Last May, Megan Colford penned a column, A Senior’s Perspective: Success in High School, for her high school paper. She argues very effectively that the way to be successful in high school is not to focus relentlessly on pleasing colleges, but to do things you love, to create stories to tell, and to figure out […]
Read More >Grown-up time
I’ve often reminded seniors and their parents that the most important objective of a college interview is for a student to demonstrate that he or she can have a mature, relaxed conversation with an adult. Colleges reason that a high school student who can do this will be more likely to interact confidently and maturely […]
Read More >The learning at home
Fans of ABC’s Shark Tank may recognize Chris Sacca as the bearded, cowboy shirt-wearing guest shark who first started appearing this season. As the manager of Lowercase Capital, one of the largest venture funds in the United States, he was an early-stage investor in companies like Twitter, Uber, Instagram, and Kickstarter. He also holds both […]
Read More >Learned empathy
When I was in a fraternity in college, there were always a few fully-fledged brothers who went out of their way to give new pledges a particularly hard time, complete with the stereotypical hazing and screaming and generally doing whatever they could do to make the new guys’ lives miserable. When you’re a pledge, you […]
Read More >Middle school skills translate to high school
While written for middle school families, high school students and parents will find some good advice in this Washington Post article, Top 10 skills middle school students need to thrive, and how parents can help, by Phyllis L. Fagell. Two in particular (bold text is the skill students should develop): 3. Manage a student-teacher mismatch. Unless […]
Read More >Care about something
Potential is a powerful attribute in college admissions. But it can mean different things for different kids. Some students have already demonstrated their collegiate potential. Challenging courses, good grades, high test scores, impressive activities—they’re safe admission bets for most colleges. But other students have still-unrealized potential. For whatever reason, they just haven’t found the right […]
Read More >What is a successful college education?
Before he became the president of Reed College, John Kroger served in the Marine Corps (which he joined at 17), studied philosophy at Yale, was a federal prosecutor, wrote a bestselling book (Convictions: A Prosecutor’s Battles against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves), and was Oregon’s attorney general. For me, that’s more than enough […]
Read More >Cushioning the blow
Patrick O’Connor wrote this post specifically for students who receive bad admissions news from highly selective schools. But the overarching message at the end is an important one no matter where you’ve applied to college. It does matter where you go—just not in the way you think. And I’ll add this—the things that matter can […]
Read More >Change the question, change the conversation
Today’s college-bound teens are constantly asked some version of these three questions: Where do you want to go to college? What do you want to major in? What do you want to do for a career? Those are loaded questions for a 17-year-old who’s still trying to learn to parallel park. It must feel like […]
Read More >Lessons learned in Chicago
I mentioned earlier this week that I was traveling to Chicago to take a class with Jason Fried, CEO of Basecamp (formerly 37signals), on how they run their company. I’ve always admired and respected the way he approaches everything about work and business. While Fried’s company builds web-based software, which is not at all similar […]
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