Those who had an amazing college experience understand. Indeed, when I started college counseling years ago, parents as well as older siblings of my student-clients from Southeastern, CT usually would have already educated students on the possibilities for a great college experience. I recall one of my clients. He’s from Old Saybrook. So I also […]
Read MoreAs always, I change the names and identifying details of college counseling clients. “I figure I’ll go wherever…” so said Alvin a junior from Lyme-Old Lyme High School. Alvin’s initial college list consisted of an eclectic mix. For sake of simplicity, I’ll focus on two colleges that were on his list: Clemson and Emerson Clemson […]
Read MoreI was at a party in Old Saybrook, Connecticut when I overheard a parent say “it doesn’t matter where you go to college.” Having worked with her two older children both of whom worked as hard a possible to attend “good colleges”, in part because of her urging, I had the good sense to […]
Read MoreMaggie was a quiet young lady from Essex, Connecticut. Attending Valley Regional High in the 2000s, she would later relay that most of her classmates wouldn’t recognize her if they saw her today. She’s right because I didn’t recognize her. She had taken an SAT class way back when and when we met a […]
Read MoreI wrote Motivate Your Son almost a decade ago. The principles related to motivation and as part of our Student Mastery Program remain. The difference now is that when I first wrote about male underachievement it was not the national crisis that it is today. Men now comprise only 40% of college students. There has been a […]
Read MoreKeith was a good but not great math student from Old Lyme, Connecticut. . Like many 18 year olds, he had no idea what he wanted to do with his career. Of all the problems in our school system, I’ll suggest that lack of career education has to be one of the most underrated. […]
Read MoreFor a broader perspective on prestige in the context of college counseling, please read the prior article. Suffice to say, my college counseling efforts are designed to align with the goals of my clients. The following story simply illustrates the point I made regarding “an asset to be leveraged.” As always, all names and identifying […]
Read MoreAn interesting paradigm shift seems to have occurred in my second decade of providing college counseling to students from Connecticut’s affluent suburbs. When I started college counseling in the 2000s, most parents from Madison, Guilford, Essex, Old Saybrook, Old Lyme, East Lyme, Waterford, Stonington and other Shoreline towns, the parents were highly focused on the […]
Read MoreAll names and some identifying details of college counseling students are changed Eric was a student at Daniel Hand High School in Madison. I had worked with him on SAT prep and knew him quite well. When we started college counseling, he expressed his interest in applying to schools in the Pacific Northwest. As noted […]
Read MoreAs always, all names and occasional identifying details are changed when I provide college counseling stories. Emily was a student from Guilford High School in Connecticut. We met for college counseling about a decade back. She wanted to go to California. As part of my normal college counseling discussion, I tell students that I will […]
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