Listen to the Podcast: Spreaker | Spotify | Apple Podcasts This week we welcome current Admission Digital Media Student Assistant Sarah Engel to the blog. Welcome, Sarah! This admission blog has long been written by experts in application evaluation, the admission counselors themselves. But they’ve always hoped you would seek out additional voices in your college […]
Handling Admission Decisions — A Coach’s Guide
Earlier this week my son played in a middle school basketball game. With two seconds left, he lined up to shoot free throws. He walked to the line, bounced the ball slowly several times, eyed his shot and released. Rattling from the front of the rim to the back, the ball ultimately glanced off the […]
Life Lessons From SNL and College Admissions
There are pros and cons to your kids getting older. Pro- No changing diapers or using a snot sucker during the winter (the diaper part was year-round, fyi. Don’t think I was just a seasonal diaper changer). Con- No more kids rates/deals on food, flights, or theme parks. Pro- Travel is much easier. No stroller […]
College Admission- A Long-term Vision
“I can’t wait to get that extra hour of sleep this weekend!” “This is great. We can stay up until midnight twice on Saturday.” “I wish we could ‘fall back’ every weekend, so we could get an extra hour before Mondays.” These are three statements I heard last Friday at work and at home (Identities […]
Is That a Good School?
Listen to the podcast: Spreaker | Spotify | Apple Podcasts On Sunday after lunch, I was watching college football highlights, when the back-and-forth battle in Happy Valley between the University of Illinois and Penn State came on. At the time, my 10-year-old daughter was stretching on the living room floor next to me (something I […]