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Bad College Advice: Readers Weigh In

on August 1, 2011 in Admissions, Financial aid, High school counselors, Money

I devoted my last two college blog posts to exploring why high school counselors fail so many students with their college advice. If you missed them, here they are: What’s Wrong With High School Counselors What’s Wrong With High School Counselors, Part II I received many great comments regarding those posts and I wanted to [...]

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Why High School Counselors Don't Know Much About College

on October 18, 2010 in Academics, Admissions, High school counselors

I spent yesterday afternoon giving a workshop for some families about how they can increase their chances of finding wonderful schools for their teenagers while shrinking their costs at the same time. The parents, whose teenagers attend both private and public suburban schools in San Diego, were shocked that they hadn’t heard about any of [...]

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Are School Counselors the Weakest Link?

on March 4, 2010 in Admissions, Careers, Financial aid, Grades, High school counselors

I heard from some high school counselors yesterday, who were furious with me. I wrote a post for my other college blog at CBSMoneyWatch about a new study that suggests that plenty of school counselors would flunk out if they were graded like their students. In the Public Agenda survey, which was funded by the [...]

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10 Things About College That High School Counselors Don't Know

on January 8, 2010 in Academics, Admissions, Financial aid, High school counselors, Money, Scholarships, Universities

Yesterday I wrote this provocative post: Why High School Counselors Don’t Know Much About College. Today I wanted to follow up with 10 things that the typical high school counselors doesn’t know. Here goes: 1. There are roughly 50 colleges and universities in the country that are no-loan schools, which means they meet a student’s [...]

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Why High School Counselors Don't Know Much About College

on January 7, 2010 in Admissions, College readiness, Financial aid, High school counselors, Money, Research

Is your teenager’s high school counselor an expert on college? Probably not. In fact, the odds are high that your counselor’s knowledge about college admission strategies, standardized testing and scholarships is limited. Ironically during this period of skyrocketing college costs, financial aid is often the subject that high school counselors know the least about. Many [...]

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College Recommendation Letters: Saying Thank You

on December 14, 2009 in Admission practices, Admissions, High school counselors, Parents

This is the time of year when high school teachers and counselors are flooded with requests to write college recommendation letters. Writing a college recommendation letter is a thankless job and I’m glad that I’ll never have to write one. But that doesn’t mean that I’m off the hook. My role in the college recommendation [...]

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