{"id":2684,"date":"2018-11-20T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2018-11-16T05:34:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T10:34:27","slug":"students-take-the-pledge-to-apply-to-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/11\/20\/students-take-the-pledge-to-apply-to-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Students: Take the Pledge to Apply to College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XtemSMl29QM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Pledging to apply to college now comes with a bigger perk than simply reaching your higher education goals.<\/p>\n<p>November is National College Application Month and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettermakeroom.org\/laundry\/\">Better Make Room<\/a> wants students to pledge to get those applications turned in.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange, they\u2019ve arranged for a wide range of celebrities to do laundry for those who pledge.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If it sounds too good to be true, it is.<\/p>\n<p>These celebrities, including the likes of Nick Cannon, Camila Cabello, and Karlie Kloss, won\u2019t actually be doing any laundry, but they still want to encourage students to take the pledge on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettermakeroom.org\/laundry\/\">Better Make Room website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Need more information about the college application process? Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacnet.org\/news--publications\/publications\/going-through-the-college-admission-process-preparing-researching-applying-and-deciding\/\">college admission process guide<\/a> that breaks it down into four easy steps.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ashley Dobson is NACAC\u2019s communications manager for content and social media. You can reach her at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:adobson@nacacnet.org\"><em>adobson@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pledging to apply to college now comes with a bigger perk than simply reaching your higher education goals. November is National College Application Month and Better Make Room wants students to pledge to get those applications turned in. In exchange, they\u2019ve arranged for a wide range of celebrities to do laundry for those who pledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-admission"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Ashley Dobson","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/ashley-dobson\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-Hi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}