Noor Haddad, College Counselor Collegewise I’ve been struggling with the question – what’s your dream? Ever since I read Nikki’s blog post and was inspired and humbled by it, I have been thinking about the question on a daily basis and wondering why it was so...
By Amy Pimentel, Financial Aid Outreach Specialist College of the Sequoias There’s been much discussion around the role of helicopter parents and overparenting, but I see high school and postsecondary institutions doing a lot of handholding and doing whatever...
By Amy Pimentel Financial Aid Outreach Specialist from the College of the Sequoias Community College, state college, and private college students have two things in common: one, they are chasing dreams; two, they worry about money. Granted, there’s the group of...
By Lisa Sohmer, Consultant Sohmer College Counseling Election days in 2016 and 2017 have, with great clarity, shown us the value and importance of interacting with our elected officials. Living in the United States offers us the freedom to reach out to our...
Noor Haddad, College Counselor Collegewise Mental health for high school students has been something I've made a significant effort to learn more about. Many of the students I work with have struggled with it, and are still struggling. When I ask them questions about...
By Nikki Kahealani Chun, Senior Associate Director, Caltech Diversity, Equity and Access Committee Ke welina, e aloha mai kakou. To understand the roots of this blog entry is to know a little bit about me and my positionality. I am a Native Hawaiian woman who was the...
By Ava Agree, Assistant Director of Admission, University of San Francisco Diversity, Equity and Access Committee Dating as a Trans person is all about learning when and how to out yourself, colloquially, ‘Spilling the Tea’. So here’s me, spilling my tea. The first...
By Heaja Kim, Independent College Admissions Consultant, KKM College Consulting A couple of years ago, I read about an interesting study that attributed the difference in how peoples of the East and the West think to the labor requirements for the type of grain...
I know campus tours can be a great tool for access. Every year more students than I can count write about the moment they arrived at a college campus and suddenly realized that they had found the place for them. Even for students that never really get that feeling,...
By Pamela Baker, Independent Admissions Consultant, Right College Choice On the first day of my son’s freshman year I reported to a classroom full of parents by following instructions on the card I received in the mail. I was glad to see the mom I had just met had...