By the third week in February, even the students who got started late working on their college applications are mostly done with the process. If there is still work to do, it is usually applying for scholarships. This form of financial aid could...
READ MOREIf you haven’t read the article published in the Washington Examiner on February 13, 2018, (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/exorbitant-admissions-consultant-fees-highlight-a-college-obsessed-society/article/2648956) you should. It doesn’t...
READ MOREI was impressed when a conscientious young client asked me about using American Sign Language (ASL) for his foreign language requirement. Having had clients take this route in previous years to satisfy the foreign language requirement for college...
READ MOREIn 2014 Slate reported that 55% of the first-time college undergraduates who stared their education in 2007 did not have a degree six years later...
READ MOREIt’s been an annual tradition for as long as there have been calendars. At the end of the year, most adults resolve to begin doing something they should have been doing all along or to change a habit or begin a new one. Resolutions come in all...
READ MOREThis year was the first time in almost two decades that the number of students graduating from US high schools did not increase. There are a number of factors affecting that statistic but it comes down to the number of students of graduation age...
READ MORESo, what’s going on with Harvard admissions? Don’t they want the best and the brightest students the world has to offer? Of course they do; they just want them in numbers that mirror the overall percentages of the population. This is where a...
READ MORECurious thing about words… Do you ever look at a word and wonder how it got its meaning? Well, it doesn’t take much imagination to figure out how deadline got its meaning. Civil War prisoners actually forfeited their lives if they crossed a line...
READ MOREIt’s easy to identify parents who have kids that are active and/or motivated to do things. Sooner or later (usually sooner) an activity list will begin streaming from their lips that includes practices, games, performances, recitals, tutoring...
READ MORENovember 1st came and went and the sun still came up on November 2nd even though you didn’t get all your applications submitted in time to beat the priority deadline. So, you won’t get a response from the college before Christmas. If that is the...
READ MORE“It’s October already, what do you mean you don’t know where you want to go or what you want to study”? Unfortunately, far too many parents, friends and counselors are asking that question this time of year. The students on the receiving end of...
READ MOREInterviewing with a college will likely not make or break the chance that a given student will be accepted into a university. There are always exceptions but few students would say or do something so ridiculous as to get such a strong reaction...
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