Greetings from the heart of application season! My clientele is often available to meet with me at odd hours, so I have been logging some late nights working hard to get applications done before my seniors head back to school. Last week I was finishing a call after 10:30 PM. The student commented on how […]

Happy August 1st! The Common App opens to day for the 2025 cycle and I am organizing files of supplemental essays for my students to get started on the next phase of their writing. My latest webinar is below with the usual News & Notes on the latest happenings in college admissions and a deep

Latest Webinar is up: How to Approach the Common App Personal Statement + News & Notes for July.

“From the bureaucratic minutia to the deep introspection, submitting a college application is possibly the biggest achievement of your kid’s life to date” ~Kelly Corrigan It’s Summer 2024 and I am deep in the heart of application season! This is a repost from my blog but it is still relevant and rings true. If you

My June webinar has the usual News & Notes on the latest goings on in college admissions with a focus on some of the current challenges for families going through the process.Then I do a deep into the waitlist-what it is, the reason schools are using this enrollment management tool more frequently, how to accept

If you follow me on YouTube or read my blog, you know I am a fan of state flagships for many reasons. I wrote about this here and here. Richard Moll, a Yale admissions representative, wrote a book called “The Public Ivys” in 1985. He listed the public colleges that resemble Ivy League schools. Here

My First Job One of my first jobs out of college was working in the Human Resource department of a large, wholesale nursery grower on the West Coast. I had no HR experience, but I spoke fluent Spanish, so I was hired.   This company brought in thousands of temporary workers for the growing season. One

My first piece on writing the personal statement had some tips on how to approach the Common App essay. Part 2 is a list of topics to avoid. Your personal statement is a place to highlight things about yourself. Here are five things that you should not do with the personal statement: The personal statement

This post is going up on May 1st, which in any other year is a big deal-this is National Deposit Day. The new FAFSA rollout has created a massive delay and many schools have had to move their deadline back. I address all of this in my May webinar below!

“You don’t have to shoot for perfection…just tell us your story.” ~Jacob Browne Dean of Admission, Eckerd College I am shifting gears and turning my focus to my cohort of juniors as my seniors finalize their decisions. Naturally, writing always comes up in our meetings and they wonder about how to write the college essay.