I 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 […]
Read MoreCollege counseling is not one size fits all. While it never was, post-pandemic and post demographic analysis, this fact is more true than ever. Many articles suggesting “10 tips for college admission!” have 5 tips that are probably not relevant for your particular situation. Our college counseling clients are predominately from Fairfield County and Connecticut’s […]
Read MoreThrough running The Learning Consultants for now… 20 years!…. I’ve always had a sense of dismay regarding half the college counselors I’ve met in Connecticut. Most went into the field for the right reasons. Specifically, most wanted to help young people with all important life-changing college decisions. But through the years, I came to […]
Read MoreOf the “big” three academic skills–reading, writing, and math–writing probably lost the most ground last year. Students hardly did any writing last year, especially compared to prior years. And although this isn’t surprising, given the stresses on teaching and learning during the pandemic, it doesn’t bode well for overall academic acheivement. As my summer writing […]
Read MoreThere are many pandemic tragedies well beyond the good part of the college process. I’m sure “first world problem” will be the classification of this particular issue. But I feel badly for both students and parents who are missing the best part – perhaps the only good part! – of the college application process: visiting […]
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