Holding a formal leadership position isn’t necessarily the same thing as leading. Leading means seeing a future and rallying people to join you in reaching it, often without step-by-step instructions. One editor of the school newspaper might do all the basic requirements of the job, exactly as every editor before her has done. An editor […]
Read More >Packaging is for cereal
I’ve often heard students, parents, and some counselors talk about “packaging” a student for college admissions. The thinking is that a student, like a product, needs to be marketed, positioned, and presented in the right way to be compelling to admissions officers. Sometimes the packaging starts long before the application, with discussions about how certain […]
Read More >Reject it with me
Dr. Victor Schwartz is the medical director of The Jed Foundation, an organization working to promote emotional health and to prevent suicide among college students. Regular readers here won’t be surprised by my favorite snippet from his recent article, College Applicants: What Matters Is Not What You Think!: “Stop worrying about getting into that special […]
Read More >We’re opening in Philadelphia and D.C.!
It’s another great week at Collegewise, as we have two fabulous new counselors joining us—Lauren Leight in Philadelphia and Sarah Gloo in Washington, D.C. From their soon-to-be-official Collegewise bios: Lauren Leight College counselor Philadelphia, PA After graduating from Penn State University with both a BA in psychology and a master’s in counselor education, Lauren completed […]
Read More >10 application mistakes to avoid
For seniors barreling through the application season, here’s a past post with 10 college application mistakes to avoid.
Read More >On the value of college
Christopher B. Nelson, president of St. John’s University and an outspoken proponent of the liberal arts, thinks that we are looking at the value of college all wrong and that “the lens of economics distorts our judgment about the true value of education.” In that article, he also references the May 2014 Gallup study (which […]
Read More >Does your application team have their assignments?
For seniors working through your college applications, it’s easy to get so wrapped up in the work you have to do to complete them, you forget about the parts of the application that require someone other than yourself to complete them, like: Writing and sending letters of recommendation Forwarding official transcripts or secondary school reports […]
Read More >A public (speaking) service announcement
If you caught the postgame coverage of the World Series this week, you might have seen Chevrolet executive Rikk Wilde botching his post-game presentation in which he gave Chevy pickup keys to series MVP, Madison Bumgarner. Wilde, who was visibly nervous and sweating, lost his breath, something that happens when you’re nervous, particularly when speaking. After […]
Read More >Where to direct your admissions mental energy
If I could eliminate two behaviors that breed the most college admissions anxiety with virtually no positive return, here they are: 1. Becoming attached to outcomes that you don’t control, like getting into Northwestern or Rice or UCLA. 2. Closely tied to #1: experiencing failure before it actually occurs. That sounds like this: What if […]
Read More >On holistic evaluations
The University of Virginia’s blog comes through again, this time with one of the better explanations of “holistic evaluations” that I’ve seen–using the analogy of a puzzle. As the writer describes, “In a holistic review, you look at all pieces of the applicant’s puzzle together before you make your decision… As we read, the puzzle […]
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