Hooman Katirai earned two masters degrees at MIT and is currently the founder and CEO of his own training company. Cal Newport is a Dartmouth grad, a computer science professor at Georgetown, and the author of several best-selling study skills books. And they both have found a better way for students to take notes. While […]
Read More >Collegewise has arrived in the Buckeye State
Collegewise counselor and former Cornell admissions officer Meredith Graham had a good run in the Boston area. But the native Ohioan felt the call to return to her home state in the midwest. And she is happy to announce that Collegewise – Columbus is officially open for business. Residents of the Columbus area, if you’d […]
Read More >Avoiding the overparenting trap
Julie Lythcott-Haims, who spent ten years as the Dean of Admission at Stanford, has a book coming out in June (available now for pre-order) called How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success. Her TED talk, just four minutes long, is also worth a watch.
Read More >Collegewise in schools
Our own Chris LaBounty got some nice press in the South Jersey Times recently for work he’s doing at Salem High School along with our friends at The Princeton Review. Life as an independent counselor can occasionally feel a little solitary (even when we work within an organization like Collegewise), so we jump at every chance we […]
Read More >Plan your standardized tests
Before we became business partners at Collegewise, Paul Kanarek spent 30 years with The Princeton Review teaching students, parents, and counselors about standardized tests. His overarching message is always the same—test scores do not define a student, but with smart planning and a little perspective, anyone can become a better standardized test-taker. As part of […]
Read More >Always welcome
Here’s a 2012 Today Show segment featuring teen psychologist Madeline Levine who 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’. Even before recently becoming a new parent myself, I knew there was no manual my wife […]
Read More >Temporary setbacks
Some setbacks have staying power. If you get convicted of a felony, that record is going to stay with you for a long time. You can’t refund your life savings overnight if you lose it in a bad investment. These are long-term setbacks. Particularly bad cases may even be permanent. But almost every perceived setback […]
Read More >Manage yourself
The Gallup Organization’s groundbreaking book on management, First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently, says that while the greatest managers have very different styles, there is one crucial insight that they all share: “People don’t change that much. Don’t waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try […]
Read More >Thank a school counselor
Compared to what high school counselors contend with on a daily basis, we have a pretty easy gig at Collegewise. Collegewise counselors have one job—college admissions advising—and it takes us all day, every day, to keep up with it. We’re not expected to save the kid who’s flunking out of 10th grade. Students don’t come […]
Read More >Find the fun where it’s offered
Jay Mathews of the Washington Post offers up his usual dose of college admissions sanity in his recent article about planning college visits. “Thirty years of interviews with teenagers, their parents and admissions officers about this process — plus my experience with my own three children — lead me to conclude that campus visits are […]
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