I recall a B/C Collegewise student several years ago who in response to an essay prompt that asked him to describe his favorite activity wrote about the weekly poker nights he hosted at his house. What made the activity—and the essay—so great was not the poker, but the makeup of the group. As he described […]

The leadership at Collegewise had a mutual realization this week—we were starting to become too ASAP-driven. Not in the work that our counselors do with students—great counseling demands that we balance the reality of application deadlines with the counseling discipline to be deliberate, thoughtful, and precise in our work with students. But over the last […]

Last week, the president of United Airlines sent a memo to their more than 80,000 employees promising “an exciting new rewards program.” The company was eliminating the quarterly bonuses they paid to employees who hit their performance targets. Instead, those employees would now all be entered into a lottery from which one randomly selected person […]

It hasn’t been a good few weeks for David Coleman, the president of the College Board. As reported in the press and discussed with incredulity among the counseling community, Coleman penned a letter to the College Board’s members (which includes schools, colleges, counselors, etc.), ostensibly in response to the Florida school shooting, that many readers […]

My son’s current preschool and his likely future high school are both four blocks from our house. Every day, I see students from both making their way to their respective schools. And I’ve noticed a contrasting energy and eagerness to arrive. A lot of preschoolers are running toward their school while the teens are trudging […]