I had awards made for some of our Collegewise counselors and asked to have them shipped (the awards, not the counselors) to Austin for our company meetup. Two of the awards came out of the box with chipped corners. The damage was minor but it did take some of the luster off the recipients’ shiny […]
Read More >Make time for your counselor
Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, if you haven’t met with your high school counselor, take the initiative and schedule a meeting to discuss your college planning. Don’t make the excuse that your counselor doesn’t know you, or sit by passively simply because he or she hasn’t summoned you for an appointment. This is your college process. […]
Read More >Passion follows you
I’ve written before that while colleges love evidence of passion in an application, that passion doesn’t need to be something a student is committing to for life. Cal Newport has blogged about this, too, and even wrote a book about it. And in this month’s Inc. Magazine, Jason Fried, CEO of Basecamp, explains why “Look […]
Read More >College funding tidbits
A few college funding tidbits to send you into the weekend: 1. Good news on the college savings front, as the President dropped his proposal to tax new contributions to 529 plans. 2. For those families that were planning to increase your 529 contributions to beat the date on which new contributions would have been taxed […]
Read More >When “good enough” can be great
Seth Godin’s post, The Truth about Admissions, got our attention and generated some discussion here at Collegewise. We didn’t necessarily agree with all of his conclusions (particularly about widening the pool of “good enough”), but he does sum up the reality of highly-selective admissions nicely: “One in five applicants to Harvard and Stanford are completely […]
Read More >Collegewise company meetup: Austin, TX
All 37 Collegewisers descended on Austin, Texas this week for our first annual company meetup. Our mantra for the meetup: “Keep Collegewise Weird,” our own version of the unofficial slogan of Austin signifying all that is proudly (and self-describably) hip, unique, and not like all the others. While in Austin…. …we toured some colleges… …we […]
Read More >A meeting is not a decision
How many of your meetings end with a decision to have another meeting? “OK—let’s meet next week to discuss next steps.” “We’ll see everyone again next Tuesday.” “Add that to the next meeting’s agenda.” An agreement to meet again isn’t real progress. It’s a progress substitute, a convenient way to avoid making a decision about […]
Read More >Mix it up
One of the easiest and most effective ways to inject some energy into a group or organization is to surprise them by mixing it up. Do you usually hold one-hour meetings with your members? Make the next meeting 15 minutes. Do you have conference calls with your employees every Tuesday? Cancel them for a month […]
Read More >Behind the titles
What if the “Activities” section of college applications did not permit applicants to list the names or titles of the activities, but instead asked for a specific description of the impact students made within each commitment? You couldn’t list “Varsity Golf, “ but you could describe that you organized trips to the driving range during […]
Read More >The deadline isn’t the deadline
When any senior families will visit the financial aid sections of their respective colleges’ websites, many will note the deadline to file their FAFSA in order to apply for need-based aid. And while it is absolutely crucial to visit those sites so you know exactly how to apply (which often requires forms in addition to […]
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