Yesterday, I stumbled across a LinkedIn profile of a Collegewise student I haven’t spoken with since he finished our program almost 15 years ago. I remember him well. He wasn’t at the top of his class (or of the arbitrary high school social ladder), but he had good grades, participated in some activities, and most importantly, […]
Read More >On asking for help
Wharton Business School professor and author Adam Grant offers up his take on How Not to Ask for a Recommendation Letter. It’s directed towards college students, and it’s too late for this year’s crop of high school seniors to implement the advice. But I’m sharing it anyway because I think all students (and many parents) […]
Read More >Redefining success for kids
How we define success for our kids can actually end up harming them. Madeline Levine is a founder at Challenge Success and the author of Teach Your Children Well: Why Values and Coping Skills Matter More than Grades, Trophies, or “Fat Envelopes.” She’s also an advocate of redefining success for kids and not making everything […]
Read More >Their relief, and yours
Seniors, if your family just can’t quite put a Thanksgiving moratorium on college application talk, high school counselor Patrick O’Connor offers up some of his typically sage advice in Applying to College? Here’s How to Survive Thanksgiving. Here’s his suggested method for handling questions like, “Do you think this afternoon might be a good time to […]
Read More >Savor this time
Parents with high school age kids probably have one or more Thanksgiving routines. You know which family members visit whom, who travels where, and who cooks what dishes. And most importantly, you know that wherever you are, your high school student will probably be right there at the table with you. But as kids grow […]
Read More >Go college application-free this holiday
Last year at this time, I shared this piece from the Common App’s Scott Anderson, Make Thanksgiving a College-Free Zone. I’m reposting it again this year, as I can’t think of a better piece of advice to help families with a college applicant in the house enjoy their Thanksgiving together. “This week, as you gather with […]
Read More >Beware of application creep
“Feature creep” is continually adding new features to a product in the hopes of improving it and appealing to more customers, but ultimately resulting in something complicated and difficult to use, often impairing its ability to do what it was originally designed to do. That software program that forced you to upgrade, where the new […]
Read More >Who’s got ownership?
To have any chance of being completed successfully, every task or job, whether it’s a homework assignment or a huge goal for an entire organization, needs an owner, someone who takes responsibility for actually making it happen. It doesn’t mean that this person does it all alone. But if there’s no owner, it’s too easy […]
Read More >FAFSA assistance for first-gen students
Low-income, minority, first-generation college students are statistically less likely to apply for college financial aid even though they often stand to benefit most from doing so. Form Your Future is a campaign designed to reach out not only to the students in this population, but also to volunteers and educators who want to help families complete the […]
Read More >Lighting you up or burning you out?
Arguably the greatest hockey player who ever lived, Wayne Gretzky, believes that one of the worst things to happen to the game has been year-round hockey [for young athletes]. As described in this NPR story, To Get A College Scholarship: Forget The Field, Hit The Books, many high school athletes now play their sports year-round, with […]
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