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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. Read More

"It must be September, because the parents of high school seniors are panicked about college. As a high school counselor, I did everything but give away free gas to get parents to visit me in the spring, but usually to no avail. Now, I'm buying my groceries in the next county because so many parents want to solve their senior's college woes in Aisle 6 of the corner supermarket."

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"You want your essay to be the one that is passed around the admissions office…. or not. It’s a little bit like the difference between being famous and infamous. We all know that a sincere, well-written essay that provides insights about how the student has matured, is occasionally shared among the admissions staff. But, I’m guessing that there are a lot more essays that produce eye-rolls, giggles and gasps of “not again.”

So how do you make your essay famous instead of infamous? Read More

"Actress Lori Loughlin was arrested for the crime of bribing the University of Southern California to get her daughters into the school. The college admissions scandal, which also took down actress Felicity Huffman, divided Loughlin’s family and her relationship with her daughters, and shed light on the tradition of rich parents enabling their children’s education by handing over  large sums of money to elite universities.

People have asked why a parent would do this, and the answer has been something like, “Wouldn’t any parent do all he could to ensure the best for his child?” But shoeing a child into circumstances to which they are ill-suited doesn’t do them any favors. What’s at issue is Loughlin’s expectations, which had less to do with who her children were than who she wanted them to be." Read More

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