It’s Teacher Appreciation Week, and I’d like to use my Friday blog space to ask students and parents to take the time to express that appreciation to a teacher who deserves it. I’ll admit that I’ve got a soft spot for teachers. My mom spent 30 years teaching high school English, every grade and every […]
Read More >Do what you would do for a friend
Parents, how would you respond to a friend who told you, “For the last nine months, I’ve been working a minimum of 60 hours a week. And I’m so tired.” You’d probably be sympathetic. You’d show some compassion. You might even encourage them to take a vacation and lie on the beach for a week. […]
Read More >Free webinar: Financing Your College Education
Much like the process of applying to college, applying for financial aid can be confusing and stressful. Unfamiliar terms, conflicting information, complex application processes—it can all be so much more difficult than it needs to be. If you’d like some help making sense of it all, I hope you’ll join us for an upcoming free […]
Read More >The pithy versions
Futures are influenced, but rarely decided, in high school. The college you attend will matter less than what you do while you’re there. What will you do today to capitalize on the opportunities that present themselves tomorrow?
Read More >The right answer, or unknown answers?
New research led by Prachi Shah at the University of Michigan shows that curiosity—which Shah defines as “the joy of discovery, and the motivation to seek answers to the unknown”–is one of the best predictors of academic success in young children. It’s also one of the best predictors of college admissions success for applicants. Colleges […]
Read More >Webinar on highly selective admissions
I have no problem with prestigious colleges. My beef is with the obsession around them. This notion that you will find inherently better educations, experiences, or outcomes simply because a school turns almost all of its applicants away just doesn’t hold up. But plenty of students—including a good portion of our own Collegewise students and counselors—found their perfect match at […]
Read More >For seniors in need of a college…
If you still need a college to attend this fall, NACAC just released their 2018 Options for Qualified Students (formerly the Space Availability Survey), listing more than 400 colleges and universities that still have openings, financial aid, and housing available to qualified freshmen and/or transfer students.
Read More >When readers graduate
For most families, the college admissions process–whether it was anxious, joyful, or somewhere in between–has a natural end date. And once again, that end date arrived this week on the same date it does every year–May 1, when seniors decide where they’re going to college. This is also the week that the number of readers […]
Read More >Are you managing up?
“Managing up” is one of those buzz-phrases that’s both widely used and widely misunderstood. Traditional managing involves a person in authority asking a subordinate for updates, explanations, or other information. It’s someone reacting to a lack of necessary information, to something going wrong, or to another factor that has presented itself and is now a […]
Read More >The parenting report card
Julie Lythcott-Haims nails it again in this Q&A with Your Teen, particularly with this piece of advice: “If there is a parenting report card, it should be ‘Does your child do the right thing in the world, even when no one is looking or grading them?’ Their good character is the highest possible grade we […]
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