Now that our new Mill Valley, California office is up and running, we're kicking off our arrival to the San Francisco Bay Area with two free "Secrets of College Admissions" seminars in the next week. All of the info is here. If you live in the Bay Area, we'd love to see you there. I […]
Read More >A testing assignment for juniors
Juniors, May 7 is the last day to register for the June 1 SAT or SAT Subject Tests. While I don’t recommend taking the SAT on that date unless you’ve yet to take it (juniors tend to be exhausted at the end of the year and adding another standardized test to your plate is worth […]
Read More >Course selection considerations for seniors
As the juniors wrap up 11th grade and prepare to rule the roost at school, here are four course considerations when planning your senior year classes: Will you be: …taking A.P English?…taking a fourth year of math?…taking a fourth year of foreign language?…completing the lab science sequence (biology, chemistry and physics)? The more competitive the […]
Read More >Start a conversation
One of the best ways a private counselor, college, or even a student can market themselves is to earn the right to have a conversation with someone. You might meet someone you don’t know at a dinner party and start a conversation. That’s a first step. If you like each other, you might exchange emails […]
Read More >Welcome Shantá Lindo to Collegewise
Today, I’m excited to welcome Shantá Lindo to Collegewise as the director of our soon-to-be-opening office in Syosset, Long Island. Who is Shantá? Since graduating from Middlebury College in 2010 (where she attended on a full tuition scholarship from the Posse Foundation), Shantá has been working as an assistant director of admissions in Middlebury’s admissions […]
Read More >Put a little voice into it
Whether you’re writing a college essay, an announcement for your club, or even just an email, don’t just get the words onto the paper. Put a little voice into it. I’m all for being professional and polite when you should be. But that doesn’t mean you have to leave your voice out of your writing. […]
Read More >Open for business in the San Francisco Bay Area
The ink is dry on the lease for our new office space, and Collegewise is officially open for business in Marin County, California. If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area and would like to learn more about how we might be able to help your family enjoy the ride to college a bit […]
Read More >Don’t give all the power to the pickers
Seth Godin has two good entries this week about the danger of waiting to get picked (#1 and #2). Here’s the bullet: If you spend all your time and energy working to get picked, whether it’s trying to sell your book idea to a publisher or working like crazy to get into an Ivy League […]
Read More >Five ways to encourage younger students
A friend who is volunteering as a mentor for a 7th grader asked me yesterday, “What’s the best way to help a student understand why school is important?” I don’t think there’s an easy answer, but here are things I encouraged her to try, all of which I’d recommend to parents of high school students, […]
Read More >A good date to start saving for college
May 29th is (apparently) National College Savings Day, the significance of which is that "5/29" refers to the college savings programs named after section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code. 529 plans are a tax-advantaged investment program designed to encourage saving for college. Parents can designate their beneficiary while retaining ownership of the money, and […]
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