I’m spending the holiday weekend with my three closest buddies from college—a doctor, an assistant dean of our alma mater’s schools of computer science, an owner of an employee placement company, and a founder of a college counseling company. There are a lot of benefits to college that you can’t read about in guidebooks, things […]
Read More >Five activity tips to start the school year right
Now that the school year is officially underway for many students, here are five tips to help you enjoy your activities this year and turn them into a college admissions advantage: 1. Make an impact. Passive participants do only what they have to do to stay involved. But students who make an impact want to […]
Read More >The value of character
If you’ve read the book or seen the movie Lone Survivor, you know the story of Michael Murphy, the Navy SEAL who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. During a vicious gunfight with the Taliban, Murphy, who had already been shot several times, left his position of cover and moved to an open area […]
Read More >Greatest hits: Back-to-school edition
In honor of students heading back to school, here are a few past posts to get you off to a good start: How to achieve your goals in school this year Become more impressive by doing less Five things you can start doing tomorrow that will get you better grades Back-to-school resolution suggestions for students […]
Read More >Which extracurricular activities are best?
The notion that there is a magic list of activities that inherently “look good” to colleges, and that participating in them will somehow work as a guaranteed admissions advantage, is a hoax. I’ve seen all kinds of students–from class presidents to bug collectors, newspaper editors to bongo-players, quarterbacks to fast food workers–have very successful college […]
Read More >Should you reveal serious struggles in an essay?
Your college essays should help an admissions committee get to know you better. Colleges understand that they’re creating a freshman class full of real human beings, not just a collection of grades and test scores. So the best essays give these readers a window into some part of your life that’s important to you, something […]
Read More >The science of attention
Casey in our East Bay, California office shared these snippets from a podcast with Adele Diamond, a neuroscientist at University of British Columbia, who studies child psychology and specifically the importance of the development of the prefrontal cortex: “But our research and others’ is showing that if the children have more time to play, they […]
Read More >Only human
In one week, I received 900 inquiries from people who’d seen our employment ads and wanted to work at Collegewise. We’re such a lucky company to have that many people interested in working here, and I never take that for granted. But more than half of those people clearly didn’t bother to read our postings […]
Read More >For counselors: application fee waivers
Arun shared this great tip with our Collegewise crew yesterday. Counselors, if you’re working with a low-income student and you’re a NACAC member, you actually can waive application fees. Everything you need to know is here.
Read More >Don’t wait to reinvent yourself
I knew a guy back in high school who got mostly C’s and didn’t participate in any activities. After graduation, he headed off to a college that admitted pretty much everyone and was generally regarded as a party school (a reputation he certainly did his part to maintain based on his tales from his freshman […]
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