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What College Applicants Get Wrong
The official e-newsletter of The Equestrian College Advisor.
"College is a formative time, not only for students’ minds but for their life skills as well. For the hundreds of thousands of undergrads in the United States who enroll as teens, college may mark the first time they have to manage their own schedules and master a laundry routine."
"If high school students didn't already question the fairness of the college-admissions process, the "Varsity Blues" scandal might have gotten them thinking about it. A survey released Monday finds deep wells of skepticism about whether they'll get a fair shot from admissions offices."
"It was an easy mistake — small print, lots of application balls in the air at once and a teenager who had never managed a complex process before. When my oldest son applied to college, he and I thought we knew when the application was due. We assumed his Common App and art supplement needed to be submitted by Nov. 1, for early admission. As I obsessed about him applying to college, a not uncommon response to the looming reality of a teenager leaving home, I reread the admissions website and discovered his supplement was due before the application. He now had three days to finish what he thought was not due for almost three weeks."
