With the early launch of applications, many motivated seniors have already received acceptance letters from colleges. But for those who have little desire to be first, the college application essays are still a hurdle to be cleared. Every year I...
READ MOREThat Can Be Dangerous When Planning For And Attending College By the time I had spent two years coaching families about how to realize the most success in college planning, it had dawned on me that the coaching wasn’t just for seniors or juniors...
READ MOREIt has taken me 11 years to come up with a good answer to a question that is posed to me on a regular basis. “What can I do to begin preparing my child for college prior to high school?” Because colleges are not interested in what students did...
READ MOREEveryone knew it was coming. The Echo Boom in the US population was set to peak around the year 2013. After holding steady for a year or two, the number of students graduating from high school would begin a steady decline. That decline is now in...
READ MOREI recently perused a short article written by Elizabeth Levine that dealt with the most common mistakes on the FAFSA that are costly to the applicants. It surprised me to see what was included in the top 10 mistakes. I understand the confusion of...
READ MOREIt’s not as anxious or stressful as all that for the students I know. We have been working for months around projects, extracurricular activities, AP testing, entrance exam testing and final exams to piece together all the information they will...
READ MOREBy Samantha Schmidt June 5 at 4:32 AM The campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (Lisa Poole/AP) The Facebook messaging group was at one point titled “Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens.” It began when about 100 members of Harvard...
READ MOREBefore I begin, just let me say that I do not want to crush anyone’s dream – maybe just enhance it a bit. After a decade of college planning and four decades of working with teens and young adults, an uncomfortable trend has become more evident...
READ MOREIf you have another year of high school left, you are probably thinking; those lucky seniors, they get to go off to college instead of coming back to high school… Well, they will probably have a more exciting fall than their high school...
READ MOREI am in complete agreement with anyone who believes that every individual is unique, special and different in many ways than any other person on the planet. But, most of us do have similar tendencies and one of those is our capacity to...
READ MOREI wonder if the warring camps on both sides of the concealed carry laws on college campuses see the irony of the recent attack at the University of Texas. The knife-wielding assailant was neither carrying a gun nor could he have been stopped by a...
READ MOREI attended the TACAC (Texas Association of College Admission Counseling) conference last week in San Antonio, TX. It was billed as a Super Conference because the Rocky Mountain and Southern associations were also invited. The “Super” part lived...
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