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Randi has posted a new blog entry about the college search experience for equestrian students - check it out!
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JUNIORS:We've talked a lot about essays this spring - here are four that The New York Times singled out as some of the best. (Notice that each one was chosen because it was PERSONAL!) And for a bit of fun - "The Rules of Improv Apply to College - and Life" UNDERCLASSMEN:Did you watch any coverage of the recent IHSA National Championship show? Here's a full recap. IEA Team Riders: Good luck at Nationals!TRAVEL/EVENTS:We announced this week that I'll be the featured Saturday speaker at the 2014 Lendon Youth Dressage Festival Midwest hosted by Hampton Green Farm in Fruitport, Michigan. I'm excited and honored to join everyone at this wonderful event!A reminder that I will be unavailable for meetings from June 12 - 22 due to a horse show, a visit to six Indiana colleges, and the destination wedding of a college friend. I will keep up with email and text messages, just no formal scheduled meetings will be held.Parents:Good news regarding student debt levels!From the blog:It’s true confession time on the blog this week, students. Yes, that’s right – I’m about to admit something to you that might come as a bit of a surprise. Here goes:I feel your pain.Empathy, I have long known, is one of the best qualities that we educational professionals can have when it comes to working with students and families through the heart-wrenching and emotional roller coaster that is the college admissions process. We counselors have to understand the life-altering decisions you’re grappling with, the idea that choosing one path will take your life in a particular direction and choosing another can take you on a journey that is the complete opposite.(Side note: College applicants, the new Broadway musical If/Then will probably only heighten your nervousness, so don’t buy tickets until after your applications have been safely submitted.)After the build up and anticipation, is it any wonder that at the moment of submission, the very moment when all you have to do is click the mouse and send the application, your heart leaps into your throat and suddenly your finger won’t work? Why is it so hard to finish the job?!Read More