If I meet you at a conference, we have a nice chat about the school you run, and I get home to find I’m now receiving your school’s email newsletter, what is the outcome you’re hoping for? I just can’t imagine that spamming people is an effective way to build professional relationships that ever lead […]
Read More >When parents write recommendation letters
Time Magazine ran a story recently about a growing trend: colleges—including Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Holy Cross in Massachusetts and the University of Richmond—asking parents to submit letters of recommendation on behalf of their student. That’s a lot of pressure on a parent. So if you’re invited to submit a letter of recommendation for your son […]
Read More >Employment advice for recent college grads—and current high school kids
First, some employment perspective for recent (or soon to be) college grads: I feel for you. It’s a rough job market, I know. A recent Rutgers University study revealed that only 51 percent of students who have graduated from college since 2006 have a full-time job. Eleven percent are unemployed. It’s not going to be […]
Read More >No unnecessary written words
I’ve been reminded while revising my next book that great writing eliminates all unnecessary words. I thought I’d been following the rule, but every page my editor sends back to me makes it clear that I need a refresher course. Here are some examples of the edits, some more needlessly-wordy than others, all of which […]
Read More >What does “eligible for admission” mean?
Many public university systems (like the University of California) have specific requirements to be eligible for admission. It’s sometimes confusing to kids and parents who visit the “admissions” sections of those schools’ websites, see the formulas for grades and test scores needed for admission, and get the impression that meeting those requirements means they’ll get […]
Read More >Parents are reflectors
As much as teenagers may want to project otherwise, parents have an enormous amount of influence over their kids. That’s especially true with the college admissions process. I’ve noticed that parents who focus on all the bad news about how hard it is to get into a short list of highly selective colleges often have […]
Read More >Which one gets picked?
Two salespeople have equal track records. One wants to close the sale at any cost, whether or not the product and the customer are right for each other. The other actually believes in what she’s selling and wants to help customers make good decisions, even if that means occasionally recommending a different product all together. […]
Read More >On the value of a liberal arts education
I wrote a post last week where I mentioned a recent NPR story (Economy Puts Value Of Liberal Arts Under Scrutiny), a story saying that liberal arts colleges "have long had a rap of being a kind of luxury, where learning is for learning's sake, and not because understanding Aristotle will come in handy on […]
Read More >Should parents put money in their students’ names?
I know my college buddies and I are getting older when they start asking me for advice on the best ways to pay for their kids’ future college educations. Here’s a tip I shared with them at our mini-reunion a few weeks ago: unless you want to hurt your eligibility for need-based financial aid, don’t […]
Read More >Still need a college to attend this fall?
If you still need a college to attend this fall, NACAC just released their 2012 Space Availability Survey listing 375 schools that still have space, financial aid and housing available for qualified students.
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