{"id":3123,"date":"2019-03-14T13:39:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T17:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2019-03-14T08:42:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T12:42:10","slug":"watch-college-signing-day-2019-qa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/03\/14\/watch-college-signing-day-2019-qa\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: College Signing Day 2019 Q&#038;A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3124\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/FB-live-college-signing-day-2019-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/FB-live-college-signing-day-2019-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/FB-live-college-signing-day-2019-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/FB-live-college-signing-day-2019-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/FB-live-college-signing-day-2019.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>May 1 is the deadline for students to accept an offer of admission at many institutions, celebrated as Decision Day or College Signing Day.<\/p>\n<p>Reach Higher, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary, is encouraging schools and communities to host College Signing Day events to help build a college-going culture and to recognize students\u2019 hard work.<\/p>\n<p>NACAC host Crystal Newby talked with Reach Higher\u2019s Eric Waldo about the Signing Day tradition and what it adds to the college admission process.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA college-going culture doesn\u2019t start your junior year when you start thinking about what colleges to look at. It truly is about a whole pipeline,\u201d Waldo said. \u201c\u2026College Signing Day is part of the celebration, but so much work happens before then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GPaenSEXq40\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last year, more than 2,000 schools and communities across the country organized Signing Day events for their students and Reach Higher is hoping to see that number grow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we should celebrate all of those decisions. It\u2019s not just about the people that are going to a four-year program,\u201d Waldo said. \u201cWe know that no matter what school you go to, it\u2019s going to have a life-changing effect on your life and that\u2019s also what should be celebrated. It\u2019s the fact that education and lifelong learning is what this is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GPaenSEXq40\">the full video<\/a> and download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettermakeroom.org\/collegesigningday\/\">College Signing Day kit.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ashley Dobson is NACAC\u2019s communications manager for content and social media. You can reach her at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:adobson@nacacnet.org\">adobson@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 1 is the deadline for students to accept an offer of admission at many institutions, celebrated as Decision Day or College Signing Day. Reach Higher, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary, is encouraging schools and communities to host College Signing Day events to help build a college-going culture and to recognize students\u2019 hard work. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/03\/14\/watch-college-signing-day-2019-qa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Watch: College Signing Day 2019 Q&#038;A<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[27,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nacac-video","category-value-of-college"],"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-On","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","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=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}