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Okay, parents and students – we need to talk.

It’s that time of year when I’m beginning to work with a lot of new client families who are all wonderful and supportive and it’s going to be fun to get to know them over the coming months. But every family (whether they actually say this out loud or not) has one characteristic at the beginning of the process that I want to discuss today in the hope that we can eliminate it (or, at the very least, lessen its hold) and work together more efficiently in the future.

It has to do with the college list. Read More

"Samantha Bledsoe sat at the hangar anxiously waiting for the frost to melt off the wings of her Cessna 150 airplane at the Mount Pleasant Regional Airport.

Bledsoe knew she was running late and the fate of four puppies depended on her taking off on that frigid January morning for the 90-minute flight to Newberry.

Bledsoe, a rising senior at the College of Charleston, was volunteering for Pilots for Paws — an animal rescue organization that utilizes pilots around the country." Read More

"No matter what your chosen path, launching yourself into a new career is difficult under any circumstances. Now imagine that career is riding professionally on the competitive European circuit, and the circumstances are that you are just 16 years old.

That was the situation that Cecilie Tofte found herself in when she began her own professional business after moving up the show jumping ranks as a young rider in Denmark. That trajectory, which gained traction after her Nordic Champion win in 2008, ultimately led Cecilie to Nations Cup competitions in Hickstead and Dublin, and eventually, to riding strings of sale horses for the likes of Neil Jones and Gilbert de Roock.  Yet years into her career, Cecilie elected to change course, giving up her latest riding job in Belgium in order to return home to Denmark to pursue a business degree." Read More

"We’ve learned a lot this week about some of the advantages that rich people have in the college admissions process.

A small number of people in the 1 percent have always been able to buy a building for a campus, and with it a spot for their child. And now we know that a few others in the lower rungs of the 1 percentmight be tempted to break a law or two with a well-placed bribe to a coach or a test proctor.

But there is another admissions edge at many prestigious private colleges and universities that isn’t readily apparent, and it’s open even to those who are merely upper middle class." Read More

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