I always love when parents share a merit scholarship success story! This one is from the mom of a National Merit Finalist. Her daughter found a great-fit school offering a full tuition national merit scholarship. I asked her to share her daughter’s journey with us. As always, I keep these Read more…
Will colleges survive 2020? This is a question on the minds of families, college counselors and others with an interest in the college landscape. Determining a college’s financial health before committing to send your student there has become very important in 2020. As colleges struggled with financial losses from sending Read more…
How COVID-19 disrupts the college search for the high school class of 2021 is only partially understood at this point. There is a lot of speculation, based on what is happening with college admissions for high school Seniors in the class of 2020. This is the third post in a Read more…
How COVID-19 disrupts the college search for the high school class of 2021 is only partially understood at this point. There is a lot of speculation, based on what is happening with college admissions for high school Seniors in the class of 2020. Last week, I started this series of Read more…
How COVID-19 disrupts the college search for the high school class of 2021 is only partially understood at this point. There is a lot of speculation, based on what is happening with college admissions for high school Seniors in the class of 2020. I recently did a Facebook Live about Read more…
Choosing a college for Fall 2020 has been made extremely difficult due to COVID-19. What is normally a decision with many different variables has become so much more complicated because colleges don’t know yet what their landscape looks like for Fall 2020. As the looming deposit date deadlines approach, students Read more…
Athletic recruiting in 2020, with COVID-19 looming, has become a very different and very challenging process. As college campuses shut down across the U.S. in early 2020 turning to online learning instead, the NCAA had no choice but to shut down active athletic recruiting efforts. This left families of high Read more…
It’s March of 2020. We are in the middle of a global pandemic. Colleges have ordered students to move out of dorms, with semesters continuing online post-Spring Break. ACT and SAT tests have been postponed or cancelled. AP tests are converting to online. It is a crazy time! As a Read more…
Making the college search easy is something most families want to do, but struggle to figure out. Many factors go into the college search and different families may have very different needs when it comes to finding the “best fit” colleges. What to Search For When It Comes to Best Read more…
I believe a successful college search needs preparation plus opportunity. One of my favorite sayings has always been Luck = Preparation + Opportunity. What this means to me is that there really is no such thing as “luck”. You end up feeling “lucky” when you are well-prepared and the right Read more…