The official e-newsletter of The Equestrian College Advisor.

From the blog:

If you Google the terms “college athletics” and “social media,” you’ll turn up the few hundred thousand articles that have been published in recent years and discuss the ways in which college admission officers and coaches utilize students’ social media profiles and postings to analyze their fitness for a particular school or team. You’ll also undoubtedly find that the articles proliferate as time goes by and that they outline the ways in which high school students have misused social media, been found out, and lost either their admission to a particular school, their athletic scholarship, or both at the same time.

You would think that, with as easy as it is to find this information (less than a second if you type fast), high school students would catch on to the dangers of posting certain things in public places online and the instances of students tanking their entire futures in one keystroke would diminish. Read More

New research has learned what parents of riders have known for a long time now:

Riding horses can make children smarter.

“I’ve just been a working student for basically the entirety of my riding career,” said [Miguel Wilson]. “And I’ve never had a horse of my own—I just go to each barn and learn.”

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