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How to Help Your College-Bound Teen Find the Right Job

By on Thursday, April 3rd, 2014 | No Comments

  From high school on, employment will be a constant consideration for your son or daughter. This can elicit mixed feelings among parents. Your child probably already has a daily schedule packed to the brim with studies and extracurricular activities. There’s often barely enough time for what’s already on his or her plate. Even if […]

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How to Sift Through College Information

By on Tuesday, March 18th, 2014 | No Comments

  College prep overload. If you’re a parent of a college-bound teen, you’ve got it . . . big time. The high schools bombard you with information (which is usually very little concrete advice). The colleges bombard your student with beautiful brochures and promises of academic success if you attend their college. You are bombarded […]

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How to Decipher the Financial Aid Award Letter

By on Thursday, March 13th, 2014 | No Comments

  As the offers of admission arrive, the financial aid award letters will follow. If you’re a novice to the award letters, as most first time college parents are, they can be confusing and vague. Added to the confusion is that every award letter is different, making it hard to easily compare them side by […]

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How to Use LinkedIn University Pages

By on Thursday, February 20th, 2014 | No Comments

  Recently, LinkedIn introduced their LinkedIn University pages, birthed from a parent who saw the need to connect students with faculty, other students, and career professionals. According to Christine Allen, Director of Product Management at LinkedIn: Through my relationships at LinkedIn, I knew that hidden in millions of member profiles were powerful insights about the […]

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How to Use Pinterest for College Prep

By on Tuesday, February 18th, 2014 | 8 Comments

  Since May 2011, visitors to Pinterest have increased by 2, 702.2% and with over a million visitors every single day, it’s an excellent source for information. If you’re not using Pinterest during the college prep process, you’re neglecting a valuable tool. Pinterest’s search tool allows you to organize articles and all kinds of information […]

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How to Demonstrate Interest in a College

By on Tuesday, February 4th, 2014 | No Comments

  Believe it or not colleges want to know you are interested in attending. This interest will have an effect on their offers of admission. If they give you a coveted “accepted” slot, it only makes sense that those slots will go to the students who demonstrate interest. They are selling a service and they […]

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How to help your high school student learn organization

By on Thursday, January 9th, 2014 | 1 Comment

  The steps that your high school student took from middle school to high school were big steps.  For them finding a way to get to school, handle the increased work load, and having to start thinking about colleges were often overwhelming.  If they have a job or are involved with extracurricular activities it magnifies […]

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How to provide parental support

By on Thursday, December 12th, 2013 | No Comments

  Sign up for my FREE parent tips email and get my FREE Ebook on college financing! Or subscribe to my blog on the left and get email updates. Social support of any kind is crucial when you are going through a new and challenging (and exciting!) experience. The college experience is one of the most stressful, especially in the first […]

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How to take a working holiday abroad

By on Tuesday, November 19th, 2013 | 1 Comment

· As the economic crisis continues to affect countries across the world, the option to work abroad is becoming increasingly popular amongst young people Education, work and sports are the most sought after activities by temporary foreign workers As a result of the economic crisis, one of the words that we have incorporated into our […]

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How to be a high school entrepreneur (and wow colleges)

By on Thursday, November 14th, 2013 | No Comments

  Sign up for my FREE parent tips email and get my FREE Ebook on college financing! Or subscribe to my blog on the left and get email updates. Back in the day, in order to get accepted into a great school, all you needed to do was make excellent grades and do really well on the standardized tests. Kind of […]

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