The 2012-13 Common Application was released last night, and barring Collegewise technical difficulties (to which we’ve yet to develop complete immunity), Arun and I will be releasing our revised and updated guide to the Common App later this morning. I’ll be announcing it here on the blog as soon as it’s up in our store. […]
Read More >Five rules for college application “division of labor”
I often see parents taking on a lot more of their kid's college application responsibilities than they should be. To maintain the right balance, here are five rules for college application "division of labor": 1. Students should drive the process. Parents can provide organizational support, encouragement, and a little cheerleading from the sidelines, but the […]
Read More >Remember your own advice
To parents who are: Talking excessively about getting your kids into “good colleges”Paying for the expensive test preparationFilling out your student’s applications or writing his essaysTurning the process into a status competition Communicating with colleges for your studentMixing up your pronouns and saying things like, “We are applying to…”Picking activities for your studentArguing with teachers […]
Read More >You get over “No”
I’ve heard people who went to college say that it changed their life, that they couldn’t imagine going someplace else, and they never would be where they are today had they not attended their alma mater. But I’ve never heard someone look back and say that being rejected from a dream school ruined their life. […]
Read More >Go private
I’ve heard from a few college applicants recently who are reluctant or flat-out unwilling to make their Twitter and/or Facebook profiles private. They resent the notion that an admissions officer would take the time to do a Google search and see what the Internet turns up. A student can debate all he wants as to […]
Read More >Practical tips on paying for college
Every time I visit finaid.org, I find something interesting and useful. Here’s today’s discovery: Financial Aid Wisdom: Practical Tips about Paying for College. It summarizes the most important things families need to know about saving for college, applying for financial aid and scholarships, and evaluating awards.
Read More >Think smaller slices
When faced with college essay prompts, a lot of students mistakenly think big. Big life lessons learned. Big impacts. Big epiphanies. That’s fine if you’ve experienced something transformative, but your college essays don’t necessarily have to be about something dramatic. We teach our Collegewise students that sharing a small slice of your life in an […]
Read More >Can you name that school?
Michigan State, Dartmouth, Pacific Lutheran, Drew, and UT Austin are five very different colleges. But it would be hard to tell the differences from the descriptions I pulled from their websites below. The only editing I did was to delete anything that mentioned the school's name or state. Can you tell which is which? 1. […]
Read More >Rethinking system messages
When we opened our little online store last year, it was important to me that we get all of the text right, from the storefront welcome to the descriptions of each product. I wanted it to sound like us, not unlike the way we tell our students to write their college essays to sound like […]
Read More >Three steps to getting money to help pay for college
The Choice blog just featured an interactive list of more than 600 colleges and universities that award merit aid. Published by Education Life, the higher education quarterly of The New York Times, the list includes the sticker price of the institution’s tuition and fees, the percentage of freshmen who receive merit aid, and the average […]
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