I hope seniors are getting plenty of good college admissions news (and celebrating every one, whether it’s a reach school or a safety school). But if bad news arrives, here are a few of my past posts about how to handle it. How to handle college rejections Treat rejections like breakupsShould you appeal a college […]
Read More >Even some Harvard grads hated the SAT
In 2001, Time Magazine did a story called “Should SATs Matter?” In preparing the story, the magazine spent two weeks asking celebrities—including Alan Greenspan and Oprah Winfrey—to share their SAT scores. Just about all of them declined. As Conan O’Brien (a Harvard graduate) put it, “It has taken 20 years to forget the trauma of […]
Read More >You’re going to college with or without good test scores
As the juniors prepare to take the SAT/ACT this spring, it’s good to remember that your test scores are never the most important part of college admissions. According to the National Association for College Admissions Counseling “2011 State of College Admissions,” the top factors in the admission decision were (in order): grades in college-preparatory courses, […]
Read More >The benefits of being unreachable
Have you read a text message or an email while you were… 1. …quarterbacking the football team?2. …playing the flute in the orchestra?3. …performing a cheerleading routine at halftime?4. …giving a speech to run for senior class president?5. …delivering your rebuttal during a debate tournament? Of course you haven’t. The risk would be too big. […]
Read More >Is that your final (financial aid) offer?
One of the most common questions I hear from parents at my financial aid seminars is, “Is it true that it’s possible to negotiate a better financial aid offer with a college if another school has given you more money?” My answer is always that “negotiate” is probably the wrong word. You’re not buying a […]
Read More >Reed gets it right
From telling US News and their college rankings to “shove it,” to proudly declaring what it means to be a Reedie, I love the way Reed College goes against the college marketing grain. They’re more interested in finding the right students than they are in jacking up their number of applicants just so they can […]
Read More >The real deal on financial aid
I’ve written before about how much I wish more colleges would stop marketing and start being more genuine, that more schools should use their contact with students to help them make good decisions, rather than sell to them. Muhlenberg College’s “The real deal on financial aid” is a great example of a college getting this right. […]
Read More >College decision opportunities
Each admissions decision you receive from a college is an opportunity to do one or more of the following: Celebrate good news with your family. Be grateful for opportunities given to you. Gracefully accept disappointing news and move on. Offer heartfelt congratulations to someone who gets something you wanted. Recognize and thank people who helped […]
Read More >Read between the headlines
As colleges send out the last of their admissions news this month, expect to see the annual stories the press runs with all the admissions bad news. Acceptance rates dropped again. Accomplished kids are rejected. Gaining admission to college is more competitive than ever. But those headlines are almost always referencing a very short list […]
Read More >Was Amazon.com born from Big Macs?
Long before he started Amazon.com–the world's largest online retailer, before he earned over $1 million a year as a young star at a hedge fund, before he got degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton, before he graduated as valedictorian of his high school class… …Jeff Bezos spent one of his high school […]
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