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Demonstrating Their Interest: Strategies for Students to Learn About Colleges on a Budget
Colleges seek students who are a great match. With online applications, colleges have more and more applicants and, thus, need ways to differentiate amongst them. As a result, an increasing number of schools are using demonstrated interest as a factor in the admissions process. We need to help high school juniors understand that, while demonstrated…
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Design a Gold Medal Senior Year Schedule
February/March is “prime time” for helping high school juniors pick their senior year schedules. Colleges are looking for academically committed and passionate students. The senior year schedule should take the shape of a peak, not a plateau or downhill slope, when looking at a student’s academic experience in high school. Understanding that the rigor of a…
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College Tours and Disneyland
So, I’m sitting in the lobby of a Marriott Courtyard in Waco, TX waiting for 26 high school juniors to come down to the lobby. It’s day three of a college tour and it’s early in the morning. It’s the kind of moment that makes you look at your life and look at your choices. …
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Prime-Time College Readiness Tips for Counselors Working with High School Juniors – Starting Tomorrow!
Over the next few Thursdays, Rebecca Joseph will provide weekly college readiness tips for those counselors working with high school juniors. There is so much high school counselors can do now to help juniors, so that they finish their high school experience right and prepare properly for the college journey ahead. As we all know, college admissions…
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Finding Your Passion (of the Moment)
We have recently begun meeting with juniors to discuss their hopes and dreams for college, and I’m finding that their hopes and dreams can change more often than their clothes. This is to be expected, but it’s interesting to see how they can be so sure of what they want to study, do for a…
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Why Are You Going to College?
1,332. This is the number of college essays I have read to date this season. I’m getting to the point where I need to blink every few minutes to prevent my eyes from drying out. Amidst the daunting process that is reading season, I find myself stopping every couple of hours, taking a deep breath,…
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How to Dress Like an Adult
Tag Team–back again. Check–it’s Tuesday, let’s begin. Party on WACAC, let me hear some noise. G-Cush on the blog, jump, jump, rejoice. WHOMP (there it is)! With that…Welcome everyone to another installment of How to be an Adult with your best friend and professional colleague, Grant Cushman. Today, I hope to tackle the fascinating and…
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Empowerment is Not the Same as Expertise
I recently read a thought-provoking essay titled “The Death of Expertise,” by Tom Nichols, a professor at the U.S. Naval War College and an adjunct at the Harvard Extension School. I’m not an expert on expertise, so perhaps I shouldn’t try to summarize his article, but the primary message I got from it is that…
