Here's a snippet from David Heinemeier Hansson's Speech "Unlearn Your MBA" at Stanford. College applicants should take this advice about business writing and apply it to your college essays: I have a funny example…This is Domino’s CEO David Brandon talking a few days ago: ‘The weakness in our value chain was really in our core […]
Read More >Unveiling our new book cover
Here’s the cover for our upcoming manual, “Story Finders: How Counselors and Teachers Can Help Students Write Better College Essays (Without Helping Too Much).” We’ve finished the book and the formatting. It will be available for sale in September.
Read More >Application gimmicks don’t work
College application gimmicks are great for one thing—stories. Sending a box of cookies to the admissions office wrapped in a ribbon that matches the school colors is a gimmick. It won’t help you get in, but it’s exactly the kind of story that gets passed from one application generation to another. Just because the story […]
Read More >The problem with anonymous advice
A student at one of our free seminars yesterday asked: “Someone on an online college admissions chat I read said that it’s a good idea to insert a picture of yourself into your essay, or to say ‘thank you’ with a smiley face at the end, just as a way to make your essay a […]
Read More >Have a little fun, too
It’s sad how many high achieving students don’t have an answer to the “What do you do for fun?” question. (Not one that really makes them light up, anyway). Do you have an answer? Is it a real one, or just another reason to talk about something you think will help you get into college? […]
Read More >Show colleges your impact
Colleges want to know that you are going to be a contributing member to their campus community. That means that they aren’t just evaluating the activities in which you participated; they're looking for students who made an impact during their involvement. Sometimes the impact you make is big and noticeable. Other times, it’s more subtle. […]
Read More >Free workshops in Irvine, Calif., on 8/20 and 8/27
On 8/20 and 8/27 in our Irvine, CA offices, we've decided to film videos of Arun and me doing our most popular Collegewise seminars. Collegewise families and their special guests have already had the opportunity to register, but we've got a few seats left at two of the seminars (and we can’t possibly unleash our […]
Read More >An admissions anxiety antidote for parents
Parents, if you’re feeling anxious about your student’s college process, if you're worrying more than you’d like to worry about GPAs, SAT scores, and whether or not the dream school will say yes, try this. Talk to any parent whose recently graduated senior is now packing and preparing to leave for college. Some of those […]
Read More >For private counselors: when it can pay to assume the worst
We try to be optimistic about college planning at Collegewise. But there’s one time when we always assume the worst–when a family misses a meeting or two and doesn’t return our phone calls. Back when I first started Collegewise, a family that had just left another private counselor came to us. They had recently flown […]
Read More >Happy birthday, and a project update
Today, Collegewise is celebrating its 12th birthday. It’s hard to believe that in just two short years, we’ll be working with kids who weren’t born yet when I filed our paperwork with the County Clerk’s office in 1999 and started driving to kids’ houses to help them fill out college applications at their kitchen tables. […]
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