With all the anticipation and even some anxiety, graduating seniors and their parents must feel like colleges choose them. First, though, the seniors have to make a choice; and with 110 public and private four-year colleges and 59 community colleges in North Carolina and another 4,000 of those institutions across the country, it’s a choice best made after some deliberation. So when seniors in LCPS’s high schools sat down last week to fill out online applications for colleges, they had already done some homework – with the help of their school counselors – about what schools looked like the best… read more →