We posted many blogs in 2019 in our E-newsletter that goes out bi-weekly during the school year. These are the top 10 based on click throughs to the blog post: 1. Summer internships for High School Students – January 9, 2019 e-newsletter 2. The Truth About Extracurricular Activities and Highly Selective Colleges – May 15, Read More
Results from the October PSAT have been released. Your PSAT/NMSQT (National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test) scores are ready online, you should have received an email with instructions on creating your College Board account, going to your online score report, and using your access code to view your scores. The PSAT score report is full of helpful Read More
Helicopter parenting is a style of parenting in which parents excessively monitor their children and often remove obstacles from their paths, instead of helping them develop the skills to handle the inevitable difficulties of life. New research conducted by Florida State University that was published in the Journal of Child and Family Studies looked at Read More
Some of you may have read my recent article about when to start ACT test prep for your child. (See article here) As I have heard back from parents and teachers on this subject and researched the topic further, I have come to some alarming realizations about how much pressure parents and, in some cases, schools Read More
It’s the week before the big holidays – it’s break time. Do you feel like you want to pull your hair out from the stress? Are students marching into your offices, freaking out while waiting for news from their first-choice colleges? What about the students who are still writing their essays? Or the ones who Read More
Due to the impact of the opioid epidemic in the United States and the ever expanding need for well trained professionals to help battle addiction, Recovery Centers of America (RCA) launched a scholarship program to encourage college and university students to do their part in the fight against the addiction crisis affecting our nation. We Read More
Holly Korbey of KQED has put together a comprehensive 38 page online guide about Dyslexia. Dyslexia occurs in every language and in children from every background, regardless of race or socioeconomic status. Stubborn. Not working to potential. Lazy. Unintelligent. For many students sitting in classrooms right now struggling to read, they have already heard these Read More
If you want to think new thoughts, you have to know what you are already thinking. Your brain wants to think things that it has always thought. For example, try brushing your teeth with your left hand. It is hard, because it is something that your brain is not used to doing. You also want Read More
I enjoyed speaking with a prospective client recently who asked me a thought-provoking question – when is the ideal time for a high school student to start ACT prep? With increasing numbers of parents investing in tutoring and college consulting services in order to give their children the best shot at gaining acceptance to their Read More
It’s December, and there are still regular college application deadlines around the corner. What do you do when your students show you application essays that just don’t seem ready to go? This is the point in the process when professionals and other well-meaning adults can overstep their roles. No worries. We’re going to share our simple Read More
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