"Don’t get your heart set on one school when you’re applying. You might think there’s only one school for you, but wherever you end up, that’s probably where you should be." "(Californian students) Stop worrying so much about the cold weather back east. It’s just snow. People deal with it. Geez!" "When you tour colleges, […]
Read More >Unsolicited Life Advice for Teens
We're not in the life-coaching business here at Collegewise. But every now and then, we find ourselves passing along some life lessons to the teenagers whose college applications we're reviewing. And like so many adults, we're life-qualified only because we've had the luxury of just being on the planet a little longer with more time […]
Read More >July News for Friends and Family
Never to be sold on EbayI always wonder if the celebrities actually visited the stores where I see their signed photos; I mean, did Jerry Seinfeld really bring his clothes to my dry cleaner in Irvine, CA? But you don’t have to wonder if the signature on the front of this Collegewise brochure is legit. […]
Read More >5 Things Colleges Would Like You To Be
Good grades. High test scores. A rocket arm that can throw a football to a receiver who’s running a fly pattern in a different zip code. All of those things are appealing to colleges. But there are some qualities colleges would like you to have that don’t necessarily involve superior intelligence) or the ability to […]
Read More >Seniors: Get Ahead While Relaxing This Summer
Seniors deserve some downtime during the summer. Relax. Soak up some sun. Eat potato chips. But if you follow these five tips this summer, you’ll be the envy of your fellow seniors later this fall when they’re running to meet deadlines and the only running you’re doing is to work off all those potato chips […]
Read More >When in. . .San Luis Obispo
My weekend camping trip in Big Sur was interrupted by a voluntary evacuation due to wildfires. So what was supposed to be a second night in Big Sur became a night in San Luis Obispo, and predictably, an impromptu visit to Cal Poly. I don’t expect high school students and parents to have the same […]
Read More >15 seconds of social entrepreneurial fame
For the last four years, we’ve spent some portion of our summers volunteering at College Summit, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping under-resourced students get into college. And nobody here has spent more time and energy helping College Summit kids than Jennifer. So we were exchanging some group high-fives when College Summit was featured in […]
Read More >And the college trivia contest winners are…
Not too many people get really, really excited about college trivia like we do. But those who do certainly fared well in our college trivia contest in which we promised one month’s worth of free groceries to the person who fed us the tastiest morsel of college trivia. And the winner is: Grand Prize Tim […]
Read More >We’re giving away a month of free groceries to the person who feeds us the best morsel of college trivia!
Share your tastiest tidbit of college trivia for a chance to win free groceries for a month! What’s this contest all about? It’s about reminding high school kids that great experiences happen at every college, including at some in Delaware. It’s about celebrating what the US News college rankings don’t consider, like the math majors […]
Read More >5 Tips for High School Academic Success
You don’t need to read our blog to know that getting good grades will help you get into college. But here are five tips you might not have thought of, tips that anyone from “A” students to “C” students can use to be more successful in high school. Space 1. Get to know your high […]
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