5 Strategies for Early College Planning

What if college advisors guided families on search and application strategies sooner? High school students typically begin working with college advisors in 11th grade. Before that time, it is believed that students lack sufficient grades or reliable test scores for use in building college lists or doing admissions planning. Increasingly, I am hearing from families … Read more

On Academics and Pandemics

This spring, college students were sent home with urgency because college leaders understood science. Now, they are planning to welcome students back to campus before a vaccine is ready. So as you plan for fall, let me share my thinking, which is drawn from recent college news and information sessions with industry leaders: Read the … Read more

What’s New? 5 Big Changes in College Admission

Adults naturally draw upon their college admissions experiences when talking to teens, even if those events are from a time before smartphones–and a lot has changed since then. So, it is important that I inform families about how college admissions processes operate today compared to a few years or decades ago. Today, college admissions officers … Read more

Where Has the Financial Aid Gone?

When my son and his peers graduated recently after 4 years of college, they faced student loan debt that averaged $30,000 nationally. By contrast, when I graduated from college three decades earlier, my student loans totaled less than $3,000. This begged the question: Where Has the Financial Aid Gone? My accompanying article entitled, “Financial Aid Trends During … Read more