It has taken me 11 years to come up with a good answer to a question that is posed to me on a regular basis. “What can I do to begin preparing my child for college prior to high school?” Because colleges are not interested in what students did...
READ MOREEveryone knew it was coming. The Echo Boom in the US population was set to peak around the year 2013. After holding steady for a year or two, the number of students graduating from high school would begin a steady decline. That decline is now in...
READ MOREI recently perused a short article written by Elizabeth Levine that dealt with the most common mistakes on the FAFSA that are costly to the applicants. It surprised me to see what was included in the top 10 mistakes. I understand the confusion of...
READ MOREIt’s not as anxious or stressful as all that for the students I know. We have been working for months around projects, extracurricular activities, AP testing, entrance exam testing and final exams to piece together all the information they will...
READ MOREBy Samantha Schmidt June 5 at 4:32 AM The campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (Lisa Poole/AP) The Facebook messaging group was at one point titled “Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens.” It began when about 100 members of Harvard...
READ MOREBefore I begin, just let me say that I do not want to crush anyone’s dream – maybe just enhance it a bit. After a decade of college planning and four decades of working with teens and young adults, an uncomfortable trend has become more evident...
READ MOREIf you have another year of high school left, you are probably thinking; those lucky seniors, they get to go off to college instead of coming back to high school… Well, they will probably have a more exciting fall than their high school...
READ MOREI wonder if the warring camps on both sides of the concealed carry laws on college campuses see the irony of the recent attack at the University of Texas. The knife-wielding assailant was neither carrying a gun nor could he have been stopped by a...
READ MOREI attended the TACAC (Texas Association of College Admission Counseling) conference last week in San Antonio, TX. It was billed as a Super Conference because the Rocky Mountain and Southern associations were also invited. The “Super” part lived...
READ MORELast week I spent an entire day at the National College Fair in Houston. An entire exhibit hall was filled with colleges. Some from outside the US… This mass gathering of schools highlighted the fact that there is a college for anyone who wants...
READ MOREWhat is your opinion of the Top 10% law? Actually, it is the Top 10% except for UT, law. Well at least a couple lawmakers don’t think much of it. They have filed a bill that would do away with automatic admissions into state universities. Why...
READ MOREIf you are not familiar with the event, ‘Calf Scramble’ then you have not paid much attention to any of the big livestock shows in Texas. This is the event that releases young calves into the rodeo arena to be pursued by about three times as many...
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