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Full Story »The College Season is underway!
The 2011 college application season is in full swing. At least it is in my practice! I have one student is almost done with his applications. He is in the process of writing essays, requesting transcripts, and teacher recommendations. He had five or six different application types to fill out. He really got on it!
Full Story »5 Practical Tips to Enhance Your College Life
College is a milestone in every student’s life, one that some cross very easily while others struggle to get through. Success or failure depends on your circumstances, the degree of difficulty of the degree you’ve chosen, your financial constraints, your determination to succeed and your ability to resist temptation and while away the time you’re supposed to spend studying.
Full Story »Here comes the population dip!
Good news for students and families: it won’t be so horribly difficult getting into college for the next few years as the number of high school graduates dips significantly.
Full Story »Hey all of you high school entrepreneurs!
The TCU Texas Youth Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, presented by the Neeley Entrepreneurship Center at TCU and sponsored by BBVA Compass Bank, is now accepting applications, available at www.tcuyeya.org. Applications are due November 1, 2010
Full Story »Tam’s Tips for College Adventures Success: PART TWO
More of Tam’s Tips for College success!
Full Story »Tam’s Tips for the New College Student
Okay. Now you are actually in college and at college. You have moved in. Met the roommate. Gone to a couple of parties and met some other students. Awesome, dude. But there is another side to college…it is called learning.
Full Story »Prop 19
This November, California voters may or may not pass Prop 19 which would legalize marijuana. No, seriously. As a libertarian, this is an amazing step in the direction of liberty. As a functioning human being with a basic grasp on the english language and some abstract concepts, mostly those relating to bankruptcy, this is an amazing idea. Infuriating is the realization that both (because let’s be real, it’s gonna be Meg Whitman or Jerry Brown) gubernatorial candidates are opposed to it. So are Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein, California’s “benevolent” senators (sorry, I’m a little bitter about a letter I sent them once. The responses were essentially, ‘we’re the senators, we know what’s best for you, leave us alone and pay your taxes.’ Unforgivable
Full Story »Oh those terrible rankings!
Oh those terrible college rankings! The US News and World Report came out with their yearly diatribe on the “best colleges”. As Mark H Sklarow, the executive director of the Independent Educational Consultants Association says in his blog: “Worst of all, students add colleges to their ‘wish lists’ not understanding that much of the criteria that put a school on the list has no consequence to their particular needs, interests, or desires.”
Full Story »Book Review: Getting In by Karen Stabiner
Getting In is a novel about 5 families in Los Angeles with seniors who are applying to college. 3 of the 5 are private school students, 1 is a former private school classmate who is now at the local high school, and 1 is the daughter of immigrants who is the valedictorian of the local high school. I recommend the book to students (and their parents) who are applying to college or will be applying to college, mostly to demonstrate the poor parenting, cyncial college counseling, and selfish student attitudes that are so prevalent today among those who believe there are only a handful of colleges worth going to.
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