Application Strategy
Stress Management for High School Students
Picture the famous painting by Edvard Munch known as “The Scream”. No student should have to go through high school feeling like that person. Although there’s serious work to be…
ReadmoreBreaking up is hard to do
By Lee Shulman Bierer, College Admissions Strategies, Founder For young couples in high school heading off to college, it must seem like the world doesn’t believe in love. Everyone,…
ReadmoreSummer campus visits
College campuses are opening up. For the first time, in a long time, families are actually planning real face-to-face campus visits. People always seem to apologize when they’re making plans…
ReadmoreCollege Admissions Courtship
The college admissions process has occasionally been likened to an old-fashioned mating ritual. It starts out with mutual flirtation: student flirts with college requesting information and perhaps visiting campus; colleges…
ReadmoreHow to Make the Final Decision
The colleges have made their decisions and now students are in the driver’s seat and by May 1 they must notify the college they choose to attend. All students, even…
ReadmoreWait-list purgatory
I’m sure you’re tired of hearing how “this was an incredibly tough year,” – truth is IT WAS and that means a lot more students were put on wait-lists and…
ReadmoreStaying healthy on campus
They’re gone. All summer long you worried about their dorm room, what classes they’d take, how they’d adjust socially, if they will run out of money, if they will be…
ReadmoreMore Freshman Survival Secrets
The big transition isn’t too far away. Many soon-to-be freshmen have already been on campus for orientation, most have their roommates lined up and beneath the veneer of excited anticipation,…
ReadmoreRemember these safety tips on campus
Unfortunately, gone are the days where parents blithely sent their children off to idyllic college campuses worry-free. Until relatively recently, safety was something that was just mentioned on campus tours…
ReadmoreStaying healthy on campus
They’re gone. All summer long you worried about their dorm room, what classes they’d take, how they’d adjust socially, if they will run out of money, if they will be…
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