I had a great time talking about college planning with Your Teen Magazine this morning (and my Zoom shirt worked!) You can see the interview here.
Getting Started
Has there ever been a year as hotly anticipated as 2021? And among all the new year’s resolutions to get back to living our best lives as soon as we can– travel, time with friends and family, in-person school– might I suggest some resolutions for families of college-bound children? I’ve divided them by age range to make it easy for…
Harvard. Amherst. Southern Connecticut State University. US Naval Academy. MIT. Yale. Penn. Lafayette College. Stanford. UMBC. University of Georgia. Wake Forest. Columbia. Duke. US Military Academy. UNC. Ohio State. University of Michigan. Johns Hopkins. US Air Force Academy. South Dakota State University. University of Virginia. UC Santa Cruz. These are the colleges that this year produced winners of arguably the…
Many people mistakenly believe that their in-state public colleges are the only public college option available to their student. In fact, there are many, many public options available, often at the same or lower cost than remaining in state. Typically, for an out of state school to make sense, they need to offer some form of either scholarship or tuition…
In my latest podcast episode, Dr. Alan Shusterman, professor of chemistry at Reed College, shares some insights on how and why students succeed academically in college. As a professor, a parent of two college graduates, and a lifelong student himself, Alan has seen this topic from pretty much every available angle and has some fantastic advice.