I have spent the past month giving presentations on writing powerful college application essays and reading first drafts of students’ UC personal statements. Regardless of where I’ve gone, I’ve seen a troubling pattern in interpreting and writing UC...
Juniors (or new rising seniors) are entering a year of bragging, a skill most lack because they live in a world of superficiality enabled by rampant social media usage. Yet rising seniors must learn to successfully boast about themselves to …
There is a growing concern that community colleges up and down the state are de-emphasizing the value and importance of Transfer Centers. This is of great concern, particularly in today’s environment of community college reform, where we have seen significant...
As I head home from my first SuperACAC conference I try to digest all that happened over three days seemingly trapped inside a smoky casino time warp, both in era and time of day. I learned simple things like the …
As juniors finish up their penultimate high school year, they will know even more about what colleges should go on their final college lists. Sidwell Friends, an elite private school in Washington, DC, does it right: it limits students to …
Have you seen them wandering your hallways? Sleep deprived students with sunken eyes, fueled with energy drinks and??? They seem to appear every May but the past few years the numbers have grown to epidemic proportions. OK maybe I’m being …
