Essential Info About College Financial Aid Forms
With the sticker price of many private colleges exceeding $60,000 a year and the cost of public universities steadily rising, more and more families are struggling to fund their…
The Role of Parents in the College Application Process
College admissions present parents with difficult ethical, social and educational choices. We want our children to enjoy the adventure, act with integrity, feel good about the…
Protecting Your Family Against Digital and Identity Theft
My 24-year-old graduate-student son recently had a terrible experience that offers many lessons to college-aged students and their parents. As a nice, smart kid who typically…
Planning Your Summer with College in Mind
Are you a high school student (or the parent of one) who is wondering how best to spend your summer? What do colleges expect high school students to do during their school…
A Message for Parents of College-Bound Students
Seeing your child go off to college is a challenging time for parents, when you can let your heart (even your eyes) overflow with abundance as you wish for your college-bound…
14 Tips for good college visits
With spring break ahead, many families are planning campus visits with their juniors and sophomores. Demonstrating your interest to a college by visiting the campus is a good…
Taking a GAP year!
Initially, the gap year concept was foreign to me. I am naturally an independent and adventurous person, which is how I ended up at boarding school in the first place.…
Doing school: the gap between high school education and college admissions
Many of you will have heard me complain rather cynically about the distance between colleges’ expressed expectations for high school students and the reality of highly selective…
From junior year to college admissions
For the last few months, high school juniors stood by as seniors wrestled with college applications, stressed about choices, and finally, exhaled as they picked their colleges.…
Promises and Pitfalls of a Gap Year
Most high school seniors pursuing a college education are now filling in roommate forms, sending off final transcripts to chosen institutions, and such. But many others have…