First, a disclosure: This entry's going to get a little personal. For the last year, I've been frustrated by what I felt was a decrease in my productivity at work. It wasn't from lack of effort. I was still working about ten hours a day during the week. I was busy all day. I wasn't […]
Read More >How to dramatically cut down your study time
Why is it that the most successful students, the ones who always get the best grades, often say, "I barely studied for that test." Sure, a few of them are just ridiculously, annoyingly smart, the type who seem to understand everything the first time it's explained to them. I always hated (read "worshiped") those kids […]
Read More >Good advice for teachers and counselors
From Steve Blank, an instructor at U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business, in his blog entry entitled, "Teach Like You're the Student”: Just pretend you’re teaching you. How would you do that? What would you want to know? What did you dislike when you were taught? What stories would you tell to make it understandable? […]
Read More >Collegewise turns 11
It's our birthday today, as it was August 16, 1999 that I officially filed papers with the County Clerk of Orange County to start Collegewise. At that time, the Backstreet Boys had the number one CD. Neither the Ipod nor Facebook had been invented yet. Google was still privately owned and (founders Larry Page and […]
Read More >What weddings remind us about college
Katie from our Bellevue, WA office got married yesterday. With the Collegewise counselors and the dean of admission from Katie's alma mater in attendance, this was the event to attend if you needed a little college admissions advice. But what I noticed most was the importance college experiences played in event. All of Katie's college […]
Read More >Ask Collegewise: What do you have against the highly-selective colleges?
Travis asks: “It would appear that there is a consistent theme on your blog encouraging students to look away from the best colleges like the Ivies. I was curious what it is about those schools that turns you off to them and why you think a student would be better served at a lesser college?” […]
Read More >Sizing a student up
Without seeing a transcript, test scores, or a resume, we can learn a lot about a student in 10-15 minutes. I can't necessarily tell where he'll get into college without more information, but I can tell whether he's going to be successful in the college application process, and even in life after college. Here are […]
Read More >How doing less can help you get into college
"More" has somehow become the mantra for getting into college. More AP classes. More activities. More work, more hours, and more accomplishments. But the sad truth is that you are never going to do "more" of anything than all the other students applying to college will do. So here's a radical concept–do less. Doing less […]
Read More >How to get into Stanford with Bs on your transcript
I can't believe I'd never found Cal Newport's blog until yesterday. He's a Phi Beta Kappa grad from Dartmouth who also got a PhD in electrical engineering from MIT in 2009. And he's the author of a new book, How to Be a High School Superstar: A Revolutionary Plan to Get into College by Standing […]
Read More >“Be yourself” is the only marketing advice that can work
I've written often on this blog that you have to be careful who you listen to when taking college admissions advice. Steve Singer, Director of College Counseling at Horace Mann School in The Bronx, is one of the people kids, parents and other counselors should listen to. I've heard him speak on panels at conferences, […]
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