When you have a question about whether to enroll in a particular class, like: "I don't want to take both AP Government and AP Chem. So which one should I take?" "Should I take a fourth year of language?" "Can I take AP Psych instead of AP Calculus?" Here's a good place to start: ask […]
Read More >College financial aid and divorced parents
If you have questions about how college financial aid is determined for students with divorced parents, who's expected to pay for college, and what (if any) financial obligations fall to the stepparent, spend ten minutes on this page from finaaid.org and you'll probably get all your questions answered (for free). I have yet to find […]
Read More >Want to make your college applications stand out?
Journalists can teach you a lot about college applications. Good journalists start their stories with a strong “lead”—one sentence that sums up the most important information in the story. Every sentence after the lead is less vital to the story than the one before it. So information is presented in decreasing order of importance. That […]
Read More >Put your confidence in the right place
Most students who feel confident about their chances of admission to a highly selective college are putting their confidence in the wrong place. 32,022 kids applied to Stanford last fall. 2,340 got admitted—a 7.3% admit rate. Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Brown, Duke—all of them have similarly discouraging stats. So whenever a student tells us that he […]
Read More >Good writing trumps good bullet points
Jason Fried writes in Inc. Magazine… Resumés reduce people to bullet points, and most people look pretty good as bullet points… Cover letters say it all. They immediately tell you if someone wants this job or just any job. And cover letters make something else very clear: They tell you who can and who can't […]
Read More >The process is more important than the outcome
The way you decide to approach any process—especially college admissions—is much more important than the final outcome is. Care enough about your grade in chemistry that you work as hard as you can. But if you still don’t get the “A” you wanted, be happy with your effort. You’re almost certainly smarter as a result […]
Read More >A simple college application tip for seniors
From Arun's comprehensive email to his seniors about how to start the Common Application: "Read the instructions. In life, always read the instructions." There's no better way to annoy an admissions committee than to ignore application instructions. Don't decide that you have a better way. Just read–and more importantly, follow–the instructions. And remember that following […]
Read More >A good way to investigate college majors
If you have the slightest idea what you might want to major in when you get to college, try this: 1. Pick five colleges you're interested in. 2. Go to their websites and find the listing of required classes for your intended major. 3. Read the descriptions of the required courses. What are you actually […]
Read More >Four tips for seniors before the Common Application goes live…
On August 1st, the 2011-12 Common Application goes live. If you're a senior applying to college, chances are you'll be completing this, given that there are now 456 colleges that accept it. Here are four things you should do before August 1st, courtesy of Arun at Collegewise. 1. Bookmark https://www.commonapp.org. You’ll be using it a […]
Read More >Five college planning tips for students with learning disabilities
At Collegewise, parents sometimes ask us if colleges will consider the fact that a student has a documented learning disability. And while the degree of consideration depends on how personal each college’s evaluation of their applicants gets, there are a lot of things LD students can do to help their chances of admission to the […]
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