Parents, while you’re out (hopefully) enjoying your barbecue today, take a mental inventory of your friends and where they went to college. In fact, you can do this pretty much any time. Are those who went to prestigious colleges happier and more successful than those who did not? Do they have happier marriages and better […]
Read More >Is college just what you do after high school?
In the 2002 comedy Orange County, high school student Shaun Brumder is denied admission to Stanford due to a transcript snafu in his high school guidance office. During his mini-meltdown, he has the following exchange with his spacey mother, Cindy: Shaun: I have to go to college!Cindy: Why?Shaun: Because it's what you do after high […]
Read More >Welcome Monica Del Toro Brown to Collegewise
We don’t intend to mess with Texas or Texans, but we are comin’ to Plano, Texas to open our newest Collegewise office. And we’ve just officially hired Monica Del Toro Brown to run it. Who is Monica? Monica graduated from Stanford (fear the tree!) and has a master’s in education from Harvard. Since getting her […]
Read More >Celebrate options
In April, I announced that we’d hired a great counselor to run our new office in Plano, Texas opening this summer (the fact that she was also a former Collegewise student just made it that much cooler). But before she was due to start, her employers made her an offer she couldn’t refuse, and she […]
Read More >Buffett on building a reputation
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” Warren Buffett, as quoted in Time Magazine Buffett may not have been talking about Tweets, Facebook posts, emails, blogs and any of the other ways you can ruin your legacy online. But […]
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Read More >Ten things I’ve learned from admissions officers
Here are ten things I’ve noticed in 2013 after interviewing over 100 applicants, most of whom have worked in admissions, to fill our open positions as directors of college counseling in our new offices. 1. I’ve yet to speak with a single one who claimed to enjoy denying students. 2. Even at the most selective […]
Read More >High school counselors: How can we help?
We want to create free guides, resources, and other materials for high school and independent counselors that will both help your kids and make your lives easier. We want to create the materials and then give them away. So, what would you like us to make for you? What do you wish you had that […]
Read More >Where can a hobby take you?
Last year, I wrote an entry about a former YouTube user, mjsokes, who’d earned millions of views for his videos that taught people how to play songs by The Beatles on guitar. My point was that by simply sharing what he knew, he earned a loyal following of fans around the world, fans who were […]
Read More >Make a “Not looking for” list
I’ve always thought that it’s not entirely fair to ask most students what they’re looking for in a college. It’s not that they don’t have some opinions, but asking a teenager who’s never been to college to present an itemized list of collegiate needs and wants isn’t often realistic. So if you’re struggling to find […]
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