I know, I know… the college essay process is stressful! However, learning to appreciate, surrender to, and respect the art of revision as a high school senior will be terrific experience for your future writing (which will also require respecting and surrendering to the art of revision). You will be revising resumes, activity sheets, personal …
You know how we say that in college grades come first? Well, should that be the case? I mean, students attend college for any number of reasons: to become more empathic individuals, broader thinkers, deeper thinkers, more valuable citizens, more authentic human beings, better networkers, more career savvy, to learn how to reap the big …
What goes on and what stays off? As the August application frenzy hits its stride, many of my students are asking about the value of creating a résumé for college. “Why should I do more work,” they ask, “when the Common Application is happy with an Activities List?” The answer to that is, YOU may …
The psychology department at Dartmouth ran a little test: they administered a shortened version of the Psych 1 Final to new freshmen who had scored a 5 on their Psych AP exams, just to see whether they really deserved credit for the course without taking it on campus. The result-an astounding 90% of those who …
Sending your son or daughter to college means, in most cases, a shocking change in family dynamic. Perhaps you’ll walk by your child’s room for weeks wondering where he or she is, whether assignments are really getting done in a timely fashion, whether he or she is staying healthy and balancing the nightly social life …
Big college admission mistakes many high school students make when applying to universities Avoid them to increase your chances of getting admitted to your top choice school When you decide to complete only your Early Application and wait to see what happens in December before you write your other ten over winter break…That’s Not Brilliant! …
Seniors, we understand that your sense of privacy is, shall we say, flexible, but admission officers have flexibility too. They can check your fluid high school privacy on Facebook and Google at their discretion-without warning to you, and with possibly devastating outcomes. According to a Kaplan survey of college admissions officers, more than one in …
Know these warning signs of the stressed-out, over-caffeinated high school student. You Should Switch to Decaf If: You’ve been on Wikipedia for 23 hours and still can’t figure out why there was no Pope Sixtus VI in your AP Euro textbook. You’ve been studying calculus so long that the voices in your head have bodies. …