Advice for Rising Seniors (2025 families)
I'm going to go a bit negative this morning, if you'll indulge me.
This time of year, it's rare for a day to go by without having to break bad news. We get several calls and emails per week from Class of 2024, high school senior families, looking for help with appealing wait lists or rejections from colleges. And more requests for help negotiating financial aid and merit aid offers.
We have to turn down 9 out of 10 of these requests.
The worst part is that an alarmingly high percentage of inquiries come from moms or dads who have followed us -- reading these emails, attending our webinars and in-person workshops, even speaking to us 1:1 -- since last year, or longer. Had they retained us a year or two earlier, we could have helped them avoid the pickles they're currently in.
It all could have been avoided.
Tonight, I'm doing one of my last presentations of the year for Rising Seniors -- yes, that means current 11th graders, but not for long -- to help you avoid these highly avoidable, self-sabotaging, unpleasant results, including:
*Your child may not get into the college he deserves...while others with lesser grades/scores do
*You may self-sabotage your ability to qualify for tuition discounts, grants and scholarships you otherwise deserve
*You might have to let your child down if she gets into his “Dream College” but you can’t afford to send her
Final comment: I won't be holding anything back as a "tease" or pressuring anyone to buy a time share. 98% of tonight's presentation will help you understand how to build a strategic college list, write an essay that sells, not bores, how to get your hands on merit scholarships or financial aid, etc. Then and only then, at the end, I'll tell you how we can help you if you're looking for professional advising.
If you're not interested in that, consider this message your hall pass to get out of class early :).
Here's where to sign up and read up on the topics on tap for tonight:
- Andy "Nattering Nabob" Lockwood
P.S. Please share this with anyone you know who is freaking out about college applications, essays, getting into college, etc. etc. etc.