During the height of the pandemic, there were around 50 million Americans unemployed. I knew almost none. I asked my friends if they knew people who were now unemployed. They, too, knew almost no one. I then realized, as elitist as it sounds, that most everyone I know had a college degree and, I dare say […]
Read MoreFor the last couple decades, I’ve led SAT classes in our Madison and Old Saybrook, Connecticut offices. I start the class with an unusual question: “why are you here?” Students are initially perplexed. No one asks them such questions. Some mumble because my parents made me. Others answer compliantly: to improve my SAT scores. I […]
Read MoreWhy students should care about refining their writing skills. Certainly for other reasons than an A on the Hamlet essay, writing skills can open or close doors after high school. After all, writing is communication, and effective communication in business is key. As Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon put it, your ability to “communicate with […]
Read More“Should I ED?” Matt, a student from East Lyme High School asked. Matt and I had worked together through our Student Mastery Program, through SAT Prep, and now in full college counseling mode. I suppose at this point I was Matt’s mentor, particularly since his parents did not attend college in the United States. I […]
Read MoreIn confusing times, paradoxes dominate. College is less needed (for some) and college is more needed (for many). After the Great Recession, I started Career Counseling Connecticut. I started working with twentysomethings throughout Connecticut as they navigated the work world. Those who did not need college and succeeded in the work world primarily went into […]
Read MoreThose 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 MoreMost of the students we tutor in CT and NY have incredibly busy lives. If they participate in sports, as they often do, their schedules are tightly packed with practices, games, and homework. Writing skills are typically the first to be sacrificed to the school-year time crunch. But they don’t have to be, and they […]
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 […]
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