We just completed week one of training for our newest counselor, Stefanie. Each week of this training, I thought I'd share what our trainer, Margot, has been covering. Here's the syllabus she delivered for the first week. Topics for Day 1: Introduction to College Admissions and to Private Counseling This session will examine the intersection […]
Read More >What’s your role?
What's role on the baseball team, on the student government, or in the school play? You might say you're the pitcher, the treasurer, or Danny Zucko (if you're performing Grease). Those titles are important, but they're not your roles. Titles are easy to describe. Your role is a little more complex. Your role is different […]
Read More >Redesigning our testing calendar
I've been working (again) with Arun Ponnusamy from Open Road Education on several projects we'll be rolling out together over the next six months. One of them is to work together with our counselors to improve the Collegewise materials, and to start licensing those materials to high schools and private counselors. Here's an example of […]
Read More >Recommended reading for leaders
If you're a student body president, team captain, section editor for the school newspaper, or in any other role where your job is to supervise or lead people, here are three great books to learn the skills you need to be great at it. The One Thing You Need to Know by Marcus Buckingham Leadership […]
Read More >Are bright, well-rounded kids boring?
We're training a new counselor in our Irvine, CA office. Today we discussed highly selective college admissions–what it really takes to get into the most selective colleges. The problem with college admissions today is that all the highest achievers–from around the world–apply to the same 40 colleges. So schools like Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Duke, Georgetown, […]
Read More >Get a job
Colleges love an applicant who's had a job. And it doesn't have to be a fancy-sounding internship at your mom or dad's company. Colleges–and future employers–are even more impressed by real, honest teenage jobs, like flipping burgers or coaching basketball or selling clothes at the mall. Colleges know that it takes initiative and responsibility […]
Read More >Our students’ reward for finishing their applications
For counselors and companies: the importance of the first day on the job
People talk a lot about how employees need to make a great impression on the boss when they begin a new job. I think it's even more important for the organization to make a great first impression on the new employee. The last job I had before I started Collegewise got off to a bad […]
Read More >Coming soon for counselors–notes from our conference
We spent last week at a conference and I missed a few of my regular blogging days. I'm making up for them with some extra posts to fill in the gaps, but I also wanted high school counselors who read our blog to know that we'll by typing up the notes from the sessions we […]
Read More >Why thank-you notes are so great
I got a great thank-you note the other day. It was thoughtful and sincere and really made me feel like this person appreciated the (actually pretty small) thing I did. It was also, of course, totally unnecessary. But that's why thank-you notes are so great. They're unexpected and a nice surprise. They're free to the […]
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