My friend Paul Kanarek at The Princeton Review speaks weekly at local high schools on the college admissions and testing process. Lately, he's been pointing out that admissions officers really just want to know three things about applicants. 1. Are you smart enough to succeed here? 2. Do we like you? 3. Do other people […]
Read More >Are you indispensable?
I just finished reading an interesting book called "Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?" It wasn't written for high school students trying to get into college; but if you took its lessons and applied them to your high school life, I think you'd find yourself happier, more fulfilled, and more appealing to colleges. Here's the gist of […]
Read More >No fear of failure
I write and talk a lot about the importance of celebrating your strengths as opposed to spending all your time trying to fix your weaknesses. But here's a secret about smart, confident, successful people–they actually fail a lot. Those people don't like to fail, but they understand that the more often you challenge yourself, the […]
Read More >5 questions you should be ready to answer in college interviews
Most college interviewers aren't trying to test you; they're really just trying to get to know you better. If you're ready to give *good answers to the following five questions, you will almost certainly be prepared for just about anything you're asked. 1. Why are you applying to this school? 2. What's your favorite subject, […]
Read More >What Nike and highly-selective colleges have in common
Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player in the history of the game. When he came into the league in 1984, nobody had ever seen spectacular, high flying dunks like Jordan could do. He won six NBA championships. He was the league MVP 5 times. He led the league in scoring 10 times. He was […]
Read More >How important are PSAT scores?
I think students and parents need to find reasons to stress less, not more, about the college admissions process. The PSAT is a good example of this need. The stress students and parents feel regarding PSAT scores (which are being returned to students about now), is often totally out of proportion with the actual relevance […]
Read More >On the art of the complaint…
Seth Godin posted an interesting take yesterday about how to voice a complaint. It's a good technique with lots of applications for students and parents going through the college planning years. The message here is not to complain more often. I think the college admissions process needs less complaining, not more. But sometimes you do […]
Read More >Make your own value
The Today show ran this piece yesterday on the "Top 20 Best Value Colleges" which came from the results of a recent survey by The Princeton Review. Now more than ever, families are asking questions–as they should–about the quality of colleges in relation to their sticker price. Are private schools worth the money? Will my […]
Read More >Life advice from Steve Jobs
When Steve Jobs of Apple gave the commencement address at Stanford in 2005, the transcript made its way around cyberspace in a flurry of forwards. But nearly five years later, I wonder how many of today's high school students (and parents) have read it. I think it's worth it, so I'm posting it here. For […]
Read More >Attitude adjustments
While I was in the grocery store today, two teenage workers who were stocking fruit were griping to each other about how much they hate their job. It wasn't hard to hear them, as they were making no effort at all to keep their conversation private. So while I was selecting my apples, I got […]
Read More >- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 359
- 360
- 361
- 362
- 363
- …
- 380
- Next Page »