The official e-newsletter of The Equestrian College Advisor.

From the blog:

“I got into the horse business for the glamour.”

These words have been spoken by no horse industry professional. Ever.

The long hot (and long cold) days; the difficult horses (and their even more difficult owners); the low pay and high cost – it isn’t a career for the faint of heart. And even for kids who have grown up as proverbial “barn rats” and spent nearly as much time at their trainer’s barn as they have at home or school, I don’t think the full scope of what it means to truly be a horse trainer or stable manager can be understood from the outside. You have to be one hundred percent immersed in every aspect of a horse’s care to begin to get the gist, whether through a working student position (emphasis on the “working” part) or through having the good fortune to get to grow up with horses in your own backyard – something that less and less kids have the opportunity to experience these days. Read More

"I was hiking with a friend and student of mine, an amateur rider who brought her last horse up to the FEI-level in dressage. Her next project is a young, athletic Warmblood mare who was, at the time, hissing and spitting about the application of leg, as the young and athletic Warmblood mares of the world have been known to do.

“I’d be a little panicked,” she said as we scrambled over hill and dale, “if I hadn’t known you for a decade and watched you suffer through Midge and Ella and Fender and Danny and Dorian’s five-, six-, and seven-year-old years when they were teenage dirtbags. And they all worked out. So I have faith.” Read More

For the first time in history, a major political party in the United States has several women who have declared their candidacy to be their party’s presidential nominee. But TV pundits have been questioning whether, despite the progress indicated by the huge influx of women elected into Congress last fall, the U.S. is ever going to elect a woman to the country’s highest leadership position.

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The College Application and YouSenior year is here. You’ve spent months compiling a list of the right colleges and visiting campuses and now it’s time to submit your applications.But where should you begin?Your first task is to note the application deadlines for each of your schools and meet with your guidance counselor to learn the steps that students at your particular high school must take in order to have letters of recommendation and official transcripts released to the colleges.A completed college application consists of the following items:

• The application form itself, which includes personal and family information such as where you live, where your parents went to school and work, how many siblings you have, and what courses you’ll take as a high school senior.

• A resume or list of your extracurricular activities, which some schools require you to submit as a separate document. Many others, however, will simply ask you to type in activity details, including how many years of participation and approximate hours spent on the activity per week.

• A copy of your official high school transcript, which outlines the courses you’ve taken in your first three years of high school and the grades you’ve received. It may also include your attendance record and results of any state examinations taken.

The majority of college applications also include:

• An essay, which allows you to tell the about your life or experiences you’ve had that have shaped the person you are. Some applications may require more than one essay or ask for short answers to specific questions.

• Your standardized test scores. While some schools may only require you to submit scores in order to evaluate you for merit scholarship and won’t use them as part of your admission decision, others will require you to submit all scores from each time you have taken the ACT or SAT as part of their evaluation of your complete file.

Colleges will not evaluate applications that lack any of the components listed above, so it’s important to know what pieces you will provide and what pieces must come from your high school. Having a plan in place to get everything submitted well in advance of deadlines will guarantee you receive full consideration for acceptance.

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