So here's the deal: after reading thousands of essays over the last couple of years, I know you have it in you to write a strong, heartfelt, personal, personal essay. So, I’m sharing with you the exact steps I use with ...
Hello Admissions Family, Yahoo! Let’s get this party started! Common App, Apply Texas, Scoir/Coalition, and UC System apps are now all officially open!!! Now, does that mean that we need to be in a rush and get everything done right away? ...
A couple of summers ago, I was in Colorado and getting a shit ton of messages from anxious students about how to create a college list. It’s a daunting task under the best of circumstances, and during a global pandemic, making ...
Y’all might already know this -- my second favorite part of college admissions after the personal essay is helping create college lists. It combines my love of travel, research, learning about culture and people, and education. I love throwing out suggestions ...
Happy Friday Rising Seniors! I've done this the last five summers and gotten some amazing responses, so I'm sure this year y'all won't disappoint and there will be just as many amazing responses! I have a big post coming later about ...
Hello Admissions Family, I hope you are all staying healthy and as relaxed as possible as we move into the height of our summer. In Houston, our summer is pretty brutal, I know, but even so I hope you’re finding time ...
While this is a month to celebrate diversity in gender and sexuality with our rainbow apparel and flags – and in my case a huge inflatable rainbow in my front yard – it’s not all rainbows, sunshine, and unicorns when thinking ...
One of the most difficult aspects of the college admissions experience is this feeling that you don’t have control over the process. That colleges make all the decisions. And that’s true, colleges do get to use their institutional priorities to eventually ...
Hello Rising Juniors and Seniors (and Sophomores hold on to this)! This is basically an abbreviated version of pretty much everything I say throughout the year; hopefully, it's organized in a way you can find useful. Junior year is where your ...
I’m gonna be super real with you -- life is feeling just overwhelmingly kind of stressful to me right now (I live in Texas so maybe that will help you understand). So much so that my May Mental Health Awareness Month ...
