"With my first child, we were definitely overwhelmed and your services helped us maneuver the college search, requirements, deadlines and application paperwork. As an older parent, things are certainly different today than it was when we applied to college over 30 years ago. Your one on one meetings with my daughter certainly gave her the confidence to apply to some of the tougher and better schools we did not believe she can qualify for let alone get scholarships. She got accepted to her dream school, which we all believed was a "Reach" school as well as others where she got academic scholarships. Being ADD, we were concerned about her getting things sent when necessary (transcripts, letters of recommendations, essays, etc.) and when some schools required more than one essay, you kept her motivated to continue and finish what is required. When my second child started the college search, because he strongly believed in his college choices you recommended providing a more scaled down service with simply helping in his essay compositions. He made the first cut and submitted them to you for content. I was proud of his initial essay, but when you returned your comments, they were definitely very insightful and helpful to steering him in a positive direction. You also helped him decide on the early admission versus restrictive early action applications. It is a big commitment and you called the schools for us to determine which decision to make. My son is very happy with his decision and ecstatic with the results."
-Elissa S. |
Top Ten Tips for Finding the Right College
- How important is the geographic location to you?
- Do you want a smaller school or larger school?
- Do you want to go close to home or far away?
- Do you want to live in a big city or in a small town?
- Do you want an academically demanding environment, or one where you can do well without working as hard?
- Do you know what you want to major in, and if that school offers that program?
- Do you want to play a sport in college, and do you think you have the ability to play?
- What are you looking for in the social scene?
- Is having a Greek life (fraternities & sororities) important to you?
- Are college costs of great concern to you and your family?
Top Ten Tips for Completing Applications
- Call or get online and request the current application.
- Have two copies of your application; a working one and a final copy.
- Read all instructions carefully.
- Set a personal deadline in advance of the due date to complete the application.
- Do not leave anything blank; have every line filled out.
- Work on your essay during the summer after your junior year.
- Submit all of the parts of the application together.
- Submit a resume.
- Proofread. Make copies of everything.
- Make sure you have the right postage on it; or that it has been received if you filled out the common application.
Top Ten Ways for Freshmen to Adjust to Colleges
1. GET ORGANIZED.
This is a great time to get your clothes and room in order, to go through and decide what you want to pack and take to college and what you do not want to take. Be sure that you send ahead some personal items that will remind you of home, and reflect your personality in your room, such as pictures of family and friends, your high school yearbook, posters and sticky stuff, a Texas flag, personal knick knacks, a stuffed animal, book ends, and decorations that are fun! Go through and see that you have enough jeans, shirts, shorts and comfortable shoes to get you through until Thanksgiving or until you get home. Be sure to have sweaters, a jacket, hat and gloves, if you are going to colder climate. Pack everything in suitcases that will fit into each other, for easy storage and don’t take too much as dorm closets are usually small. Get multi-tiered shorts and pants hangers so that they will take up less room.
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