Summer
Making the most of your summer
By Lee Shulman Bierer, College Admissions Strategies – Founder Summer is the best opportunity for a student to set themselves apart from their peers. CREATE A CLUB/OR FIND…
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…
ReadmoreWhat Rising Seniors Should Be Thinking About And Doing This Summer… Part 2
By Lee Shulman Bierer, College Admissions Strategies – Founder If there is one tip I’d like to share with rising seniors, it would be to “get organized” this summer. Plan,…
ReadmoreWhat should rising seniors be doing over the summer?
“Yea, junior year is almost finally over, time for a vacation” is a frequently heard refrain in many household these days. Yes, they absolutely deserve a break, but let me…
ReadmoreHow you spend your summer vacation is important
Thankfully once students reach high school, they are no longer required to write the often painfully boring “what I did over my summer vacation” essay. But that doesn’t mean that…
ReadmoreWhat’s up with the obsession around packing for college?
Even though their first footstep into a college classroom is more than a month away, rising college freshmen, and many mothers, are already obsessing about what to pack. For most…
ReadmoreLast minute tips to make the most of your summer
Perhaps you’re not one of those super-organized, type-A people who firmed up their summer plans last January. And, right about now you’re finding yourself with more than a little free…
ReadmoreLast minute tips to make the most of your summer
Photo by Travis Long for The News & Observer Perhaps you’re not one of those super-organized, type-A people who firmed up their summer plans last January. And right about now,…
ReadmoreStand out to admissions officers by doing something different this summer
By Lee Shulman Bierer If you picture yourself in the college admissions officer’s chair, reviewing application after application, you’ll have a better sense of why it matters so much how you…
ReadmoreMake the most of your summer with academic options
By LEE SHULMAN BIERER Summer provides the best opportunity for future college applicants to separate themselves from the pack. As the number of students applying to colleges continues its upward…
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