My blog never gets more traffic than it does in the last week of December…right before many college application deadlines. If you’re a last-minute applicant and could use a little encouragement, here’s a past post that might help see you through.
Read More >A no-brainer decision
Too many families do not bother to apply for financial aid. They may think college is too expensive to even bother. They may worry that applying for aid could hurt the student’s chances of admission. They may assume they won’t qualify. None of those are good reasons not to apply for aid. Here’s another bad […]
Read More >A seat at the table
The family dinner table can really put everything in perspective, especially during the holidays. Take Christmas 1992, for example. 1992 was the first year my parents spent at home while both their boys were away at college. For the holidays, I came home from my senior year at UC Irvine, my brother from his freshman […]
Read More >Earn a “yes”
Here’s a great story about the founding of Under Armour, a multi-billion-dollar athletic apparel company. CEO Kevin Plank was a football player in college who wished there had been a better alternative to wearing a cotton t-shirt under his pads. So he bought some fabric at a shop about a mile from his college campus, […]
Read More >One parent’s take on standardized testing
Jon Boeckenstedt from DePaul University has something most parents don’t have—over 30 years of college admissions and financial aid experience. But like many readers here, he’s got kids of his own. John’s take on standardized testing, shared here on his blog in the face of his daughter taking the PSAT, is a refreshing read that […]
Read More >What are you doing today?
I love the advice from Jason Fried (CEO of Basecamp) in this article because I think it applies to far more than just business: “Instead of spending your time worrying about what could, might, or may happen, spend your time on what matters now. Are your customers thrilled with your service today? Is your inbox […]
Read More >Let’s see what happens
There are moments in my life I can recall vividly years later as a result of a mental snapshot I took at the time. Submitting my college applications is one of them. It was 1989, and I had to stand in line at the post office to mail my thick envelopes in the hopes of […]
Read More >When an apology makes things worse
This week, Johns Hopkins University sent 294 students an offer of admission…by mistake. What bothers me more than the mistake is the text of the apology. Dear ______, Earlier today, you may have received an email from us with the subject line: Embrace the YES! Please note that this email was sent in error. The […]
Read More >For parents: let them fall
Madeline Levine is a psychologist who works with teens and a founder at Challenge Success. In her book, Teach Your Children Well: Why Values and Coping Skills Matter More than Grades, Trophies, or ‘Fat Envelopes’, she uses a great visual to prevent over-parenting, one that every parent can identify with. Toddlers learn to walk by […]
Read More >On kids living life out loud
Casey forwarded this Seth Godin podcast to me in which Godin shares some interesting advice about raising kids in the Internet age where, through social media and the ability to both connect and share, kids grow up “living a life out loud.” It’s not unusual for a teenager to have connections with hundreds, even thousands of […]
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