As our students' high school careers near their end, achieving good grades becomes ever-more important. There’s a lot at stake, in particular, the range of colleges from which they can choose after graduation. And with the cost of a college education being so high, excellent grades could be worth money in the form of bursaries and sponsorships. Even kids that don’t want to study further need to work hard. If a high school diploma is to be their highest educational achievement, it will be with them for the rest of their working careers. In today's episode I describe how we can help students to formulate goals that hey can can work towards, and how services like Going Ivy College Consulting can help in that process.