Many colleges ask students to submit an essay that explains why they want to attend that school. If you have to write such an essay for multiple colleges, it can be tempting to write something generic and then send it to every school. However, this is absolutely the WRONG approach. Here are [...]
At a time when more and more students are feeling pressured to choose a major long before they set foot on a college campus, Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas (not to be confused with Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut) takes the opposite approach. In fact, Trinity students are discouraged from declaring [...]
What's a poetry lover to do? Although many students become excited about the liberal arts in high school or even before then, some are reluctant to pursue such studies in college. Between rising tuition and ballooning student loan debt, increasing numbers of students feel like they should pursue more practical, career-related degrees, like business, engineering, or nursing. Often, [...]
Apparently, Paul Revere never actually uttered the famous words, "The British are coming!" Yet, in the spirit of that misquote, the college fairs are, indeed, coming to Denver (and probably to your city, if you live elsewhere). Fall is a popular time for college fairs, and below is information about and [...]
Many people wonder about the need for a college visit, especially when most colleges now offer virtual tours. Yet, if you ask these same people if they’d buy a house without seeing it or a car without driving it, the answer is usually an emphatic “no!” Given the emotional and [...]
No students think it will happen to them, and no parents think it will happen to their child. Yet, according to the Department of Justice, one in five female college students is sexually assaulted. Sexual assault is a real problem that exists on every college campus in this country, and [...]
By the time they've finished their junior year of high school, many students have become experts at writing a five-paragraph analytical essay. Knowing how to write such an essay will serve students well as they finish high school and enter college. However, when it comes to college application essays (also known as personal [...]
Every fall, I see high school seniors struggle to fill out the activities section of their college applications. For most students, the hardest part is trying to describe each activity in 150 characters or fewer, as required by the Common Application. Yet for some students, the difficulties revolve around remembering what [...]
Enough of my Class of 2017 students have taken the ACT that I'm beginning to see a pattern in their Writing scores: compared to these students' scores on the other sections of the test, their Writing scores have been surprisingly low. For example, one of my students had an English score of [...]
I wrote an article about merit scholarships that was published in the April 2016 issue of the Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle. As the article explains, merit scholarships are a great option for families that don't qualify for need-based financial aid but can't afford to pay full price. Contrary to popular belief, you don't [...]
