Cutting out even a few expenses and redirecting that money to a college savings plan can add up to a significant college fund. Here are some expenses many families can minimize or eliminate altogether. • Vacations According to surveys by AAA, "Money Magazine” and Visa, the average American family spends $1,000 to $1600 on a […]
Read More >It’s just a date
When a Collegewise family experiences some anxiety about whether or not a particular school should go on the student’s list, we remind them that applying to a college doesn’t necessarily mean the student must go there. You should always have good reasons for applying to any school, and you shouldn’t go crazy and apply to […]
Read More >Communicate like a human
Author Daniel Pink’s blog has many posts sharing what he calls “Emotionally intelligent signage.” Pink describes these signs as either: (1) Demonstrating empathy with the viewer, like this sign on the other side of an airport security screening: (2) Encouraging empathy on the part of the viewer in order to gain compliance with a rule, […]
Read More >Will this be worth it?
A parent asked me yesterday if the full IB program at her son’s school is “worth it.” The answers to most questions about whether a class, activity or task in high school is “worth it” depend on what “worth it” means. For a lot of students and parents, “worth it” ultimately means an admission to […]
Read More >Tips on Writing from David Ogilvy
David Ogilvy, founder of the international advertising agency, Ogilvy & Mather, is regarded as the father of modern advertising. On September 7th, 1982, he sent a memo entitled “How to Write” to everyone in the agency. Here are a few gems: The better you write, the higher you go in Ogilvy & Mather. People who […]
Read More >How to email posts from this blog
If you click the "Email this" link at the bottom of any of my posts, you then have to enter your email address and the recipient’s address, then enter the letters that appear in that virtually indecipherable squiggly writing used to keep spammers from hacking the content. Turns out, you can’t send the email to […]
Read More >For struggling seniors
If you’re a senior who’s not as close to finishing your applications as you’d like to be, here are a few past posts to help—one to help you fight procrastination, another to help you avoid typical application stalls, and one for parents who want to support without nagging.
Read More >How can your college help you land the right job?
Among the students who graduated from college in 2010, just 56 percent managed to get a job by the following spring. That compares with 90 percent of graduates from the classes of 2006 and 2007. (Here’s some data if you want to dig into it). Yet I met a recent college grad yesterday with a […]
Read More >Where you go vs. what you do
From today's entry on the Freakonomics blog: Your choices in college matter more than your choices of college, so choose wisely. We have found that too many students were more strategic and calculating about getting into college than they are about getting out. It is almost as if they have been programmed to believe that […]
Read More >For private counselors: How to treat someone who can’t be your customer
I got an email this week from a college student looking for assistance applying to business school. She’d been referred to me by a Collegewise family who was hoping I could help this student like we helped the family’s son apply to college. But we don’t do business school admissions advising. I don’t know anything […]
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