Deadly Dastardly College Prep Mistakes
I'm going negative with this email. Apologies in advance.
I just tweaked my presentation for tonight's live, local (not live streamed) presentation I'm running at the Bryant Library in Roslyn NY. Most of the material, as it turns out, is about mistakes. Easily avoidable, self-sabotaging mistakes.
Some mistakes are of the commission variety -- things you affirmatively do -- that hurt odds of college acceptance or merit scholarships.
Some are mistakes of OMISSION, meaning things you do NOT do, but should.
If you're local to the Long Island area, and you want to avoid costly errors that can severely impact your/your children's chances of getting into competitive colleges...
...as well as gaffes that could hurt or eliminate your ability to get merit aid or financial aid, then tonight is a terrific, unprecedented opportunity to learn up on all this stuff -- for free --- for reelz...
...that you definitely will NOT ever, never ever hear a hint of a scintilla of a whisper from your guidance counselor, whether public or private high school!
Consider this your last call for tonight. And note -- one last time -- that this is for LOCAL folks, I can't stream this online. Here's where to sign up:
Live Local Workshop - Bryant Library (Roslyn NY)
We're technically out of seats, but I looked over my registration list and am pretty, pretty sure that the folks from Georgia, Las Vegas, California and other non-local locations will not be showing up tonight in Long Island. Just a hunch.
Over and out.
-Andy Lockwood
P.S. Tonight's topics include:
- The inconvenient truth about what it takes -- beyond solid grades and near-perfect SATs, "passion projects" and other nonsense -- to get accepted to a top college today [WARNING: Not "Politically Correct"]
- Financial Aid "Loopholes" - how to legally "hide" your money from the financial aid office
- How to avoid Admissions Armageddon and build a balanced, strategic college list
- Are there any Safety Schools any more?
- Business owners: a major landmines to avoid like an invitation to a George Santos fundraiser (he's running again, fyi :)
- Stone cold facts about how college admissions officers view test-optional applications
- Extracurricular activities that "sell" verses those that bore
- Essays: Chat GPT and other trends
- How to qualify for 56.2% off the cost of college even if you think you make too much money to have a shot at aid
- Negotiation Case Study: How a mild-mannered college advisor squeezed an additional $30,058 from a elite West Coast college...after it's so-called "Final Offer"
- The strange, counter-intuitive reason why six and seven-figure earning families have a better shot at some types of aid than lower earners
- Got a 529? Watch out. The shocking reason why that could be a fatal mistake (and how you might be able to fix things at the last minute)
- How an "expensive" private college could cost less out of pocket than a "cheaper" state university
- More - I'll leave time for Q&A before they kick us out of the library.
Here's where to sign up, if you're local to the Long Island area:
*** BRYANT LIBRARY WORKSHOP ***
P. P.S. Please feel free to share this with other local, college-bound families