At some point this fall you had a question you did not ask. Does the school send the transcript, or do we? Who writes his
Every spring I get a version of the same phone call. A kid got in, the family is celebrating, and somewhere in the happy part
I have gotten a wave of messages lately that are technically four different questions and are all really the same one. My kid won’t join
There’s a mom in your group chat right now who just announced that her family isn’t doing early, they’re just doing regular decision. And everybody
There is a mountain of advice about how to start a college essay. I have made some of it myself. There is almost nothing about
Somebody asked me recently how to build a college list the way I do it with my own families, and my first instinct was to
There is a quiet thing a lot of colleges track, and most parents have never heard the plain-English version of it. It is called demonstrated
The Common App opened August 1, and right behind the main essay comes the part almost nobody prepares for: the supplemental essays. The why us,
There is a piece of paper that matters more than almost anything else in the college process, and most families sign it without really reading
Last week, six moms hit reply on my newsletter and asked me the same exact thing: which test should my kid even take, the SAT
Former high school counselor, mom of two boys, and your guide from freshman year through the finish line. I help parents figure out what matters now, what can wait, and what to do next.
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