The College Admissions Edge

“Secrets” of Paying Wholesale Prices for College…No Matter What You Earn Originally a live webinar,  topics included: *How six-figure-earning families can qualify for tuition discounts of 49.1% or more * How the financial aid formulas punish you if you saved for college, live below your means and pay your bills…AND how you can level the…

Gather round the podcast fire and I’ll tell you the sad tale of a parent – actually, two different parents — who shot themselves in the collected feet by committing two EASILY avoidable, silly mistakes.   I’m not judging, because I and, if you’re honest, you can relate to the case studies in this episode.…

So there I was, driving around the North Shore of Long Island, when it dawned on me why so many kids have such huge angst over their college essays!   As I came to a stop near the historic William Cullen Bryant Homestead, I snickered at the irony (he was a publisher, hello?), then whipped…

I recorded this episode at a marketing conference in San Diego, which prompted several brain “poofs” that I thought I’d pass along.   The most important idea is about recognizing opportunities, and taking advantage of them.   For college students and recent grads, this is critically important because it’s incredibly easy to go to college…

This episode was originally recorded on our weekly show, College Talk Tuesday (www.CollegeTalkTuesday.live) when we discussed what Andy learned at a national college planners conference in Charleston the previous week.   Topics included: The counter-intuitive, yet obvious reason colleges don’t publish a “recipe” of what it takes to win a merit award The biggest issue…

I recorded this on March 28th, a/k/a “Ivy Day,” when college acceptance decisions from Ivy League colleges come out.   Thus far this cycle, our client have been admitted to top colleges such as Stanford, Yale, Cornell and Amherst College, to name a few….and been deferred or rejected from similarly competitive colleges.   It’s hard…

This recording was originally a last minute broadcast to my Facebook page, cooked up because a Nor’Easter caused a live workshop at local library to be cancelled.   I took a bunch of questions from parents, I bet you have some of them yourself 🙂   Prior to Q&A, I ran through the following agenda:…

This time of year (March) is when many HS seniors have heard back from most of their colleges.   Frequently, kids and parents are at odds about which college to attend.  More often than not, the kid wants to attend the expensive “rah rah” school, while the parents (OK, Dad!) don’t always see the value…

This was a fun event – we went on our Facebook page and spent an hour answering questions, many of which were pre-submitted, but a ton came in on the fly.   There was zero presentation, script, slides or costumes – just me, your questions and a microphone (OK, and a laptop, Facebook feed, and…

OK, this is one of the most important episodes that I will ever record.  It’s chock full of advice that I wish I received in high school.   I interviewed a friend who is a financial planner and author, Chris Jones, who has been teaching a class to students at a local parochial high school…