11 Ways to Jump Start the College Admissions Process Your Junior Year
Guest Post By International College Counselors With the release of the new Common Application, the 2012-2013 college admissions cycle has officially started. From a college admissions point of view, the Junior year is the most important year of high school. Whatever college you plan to attend, a clear strategy will guide you toward your destination. Here are eleven tips from the college advisors at International College Counselors that will help Juniors jump start the college admissions process. 1. Meet with your counselor. Discuss your career goals and the classes you... Read The Rest →
Why Lifestyle Matters
Summer can be busy with carpools, kids leaving for college, kids coming home from college. There are a lot of late nights filled with family fun. But the summer months are a perfect time to recharge your battery and give some TLC to yourself! Tonight’s guest is Heather Frey, Owner, Founder and President of SmashFit (http://smashfit.com/), a one-of-a-kind personal trainer and fitness matching website. She is here to chat with us about caring for yourself when your kids go off to college. After 18 years of raising our children, it... Read The Rest →
How to Deal With Your College Kids When They Come Home For the Summer
They go off to college as your sweet little baby, but when your college-age kids come home, all they want to do is sleep and stay out all night. Your summer can end in disaster if your expectations and your child’s expectations clash when they come home for the summer. On the one hand, you are looking forward to seeing your child. You miss them. You expect them to be the same person they were when they left to go off to school. But, they have spent the last year... Read The Rest →
How to Empower Your Child by Letting Them Know They Matter!
Life and work is hard enough and it is easy to get into situations that tear us down. People want and need to be inspired. When people are inspired, they are lifted above these kinds of circumstances and allowed to see the upside of what they can achieve or become. If you can be the one who inspires them, by encouragement or modeling, you’ve helped them and you matter! Mattering is a process not an event. Take your dreams and your talents seriously and inspire your child to do the... Read The Rest →
Open House in #CollegeCash Expert Panel Night
Welcome to #collegecash so excited to see everyone. Let’s meet our Expert Panel not in any special order (oh they are in alphabetical order). Tonight we had an Open Mic, Open House forum that gave parents opportunity to meet and tweet with our experts. Please welcome Dr. Nancy Berk wrote College Bound and Gagged: How to Held Your Kid Get into a Great College without Losing Your Savings, Your Relationship, or Your Mind. Nancy received her PhD from Vanderbilt University, is a stand-up comic and has been described as “Dr. Phil meets Tina Fey.” Nancy... Read The Rest →
Sending Kids to College
This time of year always takes me back in time as I recall the overwhelming process of preparing my children for college. Preparing your children for college is an emotional experience to say the least and preparing your bank account is overwhelming. There are applications, and I shudder at the memories of my children picking an average of ten schools to send these to. The paper work, the fear of letting your children go…it is a bigger experience then most of us realize. The biggest stress I faced, as do... Read The Rest →