I wanted to create a capstone that would stay with the SLA community even after I left. After that idea I talked to college counselor, Mrs. Hirschfield. We concluded that the website should be more accessible and visually appealing. I built upon the freshman and sophomore page because the college process shouldn’t start Junior year. After going through what was needed and what needed to be fixed on the old website I made a template that would bring all of my and Mrs. Hirshfield’s ideas together. While making the template I also sent out a survey to understand how the student body felt about the current website and where they wanted it to improve. Most of the students said that the website wasn’t appealing and they could never find anything. They students gave great praise to the content, but also thought that as a freshman they didn’t think the website was for them. The website also has the bulletins in order by date and you can see all of them at once instead of scrolling through a document. Their is a full page of test prep and how to link college board and khan academy. There are videos of seniors going over their college process so that students know what they are headed for their senior year. There’s a video on the homepage that goes over how to navigate the website and if someone is looking for something how to find it. I learned that with this website the college process won’t be that hard.

Link: collegenewsblog.wixsite.com/mysite The link above is to the improved SLA College News Blog. The link will be changed to one bought from Wix Sites. It will also be updated with current information!

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“5 Questions To Help You Design an Effective College Website.” Verified Studios, 8 Feb. 2017, www.verifiedstudios.com/effective-college-website/. This article is more about the tech of a website and if it’s marketable. This resource gives a lot of background on how to make your brand create a web presence. It goes in depth with asking the person questions and if this strategy might work for them. For example 47% of people click off a website that takes too long. If websites don’t work well on social media or isn’t presentable on other devices most teens won’t go on it. A website must also have good visuals because most teens don’t read. The article goes over good design. How does your website break up code and how does it go over the information a person is seeking? This a helpful tool for my capstone because it lets me understand how I can improve the design of the current website.

Dix, Willard. “10 Ways To Make The College Application Process Less Painful, More Successful.” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 9 Feb. 2016, www.forbes.com/sites/willarddix/2016/02/09/on-your-marks-get-set/#7dbf12557c70. This article goes over the stress of what college does to students and how parents can distress their children. It goes over the process of actually applying to how to not put all the money obligations on the student. This article is specifically for adults. You can see that by how it is directed at what people could say or do and how other adults or parents should refrain from asking about majors and not speaking for you student/child. The first two suggestions are for parents and their students. The article unlike most college processes don’t mention the counselor. Your counselor is your allie and your shield from everything. A lot of people also forget about recommendations although they could save an application. This article will help finalize the content and what should or shouldn’t be stressed in a person’s college process.

“Helping Your Teen Decide What to Do After High School (for Parents).” Edited by Steven Dowshen, KidsHealth, The Nemours Foundation, June 2018, kidshealth.org/en/parents/after-hs.html. Kids Health is a popular website that most adults use for children and then a lot of high school students use the website to help break down certain topics. This particular article talks about how efficient students need to be before junior year. It used to be that students could look for schools a few months before senior year or during senior year. Now schools are harder and they want more than just grades. This article talks more directly about the process of finding schools or what we call “best fit”. Fit means economically, academically and socially. The colleges could mean all three of students and parents likings or some could meet just two. This article breaks down what students need to do and how far in advance. It gives an intro course almost into Sophomore and Junior year. This article will be more of a background on what students need. In my capstone it will not be anything big since I have the resources that go over this topic.

Hess, Abigail. “The FAFSA Is Now Open-Here’s Why Every Student Should Fill It Out.” CNBC, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2018, www.cnbc.com/2017/09/28/why-every-student-should-fill-out-the-fafsa.html. This article from CNBC goes over why students of every economical background should fill out FAFSA. FAFSA is a way colleges and universities know how much financial aid to give a student and certain students are eligible for what is called a pell grant. A Pell Grant is given to people who make under $30,000 a year. CNBC brings up the fact that people who make a lot of money may not want to apply because they will only receive loans, but the contonter argument is that child can be independent and receive money next year. The FAFSA is a universal financial aid that many students don’t want to fill out, but most schools require that you do. With my capstone I hope to make this very apparent and explain FAFSA in a more detailed way and lay out a students many options.

Hirschfield, Karina. Personal Interview. 23 January 2019 Ms. Hirschfield is a college counselor with Science Leadership Academy. She is currently the only college counselor of Philadelphia that has a CAL Program or College Access Leaders. Ms. Hirschfield will help with my website for the college magazine.

“Home.” PhillyGoes2College.Org, phillygoes2college.org/. “Philly Goes 2 College” is another nonprofit in Philadelphia that helps middle school, high school, and adults with higher education/learning. This website breaks down a lot of the necessary tools for the college process. It gives information on financial aid, conversations about which college to choose, how to find money outside of what schools can give and they break everything down by grade. This site is visually appealing and you can find everything easily. This website also has scholarships which allows parents to use this site for their high school student who is less fortunate. I will use this source has reference for my website and magazine. The content is strong, but more geared towards adults.

Hoover, Eric. “What They Want .” The New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/education/edlife/what-college-admissions-wants.html. The New York Times wrote an article on what colleges want. It isn’t a spelled out of each college in America, but it goes over key points and how times are changing. The overarching information is that colleges no longer want the student with the highests test-scores or the biggest gpa. Colleges and universities want a well-rounded individual that cannot just add to their community, but also set their school up for success. Each new freshmen admitted is a person who can market their school. If a student isn’t a good representation of the school you probably shouldn’t be there. This article also pinpoints that the college process is insensitive. If you aren’t the student their looking for then that isn’t the school for you. The article does a deep dive into how colleges are trying to go beyond the classroom to find the perfect student by adding different requirements on their college admissions materials. Some schools are allowing portfolios to see if students are good presenters. This article gives me a good insight into the application process which could add a lot to any website or magazine on the college process.

Mayfield, Lindsey, and Julie Mayfield. “7 Tips To Make a College Decision as a Family.” U.S. News & World Report, U.S. News & World Report, www.usnews.com/education/blogs/twice-the-college-advice/2012/03/13/7-tips-to-make-a-college-decision-as-a-family. The US News is a good source for the college process, but this blog specifically talks about the decision of choosing the place you live for four years. Every college is different and this article directly says “There is probably more than one school at which you can thrive.” This a very important thing that most seniors don’t realise. This article goes on to say that seniors must beware that you have to eat, sleep and communicate at the school you go to. The article breaks down choosing a school from a money perspective that no matter your circumstance the amount of aid you receive is an input into your school choice. The current magazine on the college process goes over a list for choosing the best school. The thing that needs to be improved is in this article; it needs to be for students and students have to relate to it. They don’t want a whole bunch of questions they won’t someone to spell things out for them. I’m specifically going to use this resource to help students choose a school through the website and magazine I am doing.

Selingo, Jeffrey. “Colleges Are Tracking Prospective Students’ Digital Footprints.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 17 Apr. 2017, www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/04/how-colleges-find-their-students/522516/. This article gave an insight into what most colleges/universities are looking for. The article first follows Saint Louis University which had a demographic that wasn’t very diverse and they all came from the same area. The reason a lot of schools are trying to broaden their demographics is because their graduation rates are decreasing. A colleges graduation rate is very important because it shows the type of students that go their. This article specifically went over how a school like Saint Louis increased their graduation rate and a broader demographic by buying from big data or high school students. A lot colleges get 40% of their information from SAT’s and ACT test when students feel out surveys about majors and different schools. This data allowed schools to know which students they want and which students they need. A lot of schools used this data and now have 20% of students who are eligible for pell grants which means more colleges or universities accept students who make less than $30,000 a year. This information from this article would most likely go on the website I will create because it will give an insight into a college mind and how they market to students. This also allows high school students to know that colleges are look at you when they send you marketable things or even emails.

“Step Up to College.” Home - Philadelphia Futures, www.philadelphiafutures.org/publications/step-up-to-college-guide. The Philadelphia Futures is a nonprofit organization in Philadelphia that has a college process magazine called “Step Up to College.” This source will help me better understand the college process on an educational level other than a personal. I can use resources and explanations on their website for my college process magazine. This source also gives me insight into what high school students want in a magazine and on a website and what is beneficial to donors and adults.

William Shakespeare has written many books that have captivated many audiences around the world. The book “The Taming of the Shrew” isn’t any different. It is a love story with a few twists and turns. The two many love stories are Petruchio and Katherine. Petruchio and Katherine were made in hell for each other. At first, they fight and Katherine doesn’t want the marriage until Petruchio “tames” her into submission. The other love story is one of love at first site. Bianca and Lucentio fall madly in love with each other, but not with others trying to take Bianca away from Lucentio. Bianca is Katherine’s little sister and she was pursued by two people throughout some parts of the book. Bianca chose Lucentio because he was true to himself, unlike her other suitors.

The movie “Marry Me” is about a woman named Rae Ann Carter who wants a fairytale kind of love. Throughout the movie, Rae Carter finds herself and starts to understand what true love is. During all this truth-seeking she also is being pursued by three men who want to marry her without evening knowing her or what she truly wants. In “The Taming of the Shrew” audiences only see a small part of Katherine and Bianca’s relationship, but it has bearing on the story because it dictates who gets married first. In the movie “Marry Me” Rae and her sister argue about marriage and what true love is and if it exists. The relationship Rae has with two of her suitors is the same as Bianca and the men trying to marry her. These texts show that people or characters fall in love with their “perfect” person to have a marriage full of love.

In the movie, “Marry Me”, Rae Ann Carter falls in love with three different men. The images above are from three different scenes of the movie, but in each scene, Rae falls in love with Luke(far right), Harry(middle), Carter(far right). Each man represents someone she should and shouldn’t marry out of love. Luke is the perfect guy because her family likes him, but he could be crazy. Harry is rich and can give Rae the dream of becoming a painter, but he is Luke’s best friend. Carter is her old boyfriend who she wanted to marry and he left her for frogs. Each man Rae wants to marry isn’t perfect. Rae is someone the audiences can relate to because when people fall in love they head over heels for the “right person.” Even Bianca who had two suitors chose the Hortensio because he was the guy she likes. Of course in Bianca’s story, she wasn’t in love. Rae in “Marry Me” is in love with guys she never thought existed. Every single guy is who she want’s and that is where “Marry Me” and “The Taming of the Shrew” aren’t similar. One book is about falling for someone who you like because of how they make you feel. Whereas “Marry Me” is about love at first sight with the perfect person.

In Shakespeare “The Taming of the Shrew” Bianca is being courted by two men Hortensio and Lucentio. They are disguised as tutors so they can get to Bianca better. Bianca does enjoy Hortensio and instead does n’t, like Lucentio.

In the book “The Taming of the Shrew” readers see Bianca for a few pages struggle with which suitor to choose. Bianca and Rae have similar stories, but that’s it. Bianca knows who she wants to get to know before the readers do. Bianca doesn’t fall for the right man. Bianca is a real-life scenario. Most people don’t believe love, at first sight, is real and so Bianca’s story makes more sense. Bianca likes someone and waits until after Katherine is married to elope with Hortensio. Although Bianca never knew Hortensio was actually Lucentio; he was still who she wanted minus the money. In some stories love at first sight is important to show audiences what it feels and looks like. Well, Shakespeare clearly decided to shake things up a bit. He decides in “The Taming of the Shrew” that love, at first sight, didn’t exist. He did it this way to show love comes with someone who you want; not things you know before you actually get to know them. This dilemma of knowledge about someone else’s comes up in “Marry Me.” Rae and Luke are at a restaurant and Rae says, “I don’t know you enough to marry you.” Even though both stories tell love stories very differently they each reflect each other in some way. Yes, “The Taming of the Shrew” shows know love at first sight, but Bianca says she has passions for Hortensio that could mean love or maybe the author wanted us to wait to find out they fall in love. Both texts could represent love at first sight, but only one shows how love to someone(s) can be difficult.

Rae Ann Carter has a sister named Trudy. During the movie, Trudy is pregnant, married and a divorce. Audiences are in awe of the sister’s relationship. In this scene, we are at Trudy’s baby shower with her friends. Rae is so excited about Luke. Luke is the guy Rae is falling in love with. She tells the group “He asked to marry me.” They all just look at her at first until Trudy says, “When will I get to meet him?” No one is perfect, so people say, but when your a man asking for someone’s hand in marriage you must be spotless. Trudy who is Rae’s sister doesn’t like Luke because he is wild and not boring. During the baby shower, the girls talk about how the perfect husband to marry is boring. That man should be boring or they cheat. In this moment of the movie, love, at first sight, doesn’t exist. It doesn’t exist because you must marry someone boring if you want to be a little happy. “Marry Me” often wants audiences to know all sides of a story. Unlike ‘The Taming of the Shrew,” after Katherine gives a long speech about how women should act towards their men every woman is looking at Katherine crazy because she used to be less obedient and submissive than them all. “The Taming of the Shrew” is a mans love story, not women. “Marry Me” is both a man’s love story and a woman’s love story. We see the stereotypes of how women think and then we see how men act when a woman doesn’t want them. The belief that someone is your perfect husband is insane. It’s insane because “love” teaches us that no one is perfect, which “Marry Me” reflects audiences. People fall in love at first sight because they believe that person is perfect to them.

In this scene of “The Taming of the Shrew” Katherine has tied down Bianca until she tells her everything she knows. Katherine is selfish of Bianca because she knows she can have any guy she wants and that she follows rules unlike herself. Although some people interpret this scene very differently. Some say it’s just a sister thing others believe Katherine is trying to show Bianca that she already loves someone. “The Taming of the Shrew” and “Marry Me” may appear to be drastically different. However, once someone is able to look past the obvious differences they will notice certain similarities. “Marry Me” and “The Taming of the Shrew” both have a sibling rivalry that is a result of love. In “Marry Me”, Trudy acts like she wants what is best for Rae. However, she does not want the spotlight taken away from her. Trudy is similar to Katherine in this regard because she faces sibling rivalry over marriage. Another way they are similar is because Trudy will start an argument, but audiences never realize where her ideas or her actions came from. Katherine is the same way with Bianca. Although Bianca doesn’t know who she’s going to marry or who wants to marry her; she shouldn’t be tied to a chair for people simply liking her.

“The Taming of the Shrew” and “Marry Me” may appear to be drastically different. However, once someone is able to look past the obvious differences they will notice certain similarities. “Marry Me” and “The Taming of the Shrew” both have a sibling rivalry that is a result of love. In “Marry Me”, Trudy acts like she wants what is best for Rae. However, she does not want the spotlight taken away from her. Trudy is similar to Katherine in this regard because she faces sibling rivalry over marriage. Another way they are similar is because Trudy will start an argument, but audiences never realize where her ideas or her actions came from. Katherine is the same way with Bianca. Although Bianca doesn’t know who she’s going to marry or who wants to marry her; she shouldn’t be tied to a chair for people simply liking her. All movies have a great beginning and a great ending, this is true. “Marry Me” isn’t any different. “Marry Me” shows first love at first sight by Luke, who is a man. In most stories, we don’t get the man and woman’s perspective. “The Taming of the Shrew” we only get a mans perspective on what is going on. The two texts differ in that love, at first sight, is a “womanly thing.” In comparing the two texts the scene where Luke says he will marry Rae is also like when Petruchio said he would marry Katherine. Now Luke and Petruchio are totally different characters. If anything Luke is more like Hortensio, but in this scene he is Petruchio. In this scene, it shows his wanting for something. Almost like if anything were to get in his way he would be angered just like Petruchio. Love, at first sight, exists in men as seen in “Marry Me.” Love at first sight also must be with someone people don’t realize is the person they always dreamed.

Each text tells a different version of love at first sight. Sometimes each text also disproves that love at first sight exists, but each story show’s that someone a character likes or is “perfect” for them is who they should marry. In “The Taming of the Shrew” Bianca doesn’t choose Hortensio because he is the obvious choice, but she has strong feelings for him and wants to explore them. “Marry Me” Rae isn’t any different with her three suitors who she loves sometimes and sometimes she is confused about what is she wants. People have to like or have strong feelings for someone or believe they do to have experienced love at first sight; that is dictated by “Marry Me.” Both texts are different and similar when it comes to love, but they can agree that people must have the perfect person to have a marriage of love.