longer true. Whichever test you feel best reflects your abilities is fine for all American colleges.
For the majority of my students, the ACT is the way to go, at least for the next two years until the College Board works out the kinks in the new SAT. If you do decide to take the new SAT, be aware that you won't get your scores back until at least May (at least that's what the College Board is saying now). Furthermore, there are only four practice SATs of the new variety, but there are plenty of old ACTs around to practice on. Disappointingly, the SATs had promised guidance counselors and tutors that there would be several new practice tests prepared by the Khan Academy online tutoring site, but when the College Board received the proposed tests, they scrapped them. No one knows when additional SAT practice tests will be available. Just as disappointingly, the ACT people had promised a new book in January, because the ACTs changed as well. Their changes were subtle, and perhaps no one but a tutor who works with those tests 5 or 6 days a week would notice the changes, but it would have been nice to have new tests. A new book was indeed published in January — but it had the exact same tests as the old book! The ACT people admitted that their new tests weren't ready, but they needed to put out a new book to fulfill a contractual obligation to a new printer. So if you're going to take the ACTs, buy the least expensive version of the book you can find as long as it has 5 practice tests.
So you can compare the old SAT, the new/current SAT, and the ACT, I've included a handy chart below. Let me know if you have any questions.
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|old SAT
|new SAT
|number of choices in multiple choice question
|4 (most sections)
|penalty for guessing
|questions range from easy to hard
|no, except math
|multiple choice sections
|overall length – multiple choice sections
|200 min.
|180 min.
|175 min.
|length of shortest section
|10 min.
|25 min.
|35 min.
|length of longest section
|25 min.
|65 min.
|60 min.
|sections alternate (random order)
|problem solutions in practice book
|old SAT
|new SAT
|New SAT scores for March will not be back until May
|Years of practice tests for ACT, but only four practice tests for SAT
|Optional essay isn't really optional on either test – many colleges require the essay section
|Colleges don't prefer one test over the other
|old SAT
|new SAT
|number of math sections
|focus on geometry
|logic questions in math section
|calculator permitted
|all math sections
|some math sections
|all math sections
|essay position
|essay length
|25 min.
|50 min.
|40 min.
|essay status
|essay affects overall combined score
|essay topic
|graph/chart analysis
|always (embedded in reading)
|always (separate section)
|extended science reading
|unfamiliar vocabulary
|yes, separate questions
|yes, imbedded in questions
|number of sections
|old SAT
|new SAT
|question types
|replace sentence sections, find errors in sentences, editing in paragraph
|editing in paragraph
|editing in paragraph
|number of sections
|ACT website:
|SAT website:
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|Wendy Segal Tutoring
|Best SAT workbook:
|The Official SAT Study Guide
|Best ACT workbook:
|Real ACT
|Best SAT Subject Test workbook:
|The Official Study Guide for ALL SAT Subject Tests
When rumors of a new SAT were swirling, the College Board let it leak that they would be doing away with the fill-in-the-blank vocabulary sentences. And they did. The College Board representatives have held press conferences casting aspersions (look it up!) on so-called "SAT vocabulary," insisting there would be no such vocabulary on the new test. Instead, they'll be using words that are more common and useful in typical high school and college reading.
The College Board released four sample tests of the new type. In the first test, you'll encounter the following words. Of course you know them because they're not honest-to-goodness vocabulary words. Or do you?
Can you define these 29 words (all from Sample Test 1)?
Aren't you glad they took out vocabulary? Ah, you might be thinking. The College Board said they'd be using words in context. I'll be able to figure out the meaning from the words and concepts around them. Well, if they ask you if the author's tone is sardonic or magnanimous, even if you understood the reading, you might not get the right answer because neither of those words would be used in context. At least with the old/current SAT, you could learn a strategy for solving those fill-in-the-blank sentences. With the new test, no such luck.
So don't throw away your vocabulary books. (By the way, one of the BEST vocabulary books, especially for students who already have a reasonably broad lexicon (again, look it up), is Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis. It's a rather ancient book (I was assigned chapters from it when I was in 7th grade, when phones were still attached to the wall with curly wires!), but year after year, the vocabulary in that book still shows up on SATs. Furthermore, the author's dry wit makes expanding one's vocabulary almost fun!
If you plan on taking the new SAT, which will be offered starting in March 2016, it's more important than ever to read, read, read. You might put a sticky-note inside the front cover to note words that are unfamiliar to you (or even more likely, that are a little familiar to you but you couldn't define).
Pay particular attention to common words used in an unusual way. (For example, as in the list above, grave normally means a hole in the ground for a dead body, but what does it mean when you say someone gave the student a grave warning?)
And lastly, don't let your grammar get sloppy. Grammar is now part of the reading section of the SATs. So if you are a stellar reader but think it's okay to say, "Between you and I, Tom has less girlfriends than Ted," you'll ruin your critical reading score. (You caught both errors in that sentence, right?)
If you have any questions or need help, contact me at http://www.wendysegaltutoring.com or at email@example.com or on my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Wendy-Segal-Tutoring-Highschool2college-202183139820161/timeline/
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Here's my best advice for you to get ready for the big move:
1. GET A SHOT! I can't say it loudly enough. Get a meningitis shot. The old ones lasted 5 years. They now have vaccines that last 10 years. If you're not sure if you've had one, ask your doctor – or just get another one. Hardly anyone gets meningitis, but it's often fatal if you do. Why take a chance? One girl did — read about it here.
Please, please don't put it off. Make an appointment now because they sometimes run out of vaccine.
2. Start saving Bed, Bath, and Beyond coupons. They come in the mail. Save them. The store doesn't mind your using expired coupons. Bed, Bath, and Beyond has a good selection of college stuff starting early in August. Marsha, a wise friend of mine, gave me the following advice and she was right: Buy everything you think you might possibly need, but don't open it until you get to college. If you don't need it in your particular dorm room, your parents can always take it back to the store and return it if they keep the receipt.
3. Start making a backpack of all the stuff you'll need the minute you arrive at college:
There's lots more stuff you will need, but these are things you might need right away to put your room in order and will certainly get lost if you pack them with the other junk.
4. Get a new laptop. If yours is more than 4 or 5 years old, you might want a new one. You probably won't need a printer (they're handy but take up precious desktop room and every school has convenient places to print out papers), but you will need a laptop to bring to class, to submit assignments, and to drag to the library or to a friend's dorm room for a group project.
5. Ask what cell phone carrier works best at your school. I know from my son that if you don't have Verizon at Cornell, you don't have reception. If you know someone at the school you'll be going to, ask about who's got the best reception. If you don't know anyone there, find a facebook group of last year's freshmen and ask them. While you're at it, try to get your parents to pay for unlimited text messages. You'll need it!
6. Expect to feel out of place for a little while. I have to confess — I cried through most of my freshman year. I didn't want to live home again, I just wanted my life the way it was back in high school with all my comfortable friends, with clean clothes that appeared regularly in my room, with free food in the fridge. I thought everyone else was having a blast, and I was the only one feeling sad, lonely, uncomfortable, sick of hearing my roommate's music. I saw everyone's happy faces going to class and I felt even more alone. Little did I know that many of them were smiling on the outside and feeling exactly the same as I did on the inside. I think if I knew that – and if I knew then how certainly this feeling would pass by springtime – I wouldn't have felt quite so confused. So I'm telling you now: It's not only okay to feel disassociated your first few months at college, it's normal. Really.
I hope I haven't made you too nervous. I just want you to be as prepared as you can be. Keep in touch with your old friends, your family — and me!
I recently posted advice about visiting colleges and then saw this article in Forbes magazine from one dad who went on some tours with his daughter. His advice was right on the money. Spring break is the best time to visit colleges, but if you didn't get to visit then, or if you need to see a few more schools, the early fall is an excellent time to visit schools.
I don't believe that you need to see every school your student will apply to. After all, if she gets into Harvard, she's going, right? And if she only gets into her bottom safety school, who cares what the dorms are like?
Of course, colleges are looking for good grades, good scores, good community service, a good essay, and good recommendations. But they're also looking for something called "demonstrated interest." They want to know that you didn't just send them an application because it was easy to click one more "send" from the Common App. They want to know that you're actually interested in attending that school. So visiting a college fair and filling out a name-and-address card is one way to show demonstrated interest. And when a representative from a college on your list visits your student's guidance department, have him attend because that's a strong way to show demonstrated interest. Emailing the admissions department with a question that isn't answered on their website also shows demonstrated interest. But one of the clearest way to show interest is to visit the college on a tour.
It makes sense to visit at least one smaller school from your list and at least one large school, at least one urban school if you have any on your list and at least one suburban or rural school, and so on. Here's some more practical advice:
1. You should plan to visit schools by geography. Many kids from my area of the U.S. do a loop around Pennsylvania (Bucknell, Lafayette, Lehigh, maybe UDelaware), Or they do the Boston area run (Boston College, Boston University, Tufts, Brandeis, Northeastern, maybe Emerson). Or perhaps the New York State trip (SUNY Albany, SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Cortland, Cornell/Ithaca College, Syracuse). You may want to visit several colleges in the same general area, but I think you should limit yourself to two or three a day; otherwise, the whole experience can be overwhelming. Make hotel reservations if you think you'll need them.
2. Sign up online for tours. Some schools print a schedule and you just go on any tour that's convenient, but many require you to sign up in advance. Do that. You'll get a much, much better sense of the school on a tour than just wandering around on your own.
3, Find out if you can interview with an admissions person. Very often, they'll have something called an information session or a one-on-one with someone in admissions. Whether it's a real interview or just a meet-and-greet, dress casually but be clean and neat, smile and shake hands, and have a few questions ready (and make sure the answers aren't on the school's website). Good questions might be about your major (How easy is it to change majors? How many professors are in that department? How many students graduate with that major? Does the school assign a faculty advisor to you?); about housing (Do they house all freshman together? Are there substance-free houses or theme houses? Do they guarantee housing for sophomores and juniors?); or anything else that interests you.
4. While you're at the interview or while you're walking around the science building/ performing arts center/ library/ other building of interest, send your parents to the cafeteria. You can meet them there afterwards. NO parents should go with you on an interview ever, even if the school allows it. That gives the impression that your parents don't trust you to handle the interview on your own. Instead, parents should be in the cafeteria, asking students questions that would embarrass their children to hear. Parents, find a random student and ask questions like, "Would you choose this school again? If you had a cousin interested in economics (or whatever major your student is interested in), would you send him here? What's the worst thing about this school?" You'd be surprised how honest students can be. If the worst thing is the freshman dorm, big deal. But if the worst thing is that the professors are inaccessible or the administration doesn't care about the students or required classes are often closed out (too many students), you may want to move on to the next school on your list.
5. Take pictures as you go around on tours or write on brochures. Six months from now, you won't remember which schools had the great dining halls or the well-stocked labs.
Yes, you can see schools in the summer, but it's not the same without students there. If you're going into your Junior year in high school, ask your parents to save some work vacation days for spring college visits. If you're a Senior in high school, plan to visit schools as early in September as you can. You probably want to be applying to some schools early action – which means your applications must be completely done and submitted by mid-October.
Let me know if you have any questions about visiting colleges or any other aspect of applying to school
Wendy Segal
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"We make our students a priority and serve them consistently each year," shares Julie Bennett, site director for ChattState's Kimball Site. Employing that strategy, the Kimball Site enjoyed double-digit enrollment increases during the fall 2013 semester.
Figures show that full-time enrollment, known as FTE, rose 17.79 percent from 164 students during fall 2012 to 193 students in 2013. Overall headcount went from 356 in 2012 to 384 in 2013.
On the vocational side that includes cosmetology and welding classes, the figure jumped 29.41 percent; 34 students in fall 2012 to 44 student in 2013. The site actually serves more than 500 students each semester according to Ms. Bennett.
Still elated over the recent groundbreaking ceremony for the new Kimball Site located on the old Holland Farm site, Ms. Bennett said, "We are excited about the potential growth when we move to the new site for the fall 2014 semester."
During a Kimball Site advisory board meeting highlighting the fall 2013 semester, Ms. Bennett shared that students participated in a Back to School Blast, held a blood drive on site twice, collected a truckload of canned goods for the Marion County Food Bank and enjoyed a Student Life sponsored Oktoberfest activity.
Registration for Spring 2014 classes is ongoing. Says Ms. Bennett, "The Kimball staff strives to assist all students in our service area. We serve all Chattanooga State students – even if they are not attending the Kimball site."
For more information, visit www.chattanoogastate.edu or call 837-1327. The ChattState Kimball site is at 426 Battle Creek Road.
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BOISE – Idaho's Department of Labor will start intercepting federal tax refunds headed to more than 5,000 Idahoans next year, to recover nearly $10 million in unemployment benefit overpayments due to fraud or misreported earnings.
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Guys, this is nothing more than a way for the gun and ammunition companies to put some extra cash in their pocket. Profiting off fear under the illusion of shortage. It's a marketing strategy and nothing more. But I understand the constant need for false paranoia, and as I wont be refreshing my browser or checking back to see the slew of hate received for not buying into the panic it would be best advised to not respond.
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yes, but shes a homebirth midwife. I personally wouldnt expect it from any hospital midwives,..nak
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I had this same issue with my midwife with my last pregnancy (and I'm preggers again and working with her for this one, too, so I wonder about this subject, myself).
After the hospital birth of my daughter, my midwife called the next day (I was still in the hospital) and then I never heard from her again. (She is also a homebirth midwife and beloved in the community, for sure). I did see her at the six week check up, and I had called her for dd having reflux in the first months of life, but she never contacted me after the birth, which I think contributed to my postpartum depression--I was grieving for her (but I know this was not the exclusive reason for the depression), now that I look back.
I think that midwives definitely understand the importance of the emotional connection between women--and its significance in the outcomes and health of mama and baby. SO... I think connecting in the postpartum period is just as needed.
I DO understand they are busy with other births, prenatal visits, etc. but I would like to see the midwifery model of care extend into the 6 weeks postpartum period.
The six weeks (or 40 days: a deliberate, sacred number) is a very holy, sensitive and precious time. As a woman, having made a connection with a midwife for nine months and birthing with her (at home or in the hospital) is a very intimite experience that we share with them.
Everybody wants to be contacted "the morning after" an intimite experience and every woman needs to know it is not just "over" / less important to the midwife after the baby is out!!!
Don't devalue your feelings. Postpartum hormones or not, your heart has made an intimite connection with another human being, during a holy period in your life, and your feelings are totally natural.
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I was very blessed. After my homebirth, my midwives called at 12 hours, visited at 24, came back at day 3, day 5, day 7, day 10, 2 weeks, 3 weeks and then I went to her for my 6 week pp exam. She also made it very clear that she was on call to me during that entire time.
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Friday – UFC Fight Club Party and fighter Q&As. The event takes place at The Printworks in Bierkeller Entertainment Complex, and it begins at 7 p.m. BST. McGregor, Gustafsson, Bisping, Poirier, Mousasi and Baker will be in attendance, and there will be satellite Q&A sessions with fighters around the world. The event includes meet-and-greets and giveaways.
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Katzmarzyk, P. T., Mire, E., Bray, G. A., Greenway, F. L., Heymsfield, S. B. and Bouchard, C. (2013), Anthropometric markers of obesity and mortality in white and African American adults: The pennington center longitudinal study. Obesity, 21: 1070–1075. doi: 10.1002/oby.20151
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Funding agencies: This research was supported by the Pennington Biomedical Research Center. PK is supported, in part, by the Louisiana Public Facilities Authority Endowed Chair in Nutrition and SH is funded, in part, by the George A. Bray, Jr. Chair in Nutrition. CB is funded, in part, by the John W. Barton, Sr. Endowed Chair in Genetics and Nutrition. This work was also partially supported by an NORC Center grant #2P30-DK072476-06 entitled "Nutritional Programming: Environmental and Molecular Interactions" sponsored by NIDDK.
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- Issue online: 20 JUN 2013
- Version of Record online: 20 JUN 2013
- Accepted manuscript online: 6 NOV 2012 08:12AM EST
- Manuscript Accepted: 25 OCT 2012
- Manuscript Received: 16 JUL 2012
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The purpose of this study was to determine the association between anthropometric measures of obesity and all-cause mortality in white and African American men and women.
Design and Methods:
The sample included 14,343 adults 18-89 years of age. Height, weight, and waist and hip circumferences were measured, and the BMI (kg m−2), body adiposity index (BAI = ([hip circumference in centimeters]/[height in meters])1.5 – 18), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) were computed. Vital status of the participants was determined from linkage with the National Death Index through 2009. Cox regression was used to assess the association between anthropometry and all-cause mortality, adjusting for age, sex, year of baseline examination, study code, smoking status, alcohol consumption and physical activity. Hazard ratios (HR) are expressed per standard deviation of each variable.
A total of 438 deaths occurred during 120,637 person-years of follow-up. All anthropometric markers demonstrated significant associations with all-cause mortality in white subjects. In multivariable-adjusted models, BMI (HR 1.34; 95% CI: 1.19-1.50), waist circumference (1.41; 1.25-1.60), BAI (1.34; 1.17-1.53), WHtR (1.46; 1.28-1.65), and WHR (1.40; 1.23-1.61) all demonstrated significant relationships with mortality in white participants, but not in African Americans. In categorical analyses, there was a significant association between BMI status and mortality in whites but not African Americans. However, the risk associated with elevated waist circumference was similar in whites (1.49; 1.15-1.94) and African Americans (1.60; 1.06-2.40).
In summary, this study has demonstrated race differences in the association between anthropometry and all-cause mortality.
African American men and women can expect to live 5 and 3.5 fewer years than white men and women, respectively, under current mortality patterns (1). African Americans have a higher prevalence of obesity (2) and obesity-related comorbidities such as type 2 diabetes (3); however, it is not clear how much of the racial gap in life expectancy can be explained by differentials in obesity risk and prevalence. The strength of the relationship between BMI and mortality in African Americans is unclear, as some studies have reported a significant association in men (4-7) or women (6, 8), and others have reported an absent or reduced association in either men (9-11) or women (4, 7, 9-13).
In addition to BMI, waist circumference is another common measure of obesity, as it is highly correlated with total body fat and moderately correlated with visceral adipose tissue (14, 15). Several studies have indicated a significant relationship between waist circumference and mortality in U.S. cohorts (8, 10, 11, 16-20); however, the evidence for a potential differential association among white and African Americans is not consistent (5, 10-12, 17). Racial differences in the risk of mortality related to other indices of adiposity and fat distribution such as waist-to-hip circumference ratio (WHR) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) have apparently been investigated in only one previous study to our knowledge (10), and the mortality risk associated with the Body Adiposity Index (BAI) (21) has not yet been studied.
The present study was designed to determine the association of several common anthropometric measures of obesity with all-cause mortality rates in a biracial sample of men and women.
Subjects and Methods
The Pennington Center Longitudinal Study (PCLS) is an on-going investigation of the effects of obesity and lifestyle factors on the development of chronic diseases and premature mortality. The sample is composed of volunteers who have participated in a variety of clinical studies, including diet interventions, weight loss, and other metabolic/physiologic studies conducted at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center (PBRC) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana between 1994 and 2009. All data for this analysis were obtained from baseline screening exams prior to enrolment in a specific study. The current analysis included 14,343 participants (5,506 white women, 3,524 African American women, 4,076 white men and 1,237 African American men) 18-89 years of age from 243 different studies. Race was self-identified by the participant. Each participant provided their written informed consent and all PCLS procedures were approved by the PBRC Institutional Review Board.
Baseline examination
Height and weight were measured using a wall-mounted stadiometer and a digital scale, respectively, after the volunteer removed outer clothing, heavy pocket items and shoes. Waist circumference was measured at the midpoint between the inferior border of the ribcage and the superior aspect of the iliac crest using an inelastic measuring tape. Hip circumference was measured at the level of the greater trochanters using an inelastic measuring tape. The BMI was calculated as weight in kg/height in m2, and the BAI was calculated as ([hip circumference in centimeters]/[height in meters])1.5 - 18, and the WHtR and WHR were computed from their component variables. The sample was categorized into underweight (BMI < 18.5 kg m−2), normal weight (BMI 18.5-24.9 kg m−2), overweight (BMI 25-29.9 kg m−2, obese class I (BMI 30-34.9 kg m−2) and obese class II (BMI ≥ 35 kg m−2) categories as well as low and high waist circumference (> 88 cm in women and > 102 cm in men) (22).
Information on several covariates was collected at baseline for inclusion in the statistical models. Participant age was computed from birth and observation dates, year of examination was included as a covariate to account for potential temporal trends in baseline measurements, and a unique study code identifier was included to account for potential differences in participant characteristics across studies. Smoking status, alcohol consumption, and engagement in leisure-time physical activity were self-reported during the baseline data collection.
Ascertainment of mortality status
The vital status of all participants and causes of death were determined by linkage to the National Death Index (23). The primary endpoint for this analysis was death from all causes. All deaths occurring between 6 months after the baseline assessment and December 31, 2009 were included in the analysis. The average length of follow-up was 8.4 years (SD 4.3 years; maximum 16.0 years).
Statistical analysis
Cox proportional hazards regression was used to assess the association between the anthropometric measures and all-cause mortality rates, adjusting for a variety of covariates as described below. We present the results of four models: Model 1 includes all participants, adjusted for age, sex and exam year; Model 2 includes all participants, adjusted for age, sex, year of baseline examination, study code, smoking status (never, former, current, unknown), alcohol consumption (no, yes, unknown) and leisure-time physical activity (<4 h week−1, ≥ 4 h week−1, unknown); Model 3 is limited to participants without a history of stroke, heart disease or cancer at baseline, adjusted for age, sex and exam year; and Model 4 is also limited to participants without a history of stroke, heart disease or cancer at baseline, and includes the same covariates as Model 2. Analyses were performed on the combined sample of white and African American participants (with race as a covariate), and then stratified by race. Hazard ratios (HR) are expressed per standard deviation of each independent variable. Hazard ratios were also calculated across BMI (normal weight, overweight, obese class I, obese class II) and waist circumference (low, high) categories. Underweight participants were excluded from this categorical analysis given the small sample size (n = 92) and the small number of deaths (n = 2) in this group.
The full sample size (n = 14,343) was available for analyses of BMI; however, the analytic sample size for other variables varied due to missing data. Further, the full sample size was reduced from 14,343 to 13,930 for models 3 and 4, which were limited to participants who were free of stroke, heart disease and cancer at baseline. The proportional hazards assumption of the Cox regression models were assessed by a statistical test of proportionality with time-dependent variables. These tests revealed no violation of the proportional hazards assumption.
The mean age of the sample at baseline was 41.5 (SD 14.5) years. Age was significantly greater in decedents compared to survivors, and all adiposity indicators were significantly higher at baseline in decedents compared to survivors in the total sample, and in white adults (Table 1). Only waist circumference and WHR were significantly higher in African American decedents compared to survivors. Pearson correlations among the adiposity variables are presented in Table 2. In both white and African Americans, all variables are moderately to highly correlated with each other; however, the correlations between WHR and the other variables are somewhat lower.
|Total sample
|White American
|African American
|% Female
|Age (y)
|41.1 (14.3)
|54.9 (14.8)*
|41.8 (15.0)
|56.4 (15.5)*
|39.8 (12.8)
|51.8 (12.4)*
|Age group (%)
|18-29 y
|30-49 y
|50-69 y
|70-89 y
|BMI (kg m−2)
|30.5 (7.2)
|32.3 (8.0)*
|29.8 (7.0)
|32.6 (8.4)*
|32.0 (7.5)
|31.7 (7.1)
|BMI category (%)
|Normal weight
|Obese class I
|Obese class II
|31.3 (7.6)
|32.5 (8.7)*
|30.5 (7.4)
|33.0 (8.9)*
|32.9 (7.8)
|31.4 (8.1)
|Waist circumference (cm)
|93.2 (16.9)
|102.6 (18.8)*
|92.6 (17.1)
|103.9 (20.0)*
|94.3 (16.4)
|100.0 (15.7)*
|Waist circumference category (%)
|WHtR (cm cm−1)
|0.55 (0.10)
|0.60 (0.11)*
|0.55 (0.10)
|0.61 (0.12)*
|0.56 (0.10)
|0.59 (0.10)
|WHR (cm cm−1)
|0.85 (0.10)
|0.92 (0.11)*
|0.86 (0.10)
|0.93 (0.12)*
|0.85 (0.11)
|0.91 (0.09)*
|Smoking status (%)
|Waist circumference
A total of 438 deaths (131 due to cardiovascular disease, 141 due to cancer, 166 other) occurred over 120,637 person-years of follow-up. The causes of death were similar in white (27.3% due to cardiovascular disease, 34.0% due to cancer, 38.7% other) and African Americans (35.5% due to cardiovascular disease, 28.4% due to cancer, 36.2% other). Each anthropometric index showed a significant association with all-cause mortality rates in the combined sample of white and African Americans; however, there were significant interactions between race and the anthropometric variable in every case except for waist circumference (P = 0.19). After stratification by race, the relationships were universally significant in whites but not in African Americans, with the exception of waist circumference in Model 3 (Table 3).
|Waist circumference
|White Americans
|Model 1
|1.36 (1.22-1.52)
|1.44 (1.27-1.63)
|1.36 (1.19-1.55)
|1.48 (1.31-1.67)
|1.43 (1.26-1.64)
|Model 2
|1.34 (1.19-1.50)
|1.41 (1.25-1.60)
|1.34 (1.17-1.53)
|1.46 (1.28-1.65)
|1.40 (1.23-1.61)
|Model 3
|1.31 (1.16-1.47)
|1.40 (1.24-1.59)
|1.34 (1.17-1.54)
|1.46 (1.29-1.66)
|1.44 (1.25-1.64)
|Model 4
|1.30 (1.15-1.47)
|1.38 (1.21-1.58)
|1.33 (1.15-1.52)
|1.44 (1.27-1.64)
|1.41 (1.23-1.62)
|African Americans
|Model 1
|1.01 (0.84-1.22)
|1.19 (0.98-1.45)
|0.93 (0.74-1.16)
|1.13 (0.93-1.38)
|1.07 (0.99-1.15)
|Model 2
|1.01 (0.83-1.22)
|1.18 (0.97-1.45)
|0.93 (0.74-1.16)
|1.12 (0.92-1.37)
|1.06 (0.98-1.16)
|Model 3
|1.03 (0.85-1.26)
|1.23 (1.01-1.50)
|0.96 (0.76-1.22)
|1.16 (0.95-1.42)
|1.06 (0.98-1.15)
|Model 4
|1.03 (0.85-1.26)
|1.23 (1.00-1.51)
|0.97 (0.77-1.23)
|1.16 (0.94-1.43)
|1.06 (0.98-1.16)
Figure 1 presents hazard ratios across normal weight, overweight and obese I and Obese II categories as well as high and low waist circumference. Among whites, the HRs for mortality were 0.89 [95% CI: 0.61-1.32], 1.27 [0.87-1.87], and 1.71 [1.17-2.51] for overweight, obese class I and obese class II, respectively, compared to normal weight (P for trend <0.0001). Among African Americans, the HRs for mortality were 1.04 [0.60-1.80], 0.97 [0.56-1.70], and 0.93 [0.51-1.68] for overweight, obese class I and obese class II, respectively, compared to normal weight (P for trend = 0.70). The elevated relative risk of mortality associated with waist circumference was almost identical in whites (1.49; 1.15-1.94) and African Americans (1.60; 1.06-2.40).
The results of this study indicate that common anthropometric indicators of obesity are more strongly related to all-cause mortality in white Americans than in African Americans. The strength of the associations across the different anthropometric variables in white adults was similar, and the addition of covariates to the models did not markedly attenuate the hazard ratios. Obese white adults had a significantly higher risk of mortality compared to normal weight, but the risk of mortality across BMI-defined categories was not significant in African Americans. African Americans with an elevated waist circumference had a higher risk of mortality compared to those with a low waist circumference.
Several cohort studies have reported significant associations between BMI and mortality among white adults (7, 9, 24). For example, Berrington de Gonzalez and showed a J-shaped relationship between BMI and all-cause mortality, with risks increasing with higher BMI beyond the normal weight range, especially among nonsmokers without a history of disease (24). The results of the present study indicate that the association between BMI and mortality is essentially non-existent in the African American sample, a finding which has been reported in previous studies. For example, follow-up of over a million participants in the Cancer Prevention Study II revealed no increase in mortality associated with BMI in African American women, and a somewhat lower (and nonsignificant) association with excess weight in African American men, compared with white men (9). Further, there was no association between BMI and mortality in African American men and women In the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III Mortality Follow-up Study (10). Recent data from the REGARDS study demonstrated a U-shaped association between BMI and mortality in White participants, but no increased risk of mortality associated with BMI in African American participants (11).
Several additional studies have reported weak or nonexistent relationships between BMI and mortality in African Americans. Data for African Americans from Kaiser Permanente revealed a J-shaped relationship between BMI and mortality in men but essentially a flat relationship in women (4). Stevens and colleagues reported that BMI was related to all-cause mortality in African American men and white men, but not in white men or African American women from the Charleston Heart Study (5, 12). Recent data from the Black Women's Health Study demonstrated a significant, curvilinear relationship between BMI and mortality in African American women (8); however, an earlier study had shown that the association was modified by education: there was a significant association in women with at least a high school education, but not in women without a high school education (13). Taken together, the results of the current study and those of previous studies suggest that the relationship between BMI and mortality is not very robust in African Americans. Further studies are needed using large representative population samples, which are able to explore confounding and effect modification across a wide range of covariates which may help explain the lack of association between BMI and mortality in African Americans.
Waist circumference, WHR, and WHtR were all significantly related to all-cause mortality in a 16-year follow-up of women in the Nurses' Health Study (18). Similarly, waist circumference and WHR were both positively associated with mortality in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (19). Waist circumference was also significantly related to all-cause mortality in men and women from the Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition Cohort (16). Data from the Iowa Women's Health Study also showed positive associations between waist circumference and all-cause mortality (20). Further, waist circumference demonstrated a significant, linear association with all-cause mortality in the Black Women's Health Study, but race differences could not be explored since the sample was 100% African American (8). Although none of these studies examined racial differences, the evidence suggests that waist circumference is generally related to mortality among US adults.
Analyses of data from the Charleston Heart Study demonstrated that waist circumference (age-adjusted) was related to all-cause mortality in white women, but not in white men or African Americans (5, 12). Waist circumference was related to all-cause mortality in white but not African Americans in the NIH-AARP study (17). The multivariable-adjusted hazard ratios for all-cause mortality for high versus low waist circumference (88 cm for women, 102 cm in men) were 1.18 (1.15-1.22) and 1.20 (1.14-1.26) in white men and women, and 1.10 (0.88-1.38) and 1.07 (0.83-1.38) in African American men and women, respectively (17). In a 12-year follow-up of participants in NHANES III, waist circumference was not related to mortality in white or African Americans, but there was a significant dose-response relationship between WHR and all-cause mortality in white and African American women (but not in men) (10). Results from the REGARDS study demonstrated a significant association between waist circumference and mortality in whites and in African American women (although not as strong), but not in African American men (11). Although there was no linear association between waist circumference or its indices in African Americans in the present study, the magnitude of the association between waist circumference category and mortality was essentially the same as that found in white adults (Figure 1).
The BAI has recently been proposed as an alternative to BMI as an index of obesity (21). The results of this study indicate that BAI has a similar relationship with mortality as BMI and other anthropometric indices (Table 3). This is not surprising, given that BAI and BMI have similar associations with body fat and CVD risk factors (14, 25).
It is unclear what the mechanisms are that could explain the race differences in the relative risks of mortality reported in this study. Despite the lack of association between most anthropometric markers and mortality among African Americans, the absolute death rates (adjusted for age, sex and exam year) were markedly higher in African Americans (54.0/10,000 person years) compared to whites (35.8/10,000 person-years). Visceral adipose tissue has been identified as a potentially dangerous fat depot (26, 27). Previous work in this cohort has demonstrated that VAT is significantly higher in whites than in African Americans, even after controlling for total adiposity (28). This represents a paradox that is difficult to explain. It has also been shown that for a given level of WC or BMI, white men and women have higher levels of VAT than African American men and women; however, these race differences increase at higher levels of waist circumference and BMI (29). To date, the degree to which race differences in social and behavioral characteristics can explain the observed differences in obesity-related mortality risk is not well understood. More research is necessary to clarify the underlying mechanisms behind the observed absolute and relative race differences in mortality risk at different levels of obesity.
The strengths and limitations of this study warrant discussion. Marked strengths of this study include the direct assessment of anthropometric measurements using a standard clinical protocol, and the linkage to the National Death Index for the ascertainment of vital status. Although cause of death was known, the sample sizes were not sufficient to allow for cause-specific analyses. Further, the sample size was not sufficient to allow for sex-specific or age-specific analyses within the two racial groups. Major causes of death change with age, and it is likely that the effects of obesity on mortality vary across different age groups. Although we adjusted for known confounding variables in the association with mortality such as age, sex, smoking, alcohol consumption and physical activity, we cannot rule out the possibility that confounding factors that were not measured at baseline may have introduced bias into the results. Although we did not stratify by smoking status in the main analysis, in a sensitivity analysis that excluded current smokers, the results and significance levels did not change appreciably. The sample included white and African men and women who were volunteers for research studies, and therefore may not be representative of the general population.
In conclusion, this study has demonstrated race differences in the association between common anthropometric markers of obesity and all-cause mortality. The associations were more significant in white adults than in African American adults
The Pennington Center Longitudinal Study is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (Identifier NCT00959270). Special thanks to Connie Murla and Aimee Stewart for data management, as well as the many clinical scientists and staff of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center who have contributed data to the development of the Pennington Center Longitudinal Study.
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