How to turn that NO into a YES (sort of): Reject­ing Col­lege Rejections.

Jeff Bren­zel recently posted on The Huff­in­g­ton Post his advice for stu­dents when they have been accepted to col­lege. I thought that this was a great idea since even though it’s extremely impor­tant to dis­cuss deal­ing with dis­ap­point­ment and road­blocks, it’s just as impor­tant to dis­cuss what to do with those accep­tance letters.

As Eliz­a­beth men­tioned, Feb­ru­ary is a month filled with oppor­tu­ni­ties for bud­ding rela­tion­ships (col­lege accep­tance let­ters) and heart­break. (sigh…rejection let­ters). In some cases, these same let­ters may force some soon-to-be grad­u­at­ing high schools seniors to revisit a ques­tion they once con­fi­dently answered months before pen­ning rough draft per­sonal state­ments. What's more, the answer to this […]

The Los Ange­les Times ran an arti­cle, where fash­ion colum­nist Adam Tschorn inter­viewed Neil Patrick Har­ris from “How I Met your Mother” who dis­cussed how much he loves his Paul Smith and Dolce & Gab­bana suits, because they fit and flat­ter his tall and nar­row frame like no other. The arti­cle reminded me of the […]

On Thurs­day, the New York Times ran an arti­cle describ­ing a grow­ing trend among senior cit­i­zens: sleep overs! After spend­ing the day­time acquaint­ing them­selves with the facil­i­ties, retire­ment com­mu­ni­ties are offer­ing prospec­tive senior res­i­dents the oppor­tu­nity to take in evening social events and the oppor­tu­nity to spend the night. For senior cit­i­zens, this is a […]

With Hanukkah wind­ing down and Christ­mas right around the cor­ner, news­pa­pers across the coun­try this week have high­lighted some cool web­sites and mobile phone appli­ca­tions that can make com­par­i­son shop­ping a lot eas­ier. One prod­uct that caught my eye, was the mobile appli­ca­tion, Shop­Savvy, cre­ated by Big in Japan, a devel­op­ment com­pany based out of […]

Some­where within the never-ending piece of lit­er­a­ture you might cur­rently know as the Com­mon Appli­ca­tion (or any col­lege appli­ca­tion for that mat­ter), you are asked to high­light some of your skills. Yes, it’s easy to write that you are pro­fi­cient in Microsoft® Word®, Excel®, and Pow­er­Point® (the later will become the bane of your existence […]

So you’ve toured the cam­puses, taken the SATs, and filled out a moun­tain of paper­work. And yet…the dreaded per­sonal statement/statement of purpose/epic essay remains. What­ever its name, the col­lege admis­sions essay is cru­cial for an appli­ca­tion to just about any school. Many times you can use (or at least tweak) the same one for several […]

When strug­gling with a sub­ject in high school, you might have looked for a local tutor to help clear up the con­fu­sion. And it was safe to say that the tutor was either a local col­lege stu­dent, or recent col­lege grad­u­ate. So, what hap­pens in col­lege when you are strug­gling with your course­work? Who tutors […]

When I went on col­lege tours, I asked a lot of questions—just not always the right ones. We spend so much time dis­cussing majors and minors, perks and places that it’s easy to miss some cru­cial details of a col­lege visit. Here are some aspects of col­lege life that I hardly thought about but are […]