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Confidence + Assertiveness = College Success
Posted on June 14, 2018 at 9:41 PM |
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I talk with students who often fear they don't have what it takes to do well in college. They are also often reticent to ask for what they need to be successful. The culprit behind this academically deadly situation is a lack of confidence and assertiveness. The first step to gaining confidence is to get control of high school success and develop a plan for college success. That plan has to include developing the confidence that the student can succeed with the appropriate help and the courage to ask for any help that is needed. Today's student lives in a digital world that only shows the successes of friends. To them, they are the only teens on earth who experience self doubt and academic challenges. No one tweets that they just got turned down by a college or failed to make honor roll. All they see is the glowing successes of friends. Encourage the student in your family to celebrate his successes, no matter how small. Teach him to recognize that what he sees in social media is only part of the story of the lives of his friends. Remind him that he is talented and capable and help him learn good work habits, study skills and assert himself. |
The importance of early prep for college admission
Posted on March 10, 2018 at 9:27 PM |
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Aside from the importance of doing well academically, building an impressive extracurricular resume and performing well on the SAT or ACT, there is a huge amount of work students must complete in order to gain college admission. Unfortunately, students are only aware of a small percentage of the work they will need to do. Parents are also unaware. Most families tell me that their vision of what they need to do to get a student into college is complete college applications and financial aid forms. With that vision of the process, students often put off completing their college applications because they believe that they will only need a small amount of time to complete a few forms. The process is much more complicated than that. There are at least thirty steps to take to get into college and those steps have sub-steps of their own. The best thing to do is start early and get as many of the steps as you can done during the junior year. That will mean you can get applications done quickly during the summer after the junior year and start the senior year ready to file applications and work on scholarships. |
Rising Senior Summer Tasks
Posted on June 13, 2016 at 1:33 PM |
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Does your rising 8th grader get the concept of GPA?
Posted on June 9, 2016 at 10:12 PM |
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Digging scholarships out of e-trash
Posted on August 16, 2015 at 12:56 PM |
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Summer time is prime time
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 5:22 PM |
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Most colleges offer college tours 5-6 days each week every month of the year. Reservations can be made online 24 hours a day on the admissions page of college websites. In addition to daily tours, most colleges offer overnight and weekend visitation programs. High school calendars show term breaks and teacher work days that parents can use to plan day trips for college tours. Summer vacations and term breaks allow time for extended trips to colleges more than a few hours away. Scholarship research is a skill that students can learn as early as middle school. Because many scholarships are available every year, students can identify potential scholarships a few years in advance of applications. Research to identify scholarships and required essays for scholarship applications and college applications can be completed on term breaks, over summer vacations and sometimes as school assignments. Extra reading is important for college-bound students. Breaks and summer vacation provide precious extra time to read outside of class. Outside reading is important because it improves both reading and writing skills students need to excel on standardized college entrance exams. Additonally, some colleges ask students to list books they have read that were not required for classes. Students can multi-task by reading novels required in scholarship competitions and admission essays. |
When is it too early?
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 11:30 AM |
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As children grow through developmental stages in pre-k and elementary school, parents and grandparents can help them develop skills that set the foundation for academic success. The development of social and leadership skills can also pay off big later. Later, when middle school children are on the diving board to high school, families can help them learn the skills that will help them do well. High school will be a new and intimidating environment, preparing them ahead of time will keep them from floundering and not finding themselves until 11th grade. Well-prepared children entering high school have goals, know what is important (and what is not) and feel comfortable in their own skin. Such students have a positive self image, good work ethic and an understanding of the importance of achievement in academic and extracurricular arenas. They form friendships with students and teachers, are active in their school and enjoy volunteering. These are the students who become the "well-rounded" students that colleges seek. |
Paying it forward really pays off
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 8:28 PM |
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These students have a heart for people and for service and are motivated by their altruism, spirit and the adults in their lives: parents, teachers, neighbors and media personalities. Local and national examples of the impact that students can have on the world will be on display at 8pm tonight as the HALO Awards are broadcast on nationwide television on Teen Nick at Nite. Parents and grandparents who want to enhance the growth and development of the children in their families should encourage children to think about what they can do to bring solutions and added value to challenges they experience and issues in their classes, schools, communities and the world. The most effective way to prepare young children to be active in society is for parents to volunteer. In addition to the powerful modeling effect that seeing family members volunteer has on children, parents can go one step further and facilitate the membership of their children in age-appropriate organizations such as scouting, 4-H, school clubs, community organizations, church youth programs and non-profits. Colleges and scholarship grantors look for students who are involved in their schools and communities. By starting students on the volunteer track early, parents are providing an important foundation that pays off later at college admission and scholarship time. College admission and scholarship time is much earlier than most people think. Small children benefit from attending family friendly activities held on college campuses in their communities. Setting foot on a college campus early, makes it a familiar and less intimidating place. Scholarship contests begin at about age 6. Elementary and middle school students can build an impressive scholarship war chest for college. See inspirational examples of student accomplishments from teen Kyle Weiss of California who raised money that built soccer fields in South Africa, to Shanoah Washington in Florida who established Sista2Sista mentoring program and Virginia Teen, Emily Anne Rigal who runs a national anti-bullying non-profit, WeStopHate.org. at www.TeenNick.com. |
The right time to talk to kids about college
Posted on July 7, 2011 at 9:22 AM |
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The reality is that involving kids earlier in discussion about college can make the entire college process easier. Why? Because the college process is so closely tied to the development and education process for children and teens. College and other post secondary education opportunities are almost always a critical part of how we get to what we want to be when we grow up. The concept of a post secondary education needs to be introduced to a child early enough for them to include it their developing dreams and expectations about their future opportunities and choices. The earlier a child understands that their entire k-12 education is a set of sequential building blocks that will impact what choices they have after 12th grade, the more relevant their homework and development of academic skills will be to them. It is NEVER too early to introduce the idea of college and post secondary education to your child once they are old enough to begin talking about what they want to be when they grow up. |
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