I 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...
READ MOREAll you lucky students out there who can listen in class and pick up everything needed to maintain an A average, beware. Members of your gifted group tend to struggle in college. It is usually that freshman year when the flow of information...
READ MOREI paid Dr. Armein Alsuezi (AKA Dr. A.) a visit this week on the advice of a business colleague. He is the owner of Brainy Learning Club in Katy. There are a lot of tutoring storefronts out there but I continue to have clients ask me if I know a...
READ MORENine out of ten people who ask me what I do for a living have a very similar question once they understand the nature of my business. It is some version of, “where were you when I was in high school” or “where were you when I was trying to help...
READ MOREI know that most high school students are only thinking about Spring Break right now but what you should have been thinking about since the end of Christmas break is what to do this summer. For all of you enterprising students who have secured a...
READ MOREFrom The Concord Monitor by Brennan Barnard “The college invasion.” This is how my high school seniors describe the scene on our campus each fall. Admission visitors – like extraterrestrials – arrive in their rental cars with big smiles and...
READ MOREThe starter pistol sounded when the Common Application essay prompts were released a few weeks ago. High School juniors all over the county have begun straining their brains in an attempt to write the perfect essay. That’s the first mistake...
READ MOREJust this week a gentleman made the statement that it would be a long time before he needed my services because his daughter was only in seventh grade. I didn’t have the time or inclination to burst his bubble but shared with him that fourth...
READ MOREI already knew that only about 20% of all students go to college, that almost half don’t have a degree after six years and that most don’t work in a career that utilizes their major. What I didn’t know is that more than a third transfer before...
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