An Open Letter to College Admissions Offices from Anchor Collegiate:
The admissions season is almost upon us. As an Independent Educational Consultant specializing in College Admissions, I work with quite a few military connected children: Children of Veterans, Children...
View ArticleThe Case for Persistence as a Teachable Skill
My kids were lucky. They had some great teachers throughout their high school years. My oldest still corrects everything for syntax errors on a regular basis due to her 11th grade English teacher. My...
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MIND THE GAP, part one: How the Gap between High School Graduation and...
Recently, I received a frantic phone call from a client’s mother. She was trying to make sense out of two completely conflicting pieces of information- one from her son’s high school, the other from...
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A Case of September Sadness: the Melancholy of Leaving your Child at College
It was one of those moments that you don’t see coming, but stick with you forever. I was walking through the campus of my younger daughter’s college, her at my side. She had come back early for some...
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The Case For and Against Early Decision
The longest period of time for any high school student is the moment between hitting send on the application and the “ping” of email with your decision attached. One way of reducing that time waiting...
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The Case for Return on Investment
A few years ago, I was touring some colleges with two HS students. Girls who had exceptional academic credentials were well spoken, conservatively dressed, and beautiful. (Full disclosure: my daughter...
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The Case for Treating All Interaction as an Interview
Recently, I was honored to represent a small, highly-selective, liberal arts college at a College Fair.1Accompanying me was a young client, who was going to use this opportunity to speak with some...
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The Case for Affinity, Yield, and the SAT Questionnaire
Autumn is a busy time for College Counselors in general, and for Anchor Collegiate in particular. A few days ago, I was speaking to a potential client’s mother. Her son, a Junior in High School,...
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The Case for Managing Expectations
I sat with Theresa1the other day at a local coffee shop and watched the stress ooze from her pores. At the tail end of a spectacular four year academic sprint through High School, she was completely...
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The Case Against Cheating: What We Can Learn From China.
Recently, the Educational Testing Board, administers of the SAT, reported that there was enough evidence to consider that there had been widespread, international, cheating on the SAT taken on October...
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Deferral: A Case of Sitting in Limbo
(I apologize for not posting since November. With College Admissions deadlines, my first priority was to my clients and family. Posts will resume with regularity. mea culpa)Recently one of my clients,...
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The Case against Empty Promises in Fancy Envelopes
A few years ago, I received an email from an acquaintance’s son. He had been “nominated” for an “Ambassador” program promising a cultural and educational experience traveling through Europe for 3...
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The Case for Moving On: WAITLISTED.
Recently, I ran into a parent of a senior. (As in all small communities, there are no secrets- and what I do for a living is well known.)This parent Doris* and her student, Natasha* are not my clients,...
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The Case for Letting Go
I was totally unprepared to take my younger daughter back to college this year. She was asked, last minute, to return to school 2 weeks earlier than planned to assume a leadership role on campus...
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The Case for Struggling
I was on the phone today with a client whose smart and capable 11th grade daughter struggled a little last year in one of her classes. Her mother was happy she struggled, the student? Not so much. I...
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The case for Laundry Independence
Recently, I was approached to speak about College Readiness. Parents asked me a number of questions about finances and academic skills. At the end of the discussion, I was asked by the moderator, “...
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The Case for Honesty.
The New York Times recently published the results of an investigation of the TM Landry Preparatory School in rural Louisiana. What the NYT found was systemic lying on behalf of the administration and...
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