About Tonight's Meeting for 11th graders
I just finished tweaking tonight's "encore" presentation, "Late Stage College Planning for Juniors" and have been patting myself on the back since, because of all of the clever phrases and analogies I came up with. Here's a few, submitted for your approval:
"The college process is like a train, it comes into the station and leaves the station, whether or not you are 'ready.'"
"There is life beyond the same Rear Window Sticker Colleges that everyone applies to"
"Each college application must have a 'Thread of Continuity' that runs through it, tying everything together"
There's a whole lot more where they came from, I'm merely scratching the surface (who's excited now????)!
If you're getting sick to your stomach about where to even get started in the process of making a list of colleges that your kiddo can even get into...
...i.e. are there any "Safety Schools" any more? Or...
Do I have a snowball's chance in hell at scholarships or financial aid or scholarships? Or...
What the bejeezus will she write her essay about, or related topics, I really, really hope you can make it tonight! You'll feel a whole lot better if you do, promise. You can trust me, I'm a college advisor!
Here's where to get the logins and other details:
Try to stop by!
- Andy "Tooting My Own Horn" Lockwood
P.S. If you're overwhelmed and maybe even a smidge guilty that you're not even close to having a coherent, strategic College Game Plan for your kids, I can't urge you enough to drop whatever you were planning on doing tonight and log in. (If you have a 10th grader or younger child, not a terrible idea to attend either.)
Tonight's topics:
- The inconvenient truth about what admissions officers at competitive and elite colleges REALLY want to see beyond GPA and SAT/ACT scores (hint: it’s not on Naviance, nor is it membership in National Honor Society, 25 clubs or a five day service trip/teen tour to a Third World country)
- The closely-guarded truth about test-optional policies and how to decide To Submit or Not to Submit?
- How six figure-earning families can qualify for tuition discounts of 56.2% even If their child did not crush the SAT, photoshop themselves into a water polo match or cure a pandemic over the summer
- How to Write a College Essay that "Sells," Not Bores
- How ChatGPT will affect college admissions and financial aid for our college-bound teens
- Negotiation Secrets: How a mild-mannered college advisor helped his client into a “windfall” of an ā€‹additional $30,022 from an elite college AFTER its “final,” stingy award
- Financial Aid Rules' "Tectonic" Changes for families with siblings in college, business owners, divorced families
- More, especially your questions. Pearl and I will be live in chat.
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Please forward this invitation to anyone you know who needs it -- they're not getting it anywhere else, not from their guidance counselors or other parents. Here's the page w/ all the info.