Carolina Parent highlights College Transitions
Carolina Parent recently picked up Dave’s article revealing “10 tips for landing college scholarships.” You can read the article here.
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Thinking “big picture” about college admissions
In their quest for acceptance, college applicants often fail to see the bigger picture. They obsess over “getting in,” while ignoring current realities about the value and role of an undergraduate education. These realities should play a central, rather than ancillary, part in the college choice process because, when...
Read MoreQuestions you need to ask your prospective colleges
In the throes of the admissions frenzy, it is hard to be face-to-face with a college representative and ask anything other than a thinly veiled version of “Are you going to accept me?” Yet any insight you’ll uncover through this line of inquiry could just as easily have been...
Read MoreAdmission Mythbusters: The College Transitions Edition – Part 2
I got a letter from the Dean! I’m in! For a high school student, there is something undeniably exciting about being the recipient of an unsolicited brochure from a prestigious university, or even better yet, a personalized letter from the Dean of Admissions practically begging you to apply. Unfortunately,...
Read MoreShort-term Strategies for Financial Aid Success
With FAFSA season fast approaching, you no longer have the luxury of long-term financial planning for college unless you happen to stumble upon a 1985 Delorean fully-loaded with a flux capacitor (in which case you should pull a Biff, bet on future sports events, and not even worry about financial aid)....
Read MoreWhat to do if you’re deferred
Deferred. It’s a word that every early applicant dreads. Neither accepted nor denied, deferred students often feel as if they have been banished to college admissions purgatory, sentenced to a state of suffering and uncertainty from which they can do nothing to extricate themselves. Fortunately, deferment is not the...
Read MoreElite U? Only if it Makes (Dollars and) Sense
The lure of an elite undergraduate institution is undoubtedly very powerful. And if you have the credentials and money to comfortably matriculate, by all means… However, if finances are tight and the financial aid isn’t right, take a moment to put your education and career into perspective. In today’s...
Read MoreAbout That D in Freshman English…
If your high school career has been an uninterrupted parade of top notch grades, near perfect standardized test scores, and saintly behavior then you can stop reading… Except you probably won’t since you perfectionists like to finish every single thing you start, right? Academic blemishes come in all shapes...
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