Jim Collins, a professor at Stanford Business School, wrote a great book that studies history's most effective CEOs. And one of the traits he found that they all had in common was a desire to see the company become even more successful after they left. They did everything they could do to ensure the future […]
Read More >Look for fun, not facts, on your campus visits
Jay Mathews of the Washington Post (and the author of Harvard Schmarvard, one of our favorites) has a great take on visiting college campuses. I've shared it before, but since he's bringing the topic back up, I'll go ahead and share it again. Here's his latest post. His idea that you can just see what […]
Read More >Tip for counselors: how to get the most out of a conference
The counselors from our Irvine office are attending the annual WACAC conference this week. Good counselors and admissions officers spend a lot of time at conferences, so it's important to feel like it's time and money well spent. Here are a few tips we've picked up during our conferencing years that might help. 1. Don’t […]
Read More >Colleges with the best learning disability programs
Katie shared a great article with us about colleges with strong programs for students with learning disabilities. You can read the article here.
Read More >For counselors: A sneak peak at this year’s Common Application
This year's Common Application will launch on August 1, 2010. That's about a month later than it usually releases, which means that if you're planning any summer workshops where students fill out the application, you may need to adjust your dates. But you can take a look at the preview version here.
Read More >“Helicopter parent” is not a positive term
I had an interesting experience with "helicopter parents" last week. I'd just finished doing a seminar at a high school and three mothers approached me with a question. The elected spokeswoman of the group proudly announced, "We're helicopter parents–and we have some questions about helping our kids find activities this summer." Parents who support your […]
Read More >Easy steps to improve your writing
I just finished "Revising Prose," one of the best books I've read about improving your writing. The author is a professor of English at UCLA who comes right out and says that academic writing encourages excessive wordiness and that clear, concise writing is the mark of good writer and thinker. He teaches what he calls […]
Read More >Advanced essay training
Last night, three of our veteran "essay specialists" came back for some advanced training in the art of helping students find and tell their best stories, and how to do it ethically so we don't take over the process. If you work with students to help them with college essays, here are a few of […]
Read More >What students can learn from Major League Baseball
A lot of colleges' essay questions ask you to describe a time that you failed or made a mistake. Nobody is successful all the time, so colleges don't expect seventeen year-olds to be perfect. But they ask the question because the way you handle these circumstances says a lot about your character. Baseball fans saw […]
Read More >“Will my admissions chances improve if I pick an odd major?”
Occasionally, a family will ask us if a student's chances of admission will improve if she selects an odd major. The thinking here is that there are so many "business" and "psychology" and "engineering" majors applying to college, you might have a better chance in a lot less popular major, like "forestry" or "food science" […]
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