If I could only give every family one piece of advice about college admissions and the college application process it would be this: Dare to be different. Be different from the beginning – don’t wait like so many other people until the summer after junior year or even worse, the fall of senior year to Read More
Sprint Corporation is gearing up to provide free mobile devices and high-speed wireless connectivity to 1 million low income high school students around the country. The new program is aimed at eliminating the so-called homework gap in which low-income students are at a disadvantage because they don’t have access to the internet, which is needed Read More
Google has announced they will incorporating information from the Obama administration’s College Scorecard into its search results. When your students search for information on a specific college in Google they will now find graduation rates, post-college earning information and college tuition displayed right in the search results. Here is a link to their blog post Read More
Imagine that relentless, torrential rains pummel your community, resulting in massive flooding that turns streets into canals and destroys homes, roads and bridges, grocery stores and pharmacies, schools, hospitals, and other essential services across a wide area. Thousands of people and families are displaced and homeless, having lost everything to a devastating natural disaster that Read More
Mount Carmel High School was a mainstay in a small Houston area community called Garden Villas but when the Catholic Church announced the school’s closure— the community took action. Not only is Garden Villas a close-knit community of modest homes and working class people but the community association even has its own radio station. The Read More
A new Counselor Association is available in Texas, the Lone Star State School Counselor Association. The LSSSCA was designed specifically to meet the emerging needs of all school counselors in the state of Texas. Their goal is to ensure that the services and resources offered meet the needs of all counselors in the state. The Read More
When I went to College most students that were serious graduated in 4 years. Recent data from a report published by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows that students now are taking more than 5 years (5.1 average) to receive their bachelor’s degrees. The time period studied was for students who graduated between July Read More
I read a blog recently from an Independent College Advisor recently based in Charlotte, Lee Shulman Bierer of College Admission Strategies about the issue of students (and even Teachers and Counselors) posting things on Social Media that came back to haunt them. She makes the point that most students do the right thing and you Read More
High school students use drugs and alcohol at high rates. According to the 2015 Monitoring the Future survey, 23.6 percent of 12th graders and 16.5 percent of 10th graders reported past-month illicit drug use. These substances included marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy. Also, 35.3 percent of 12th graders and 21.5 percent of 10th graders reported past-month Read More
In this short video prepared for her own daughter’s high school college night, Wow Writing Workshop President Kim Lifton shares many useful tips on writing college application essays. She talks about the essay, what it is, who its for and why students need to write 1 or 10 of them. She shares her best tips Read More
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