Accepting Back
Choosing your university…can be more difficult than you thought… I met with one of my “families” today who are based in Asia. They are expats in their host country, one parent European, the other Southeast Asian. My student, Marie, was accepted by all five of her UCAS choices (that’s the UK) and managed to get two massive merit scholarships from top universities in the US—one at over 30K USD per year—along with receiving acceptances from her first choice schools. (Her very
The Coalition
The Coalition: Not convinced I just attended a webinar on the new application platform under the working title of The Coalition. If you’re a client of mine, you’ve heard of this…but still not much about it as the specifics have been kept rather closely guarded by the creators and partners. Finally, OACAC invited members to attend a webinar hosted by a couple of The Coalition partner universities—Yale and Smith—inviting on the panel a US school guidance counselor and an Inde
The career question for young adults
The discussion and debate over career paths for young adults is a never-ending one. Jeff Selingo published an article in the NYTimes about this topic recounting a story that we hear regularly today in 2016 but that happened in…the 1800’s. With all of the uncertainty of career-focus, studying for the right career or diploma-relevant-to-career-path, Selingo nailed something I try to tell every parent: what matters is how students navigate their college years (less so than wher