Part of being successful in high school is developing good working relationships with teachers and counselors. Here are some past posts on how to do just that: Things teachers notice about you in class A guideline for parents on how to communicate with teachers over email A post for students on how to get (and earn) […]
Read More >The power of positive thinking
I’m typing this entry on my phone. It’s not the easiest way to write a blog, and it might even lead to a typo or two. But my laptop is in someone else’s possession now. Yesterday, someone broke into my house in broad daylight and made off with a few good items. I remembered reading […]
Read More >A helpful college search tool
For students doing their college searches or for the counselors who are helping them, Katie Konrad Moore in our Bellevue, Washington office shared this with our Collegewise counselors yesterday: a tool from The Chronicle of Higher Education called “Who Does Your College Think Its Peers Are?” You select a college, and it tells you not […]
Read More >Join us for a free Collegewise seminar
Our Collegewise counselors are offering free college admissions seminars for students and parents in the locations listed below. These aren’t sales presentations. Our speakers work really hard to prepare seminars that send attendees away with insightful, useful advice about how to plan a more successful, less stressful college admissions process. If you give these speakers 90 […]
Read More >Face stress head on
The most important thing for you to work on is often also the thing that’s causing you the most anxiety. And the longer you ignore it, the more stress it causes. It lingers there on your to-do list just reminding you that you have to face something you’d rather ignore. When I’m feeling overloaded with […]
Read More >Who’s driving the bus?
Bus passengers know where they want to go, but are passive observers in getting there. The driver is actually in charge. The most successful college planning happens when kids drive their own bus. They don’t have to do it alone. Parents can guide, encourage, and cheerlead from the sidelines. But if Mom and Dad research […]
Read More >It’s not a job interview
If you arrive precisely on time at my brother-in-law’s house for a dinner party, he’ll admonish you with the phrase, “It’s not a job interview!” He’s usually not prepared for on-time arrivals. After all, a dinner party is an informal affair. No need to operate with down-to-the-minute precision. College interviews aren’t job interviews, either, but […]
Read More >What would you like to learn from Collegewise?
I’m working with a group of Collegewise counselors to offer a series of free college admissions webinars. We’re considering presentations on a variety of topics, from women’s colleges, to admissions survival for parents, to tools and tips for high school and private counselors. If you’d like to suggest a subject for consideration, just email me. […]
Read More >How to learn financial aid terminology
Esoteric jargon makes the financial aid process much more complicated than it needs to be, especially when those terms appear on every description, instruction, form, etc. Mark Kantrowitz of Edvisors offers up this 1-page glossary of financial aid terms, with a full list of over 750 terms here. To use them, I have a few suggestions for families and […]
Read More >Don’t leave talent on the table
Who decides what your club, organization, or division will work on next week? If you have a weekly meeting where someone in a leadership position makes those decisions, you might be leaving a lot of talent on the table. At our Collegewise Austin meetup, Paul, Arun and I presented six broad subjects and asked the […]
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