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Finding An Independent College Counselor

on August 1, 2012 in Admission practices, Admissions, Applying, High school counselors, Parents

In my last college blog post, I wrote about the enmity that admission officers at elite colleges and universities tend to exhibit toward independent college counselors. If you missed it, here it is: Elite Schools Dissing College Consultants While elite schools argue that families can navigate the process by themselves, they ignore this fact:  colleges [...]

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Elite Schools Dissing College Consultants

on July 30, 2012 in Admission practices, Admissions, High school counselors

In June I gave a keynote talk at the annual conference of the Higher Education Consultants Association in New Jersey. I decided to tag along on the group’s college tour that took the consultants to a half-dozen campuses. What I found predictable is that the most elite schools were the least hospitable to the consultants. [...]

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Listen to my College Cost Webinar

on June 8, 2012 in College Costs, Financial aid, Money, Scholarships

  LLast week I gave a one-hour webinar on shrinking college costs for 100 college consultants. Cyndy McDonald, a friend of mine who is also college consultant and the founder of MyCCA.net, invited me to give the presentation. MyCCA (which stands for My College Consultant Assistant) provides management software for college counselors to help them [...]

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