The College Board administered the first online SAT this month, on March 9th. In conjunction with this change and with the shift in so many colleges’ testing requirements, I thought I would offer a primer on the basics of testing and how to proceed if you are the parent of a younger high school student. […]

My March webinar has the usual News & Notes on the latest goings on in college admissions with a focus on the latest schools to require testing. (Looking at you Dartmouth and Yale). Then I do a deep dive into the state flagship conundrum-what they are, what has happened, where we are now and what

Occasionally I have a family that I worked with in the past reach out to me for help with a younger child. This happened recently and I started to explain how different things are in college admissions since the pandemic. There have been so many disruptions in the college admissions process in recent years that

My February webinar has News & Notes and focuses on the new online SAT. You can access it on YouTube here.

I send this valentine to my seniors every year. At this point, some know where they are going via Early Decision, some have heard back from all of their schools and are mulling over their choices and others are still waiting to hear from schools in the next few weeks. Wherever you are in the

I absolutely loved this five part series by Martin Van Der Werf on Medium.com. He is a journalist and professional in higher education and he writes about guiding his child through the college admissions process. Many people that work in high schools and colleges are surprised at how well they understand the ins and outs

Happy New Year! I’ve been busy onboarding new juniors so my January post is a little late. This month my webinar and blog focus on paying for college in conjunction with the release of the new FAFSA on New Year’s Eve. (You can read a sage counselor’s thoughts here.) If you have been following along,

I am posting my favorite admissions books on Instagram, if you want to follow along my IG handle is august.consulting.

All credit to Lee Coffin of Dartmouth on this verse and good luck to any seniors still working on applications: ‘Twas Two Weeks ‘Til the Deadline ‘Twas Two Weeks ‘Til the Deadline and all through the house, the senior was stirring coffee-charged fingers on her mouse. Her essays were written and edited with care in

If you are familiar with the college application cycle, you know that December of senior year, students enter one of the most intense phases of the college admissions process, when schools start releasing decisions from the binding Early Decision and the Early Action application pools. All of the work from the last four years comes