I 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 MOREThe spring semester is just underway; and if getting back into the swing of things after the thrilling holidays isn’t enough, I have another chore for your long list. Identify meaningful summer activities for your teen. The reason “meaningful” is...
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 MOREBack in the day, I made a copy of a one-page application to East Texas State University, filled in all the blanks and dropped it in the mail. A couple weeks later an acceptance letter arrived and my next four years were set. Fast forward 38 years...
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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