Author Dan Pink offers this 2-minute video sharing some key points from Heidi Grant’s aptly named Reinforcements: How to Get People to Help You. And for more on this topic, here’s a past post of mine.
Read More >Incongruity
A student applying to college is trying to communicate: I’m ready and excited for college. I’ll make an impact inside and outside of the classroom. I’m resilient enough to forge through difficulties. I’ll take full advantage of the opportunities available to me. I’ll enjoy learning from and interacting with the faculty. I’m prepared for the independence […]
Read More >Make good bets
We tend to make better decisions if we separate the decision from the outcome. Imagine you’re walking to school. You’re confronted by an aggressive dog, so you move to the other side of the street. A car speeds past you and splashes muddy water all over your clothing. Did you make a bad decision moving […]
Read More >Engagement over selectivity
While the quality of the advice is far better than the quality of the audio, this 20-minute interview with Challenge Success’s Denise Pope, “Why College Engagement Matters More than Selectivity,” is still worth a listen.
Read More >Losing sleep
Overachieving, overscheduled students—here’s a scenario. Imagine your top colleges of choice announced their intention to give special admissions consideration to students who averaged 7-8 hours of sleep every night. Would you need to make changes in your life to maintain that advantage? If so, what would you do? Would you cut out that sixth activity […]
Read More >A free application webinar from Collegewise
If you’ve yet to finish (or even if you’ve yet to start) your college applications, Collegewise counselors Davin Sweeney and Rahsaan Burroughs are putting their combined 25 years of experience as admissions officers to good use in the following free webinar. Seniors, It’s Not Too Late: Submit Pitch Perfect Applications When Time’s Running Out Thursday, […]
Read More >Be fair to yourself
The most common misconception about the admissions process at highly selective colleges is that it’s a meritocracy, that the admissions officers choose the empirically best applicants based on a scientific evaluation of transcripts, test scores, activities, essays, and letters of recommendation. But that’s just not possible at a school that (1) receives applications from the […]
Read More >It’s what you do in college that matters
From Gallup’s “College Is Worth It, But Only If We Make the Most of It“: “This new research tells us there is much more we can all be doing to improve the efficacy and ROI of college. Students can’t just rest on their laurels after getting into college, but they must realize the hard work […]
Read More >The predictable fear before submission
One of the most predictable points of anxiety during the journey to college is the time right before a student submits their application(s). There’s a finality to that impending submission. No more revising. No more hand-wringing. No more avoiding the ensuing evaluation. Once that application leaves, it’s literally and figuratively out of your hands, with […]
Read More >Risk-worthy?
One of my Collegewise colleagues who worked in admissions at a highly selective college once described an occasion where he called an applicant to clarify something about a letter of recommendation that was part of her file. The letter had mentioned the student’s work in her junior year, but according to the transcript, she’d taken […]
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