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6 Ways Colleges Are Behaving Badly

6 Ways Colleges Are Behaving Badly

on September 7, 2011 in Admission practices, Admissions, Applying

For many years I was a financial journalist and in that role I became extremely cynical about how Wall Street and the rest of the financial industry operated. After I switched  to writing about the higher-ed world, I became just as cynical about the practices of colleges and universities. I bring this up today because [...]

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Parents: Take a Chill Pill

Parents: Take a Chill Pill

on June 27, 2011 in Admissions, Applying, Colleges, Ivy League

I was at a preschool reunion on Sunday that reminded me about how nuts the college admission process is for a fraction of high school students and their families. The families I am talking about are the kind that you can find featured in the over-hyped documentary Race to Nowhere. Here, by the way, is [...]

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Getting Into College With Learning Disabilities

Getting Into College With Learning Disabilities

on May 4, 2011 in Admission practices, Admissions, Applying, Evaluating Schools, Parents, Research

Today I’m quite pleased to share some valuable and hopeful advice for high school students who possess learning disabilities and are wondering how that will impact their college search. The expert suggestions come from David Montesano, a very smart admission strategist in Bellevue, WA, who operates College  Match Educational Consultants, which maintains multiple offices on [...]

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Demonstrating College Love

Demonstrating College Love

on April 14, 2011 in Admission practices, Admissions

I received an email from a high school junior in San Diego today that prompted me to write this post. The teenager came to hear me talk last night at a presentation hosted by a financial adviser. At one point I mentioned that one in five colleges say that an applicant’s demonstrated interest is very [...]

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One More Stab at the Race to Nowhere

on January 27, 2011 in Admissions, Applying, High school counselors, Ivy League

Earlier this week I shared some thoughtful comments from Alice Kleeman, a high school counselor in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Kris Hintz, an independent college counselor in New Jersey, who were responding to a post that I wrote on the higher-ed documentary Race to Nowhere. Here is the post that contains Kris and [...]

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The Dirty Little Secrets of College Admissions

on December 29, 2010 in Admission practices, Admissions, Applying, College Costs, Financial aid, Money

Today I want to share a piece, which originally ran in the Washington Post, that was written by Dean P. Skarlis, who  is president of The College Advisor of New York in Albany. I liked what Skarlis had to say so much about today’s college admission climate that I asked if I could share it [...]

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