Derail

Three Mistakes that can Derail Your College Application

The official e-newsletter of The Equestrian College Advisor.

From the blog:

If you’re a high school senior, chances are you’ve been involved in the college search for a while now and are excited to move on from the search to the application process because it moves you that much closer to making your final college choice. With the ease offered by the Common Application, you might even be fortunate enough to only have to submit one application to the multiple schools on your list.

But before you put finger to keyboard and type your information into the required fields of the Common (or any!) Application, beware the three most common mistakes that high school seniors make during the application process that come back to bite them later on. Read More

Quinnipiac

Quinnipiac University in Connecticut has spent the last couple of years purchasing property for an equestrian center.

Bob C

Have you ever heard the story of how college student Bob Cacchione created the IHSA back in 1964? The story is best told by Bob in person - but if you don't run into him at a show,

from

Horse Nation

can give you the broad strokes.

College advisor

"Those are the parents, I assumed, who will spare no expense, effort, or browbeating to get their precious flower into a “good” college. The parents for whom “good college” means Ivy League, or at the very least, Amherst or Williams.

And then it was my son’s junior year, and there we were, writing a check to an advising company. I was more than a little embarrassed. Apparently, we are those parents."