(US News & World Report) by Danny Ruderman. Now that college acceptance and rejection decisions have found their destinations for another year, it is finally time that someone steps up and says what needs to be said: The college admissions process is broken and needs to be fixed. As an independent college counselor, I have […]
Read More »(Fortune) by Andrew Selepak. Most people should know that if they don’t want something to be seen or read, they shouldn’t post it online. There is perhaps no more cautionary tale than former New York congressman Anthony Weiner, whose online sexting took down his own political career, and quite possibly impacted the 2016 presidential election, tilting the […]
Read More »By Eileen Cunningham-Fiekes. The discovery phase of college planning is all about researching, exploring and even visiting to discover which colleges fit best with your personal wants and needs. Eileen Cunningham Feikens, director of college counseling at the Dwight-Englewood School in New Jersey, urges high school students to be savvy consumers. “The one area that […]
Read More »(Campus Technology) by Dian Schaffhauser. Ed tech company Hobsons has introduced new functionality into Naviance, a K-12 college and career “readiness” program that helps counselors match up student strengths and interests with their post-secondary goals. “Intersect,” as the new feature is named, allows college admissions offices to publish information about their institutions to the high […]
Read More »(NY Post) by Naomi Schaefer Riley When it comes to the cost of college, we may have reached the tipping point. According to a recent report in The New York Times, several colleges contacted applicants they hadn’t heard from after the official May 1 deadline to accept an admissions offer to see if they wouldn’t like […]
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