Give great performances in your favorite academic subjects. Earn the respect of your teachers and counselors. Find subjects or ideas that fascinate you and take steps to learn more about them. Make an impact doing activities you enjoy. Don’t do anything “because it will look good on my college application.” Have real interests—they make you […]
Read More >Update on our upcoming book
My editor and I just finished all the content revisions for my next book, still tentatively titled, "The Collegewise Way." It's currently 262 pages and covers everything we teach at Collegewise about finding, applying to, and paying for college. We're on track to release it both in print and electronically in July. If you'd like […]
Read More >Ask Collegewise: Do letters of recommendation need to be written well?
Kerry asks: We were thinking of asking my son’s AP Chemistry teacher to write him a letter of recommendation for his college applications this fall. However, the teacher makes many spelling and grammatical errors when I email with him. Should we choose a different teacher? My son has gotten A’s in chemistry both semesters, and […]
Read More >How to choose a major: a Harvard professor’s advice
Even in colleges of the liberal arts and sciences such as Harvard, an emphasis on majors believed to land a good job, or to favor being admitted to law, business, or medical schools, is usually justified by an appeal to 'utility,' to a supposedly clear-sighted appraisal of what the 'real' world demands of college graduates. […]
Read More >Have you done your course due diligence?
Students at Sarah Lawrence College interview the professors before choosing classes. It’s the college's way of allowing students to take charge of their education—to make informed decisions about what they learn and who will teach them. There’s no reason you couldn’t do the same thing in high school. Sure, you don't have as many course […]
Read More >For high school graduation speakers
Scott Berkun, author of “Confessions of a Public Speaker,” was on NPR yesterday offering advice for commencement speakers. While it focused on speaking at a college graduation, the advice holds true for any high school student speaking at your graduation next month. You can download the audio file below. And here's a past post with […]
Read More >Summertime on-campus college interviews
I once toured a college over the summer and noticed that one of the high school students in the group was wearing a jacket and tie. I’m guessing he was planning to take the school up on the offer to do an on-campus interview during his visit. But it was a scorching summer day, and […]
Read More >Is there a coming meltdown in college education?
Seth Godin and Mark Cuban, two pretty successful guys with an uncanny ability to predict the next big thing, have each written blog posts about the coming meltdown in college education. Both of them point out: College has gotten expensive far faster than wages have gone up. The average college education alone doesn’t automatically lead […]
Read More >How to get permission to email
Here's a good example for private counselors and other small businesses who maintain an email newsletter list. Allison in our Irvine, California office received this email from The North Face yesterday. I love this because: The writing sounds like a real human, not a corporation. Customers have to opt-in to receive their emails. The North […]
Read More >Free practice SAT exam
I’m surprised how many students sign up for test prep courses or tutoring before they’ve ever taken a full-length practice test. Don’t do it. Even if you know you struggle with test-taking, take a full length exam before you make a decision about how to prepare. Your result—and how it compares to the average scores […]
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