David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of Ruby on Rails (the software framework behind Twitter), founder & CTO at Basecamp, New York Times best-selling author of Rework and Remote, and a Le Mans class-winning racing driver. His first piece of advice to start-up founders, which he shared during this interview: “Do great work. Work you […]
Read More >$700 bounty if you find our next college counselor
We’re hiring full-time college counselors in the locations listed below. If we hire someone that you send us, we’ll pay you $700. It’s one bounty per hire, paid after three months of successful employment. Openings for full-time college counselors: Austin, Texas Irvine, California Newton, Massachusetts Pasadena, California We work hard, we love what we do, […]
Read More >How to make group brainstorming work
If you’ve ever tried to do any type of brainstorming with a group—something where you come together to share ideas in the hopes that you’ll come away with some exciting new projects or improvements—you’ve likely found that three things always happen in those meetings: 1. The talkers dominate the conversation. 2. The “here’s why this […]
Read More >National college fair schedule
Every spring, the National Association for College Admissions Counseling sponsors college fairs across the country. Here’s the 2016 schedule. And before you attend, you might review this past post with some college fair “don’ts.”
Read More >Use the (admissions) study guides
The only thing more helpful than your teacher sharing the test questions one week before the exam would be your teacher sharing the questions to every upcoming exam at the beginning of the school year. Then you wouldn’t just know what to review; you’d know what to learn. You’d get it right the first time. It would be the […]
Read More >New to the college advising role?
If you’ve recently moved into your first position where you can help students find their way to college, there’s a good chance you haven’t had much (or any) training. Maybe you’re a new college counselor who’s still learning the ropes of admissions? Maybe you’re a teacher at a charter school who wants to do even more to […]
Read More >“A” for effort
A 4.0 (or greater) GPA may look perfect on paper, but colleges will still look at the classes that you took to achieve that number. If you avoided opportunities to challenge yourself in the name of protecting your GPA, you haven’t demonstrated the same abilities as the student who may have earned fewer A’s, but […]
Read More >The class experience hierarchy
Students, in every class you take, you are part of the experience. And you get to decide what part you’ll play. The disruptive student detracts from the course experience. The pleasant student who prefers to achieve quietly, almost anonymously, exists within—neither improving nor detracting from—the course experience. The driven student who works hard and earnestly […]
Read More >The most important factor in collegiate outcomes
The Washington Post reports that the Gallup Organization is launching an initiative to certify colleges based on the well-being of their graduates, defining well-being as “being happy, comfortable, and satisfied” in five areas: “social, financial, sense of purpose, connectedness to their community, and physical health.” Gallup’s research indicates that “just 11 percent of college graduates […]
Read More >Past actions vs. current words
My cynical side always does some eye-rolling when a public figure profusely apologizes after being caught in a crime, cover-up, or other scandal. Of course you’re sorry now. You got caught. You’re being forced to answer for what you did. And the only way to have any chance of emerging and continuing your career is […]
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