Mid-September. It’s go time. Or, perhaps time to finally deal with that impulse to bury your head in the sand. I’m coming to the unpleasant realization that I’m not Tony Robbins (as one of my favorite mentors likes to put …
In January 2014, the Executive Board of the Western Association for College Admission Counseling (WACAC) convened a special Taskforce on Independent Educational Consultants (IECs). We invited all 1700+ members and had a 30% response rate on number questions on how...
I feel for these kids. I was helping out at a college application bootcamp a couple of weeks ago at a great independent school—one that, in its very intimate setting, places a lot of emphasis on the personal development of …
Art education is often so completely underrated. You want to develop grit, or other skills that will help you survive in the workplace after college? Make art (and learn about the process of making it). The majority of my students …
I just started work with a student interested in becoming an entrepreneur. And rightly so: he’s handling the business end of a clothing line that he started with a designer friend of his. Let’s call him Nate. Nate is hungry. …
