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5 TIPS TO KEEP IN MIND WHEN LOOKING AT COLLEGES

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Start The Process Early (12-18 months ahead)

“The college admissions process can be stressful and can elicit anxiety in both students and parents. This feeling is compounded when students make a choice to wait late into the fall of their senior year to start their research and applications.

The application season now opens for almost  all colleges on August 1st each year.  Start the process as early as you can and do not procrastinate.  See the big picture and make a calendar that includes your final due date and work backwards. Give yourself mini goals that can be accomplished in small intervals. This will help  prevent the fatigue that comes with the college admissions process.”

Get To Know Your Guidance And/Or College Counselor!

Your biggest advocate in the college admissions process is going to be your school counselor. If you are not familiar with your counselor, make time to get to know them. More importantly, make sure they know you. These counselors will be providing a letter of recommendation,  and your counselor can help you devise an admissions calendar and help keep you accountable as you work through the process.” 

If you feel you need more assistance than your counselor can assist ou will,  college admissions consultants can also assist you.  These people usually travel around the country and tour colleges and universities.  There consultants can give you an inside look to a college that might help you with your decision.

Ignore Your Boyfriend/Girlfriend, Cousin, and Best Friend.

These people may be close to you,  but they are not you.  In my 12 years of experience meeting with students and parents, there is a very interesting barriers that can stand in the way of real progress.  

Without fail, every student has a brother, sister, parent or cousin that has attended an Ivy League school, scored 2400 on their SATs, has received a full ride fencing scholarship, has been published in a peer reviewed journal, etc. In addition, your parents or your aunt, is an expert in college planning and pretty much has your future planned. She knows the best major and and career for you and has created a spreadsheet to make sure each Ivy League school application is submitted in a timely matter.

You are not your brother, your sister,  you parent or your cousin. You are YOU! . What is good for someone else may not be good for you. Keep this in mind as you work through the college admissions process. Your parents or aunt willl eventually forgive you.”

Focus On Relationships, Not Rankings

Rankings are about how many books are in the library or the grants theiir scientist have recieved.  It has  nothing to do with what your life will be like at the school.  

“Students should focus on colleges in which they can create solid and lasting relationships. Rankings can help consumers find colleges that have strong quantitative qualities (number of academic programs, faculty/student ratio, number of teaching faculty, etc.), but what these rankings don’t take into account is the institution’s ability to assist students in creating relationships and contacts that will benefit them in their future careers.

It is important that students take responsibility for this aspect of their college life, but certain colleges do a better job making this a priority. In my experience, alumni are more likely to attribute success to the quality and quantity of relationships formed during their undergraduate years. Students with poor ‘relational capital’ can certainly find success, but it is unlikely that they will have the same experience as a student who focuses on, and knows the value of, developing relationships.”

While a college consultant can look expensive up front,  a college consultant can help you streamline this process, saving you money, time,  and lost credits in the future.  Transferring from a school that is a wrong choose can be very expensive,  and also effect your financial aid.

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Treat Your College List Like A Financial Portfolio

“Unfortunately, college admissions standards have become more competitive than any time in our nation’s history. For this reason, it is more important than ever to be smart when devising your final list.  Treat your list like a financial portfolio. It would be unwise to put all of your money into high-risk stocks, but also too conservative to put all of your money into low-yield mutual funds. Your college list should include safety, 50/50 and  stretch colleges. Your school counselor or college consultant can use their experience to help you determine which colleges fit into the appropriate category, taking into consideration your academic profile. Keep in mind that the goal of the admissions process is to eventually have options. If you keep this perspective in mind, you will be just fine.” 

REMEMBER: Pick the best school for you...  the money WILL follow!

High School Guidance Counselors Are Becoming Few and Far Between

Counseling of high schools studetns is become more specialized.  More and more, we are hearing that schools are changing the ground work for their high school counselors.  One counselor wrote "As a counselor,  I deal with students facing many challenges including but not limited to depression, truancy, drug abuse, sexual abuse, homelessness, school failure meanwhile I have to also provide student academic guidance. My workload in the past few years has more than doubled due to the economic crisis and the school board announced recently that it might very soon be eliminated".

Like physicans,  schools are now looking at counselors as a specialty,  where there is no longer a counselor who will handle all issues.  Some with deal with those students who suffer with drug, sexual, physical, or mental abuse, homelessness, school failure etc. as a new category, followed by school counselors, and then others will over see the guidance and/or college counseling.

Guidance counselors jobs are in jeapordy because many counselors are being replaced by college consultants who can spend more time with a student and who do not cost the district one penny.

Students need to be more pro active and learn what is needed in their education for them to succeed.  College Admissions Consultant is one way for families to keep their students on track.

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SHOULD YOU BE CONSIDERING A COLLEGE ADMISSIONS CONSULTANT?

Private College Admissions Consulting is a booming industry that offers to help families navigate the often-confusing and stressful process of college admissions.  There are approximately 800 College/Educational Consultants across America who regularly tour colleges, keep up with all the newest trends,  continue their own education on a constant basis, and are members of at least one of the several national organization.  

Demand for applications advice often exceeds the capacities of most public institutions. Indeed, public high schools in the United States employ an average of one staff member per 500 students. In 2013, 26 percent of all college applicants -- three times as many as in 2003, hired a "private admissions consultant" or an "independent educational consultant (IEC)" to assist with their college applications.

Fee-based college advice has long been available, but where such services once catered to students with difficult cases, an uneven transcript or learning differences, now they are becoming mainstream.

Unfortunately, because this has been such a closed industry for so long, many are just learning about "college admissions consultants".  Many believe there are is one on every street corner.  If that is true, you should double check their qualifications.  Many believe they understand the process and how to make it work without any proper training.

Responding to public demands for greater insight and access to college, private admissions consultants offer a range of services from test preparation and college selection, to essay and interview coaching and application packaging. Some consultant businesses provide a bevy of courses and coaches. Others merely focus on the application and are small businesses owned by individuals, who may have worked in counseling, admissions or for a university in the past. Still others are new to the profession and have an interest in working with teenagers and families. Their backgrounds and experiences vary greatly from education to marketing to athletics and the arts, as do their services.

No matter who you hire, ask a lot of questions!

FACEBOOK LOSES THE "LIKES" TO YOUR PAGE(S)

One our website, we noticed a few days ago that our likes dropped from what is now 903 to 59,,,,,  What happened.  We filed a complaint and after several discussions trying to clarify the issues, we got this message a few minutes ago

"We have received a lot of complaints regarding users losing their FaceBook Like count on their WIX site.

We have approached FaceBook regarding this matter and have asked them to look into it.

Please note that the FaceBook API is the engine that is providing the counter for your FaceBook Like button.  This applies to the FaceBook Like Widget from WIX, as well as using FaceBook's code to generate the Like counter using the HTML App.

If you are experiencing a loss in your FaceBook Like count for your site's url, then please contact FaceBook regarding this matter.

You can raise an issue with FaceBook by contacting the FaceBook Help Center here."

So hope they do  fix this issue.   As far as I am concerned,  Facebook is the worse place to try to contact anyone to talk about a problem.  They post all kind of messages and it is so confusing that I usually say "forget it".. but today, I am really sad--  and upset,  and I dont think this issue will get resolved!

So if anyone did like our page, and you are not there.. please LIKE us again!   I lost something that at least made me feel people saw me..  now I am dust in dirt.

The College Admissions Consultant

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