Some high school students are so driven to gain admission to a highly selective college that they overschedule every minute of their days with classes, activities, tutoring, and volunteer work. These students have a tremendous work ethic, but they’re not having any fun. I don’t mean fun as in, “I like math—that’s why I take […]
Read More >Next for Collegewise: training America’s college counselors
At our recent company meet-up, I announced our most ambitious, exciting initiative in 17 years, one that I’ll be leading at Collegewise in 2016. We want to help train America’s college counselors. The background After 17 years at Collegewise, we’re lucky to count dozens (and dozens) of high school counselors as our close friends and […]
Read More >Got financial aid? How to compare your awards
As college decisions begin to arrive for the class of 2016, those who receive financial aid will also get their “award letter.” Colleges know not to bury the lead, so you’ll often see a bold line of text summarizing the total award package. Some colleges do a much better job of explaining this than others […]
Read More >Self-directing
At the “Advanced Highly-Selective College Admissions Training” held during our recent Collegewise company meet-up, Arun shared the following example of two students who decide to do volunteer work: One student plans to spend the summer volunteering halfway around the world because his parents paid $7,000 to send him via a pay-to-play program. Another starts cold-calling […]
Read More >Texting vs. writing
Students, when you’re emailing teachers, counselors, college interviewers, or anyone that you’re hoping will take you and your message seriously, never compose anything that reads like a text message. In fact, even your text messages to those people probably shouldn’t read like text messages. Texting is fine for just getting a point across to someone […]
Read More >Should parents or kids pay for college?
I’ve seen a few stories in the press debating whether parents should pay for their kids’ college educations, or whether the time has come to shift that responsibility to the student. But whenever possible, I recommend that students and parents pay for college together as a partnership. The student will be successful during and after college, […]
Read More >Don’t plan to be the exception
With so much discussion and misinformation about what colleges are supposedly looking for, one resounding truth always comes through: The strength of your course schedule and your grades in those classes are always the most important factors for admission. Yes, depending on the schools, lots of other factors, from activities to essays to interviews can come […]
Read More >Two questions to focus your meeting time
Today, the Collegewise crew will be departing for our second annual company meet-up. Since we work in offices spread out around the country, our meet-ups are the only time that we’re all able to gather in one place. But bringing everyone together is a significant expense, and we’re asking a lot of our employees to […]
Read More >Do you need to be a superstar?
I’ve probably referenced study skills author Cal Newport on this blog over a dozen times. But I’ve intentionally never shared his discussion of the “Superstar Effect” because I worried what high school students (and their parents) would do with the information. But I’m diving into it here with the hope that high school families will […]
Read More >Run your club like a business
Student organizations—from the honor society, to the school newspaper, to the choir and book club and Habitat for Humanity—are a lot like businesses. You have products or services that you’re offering. You have customers you hope will want and appreciate them. And you have both leaders and employees in charge of making it happen. That’s […]
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