Is Bernie Behind the New SAT Changes?
The College Board, the “nonprofit” (hah!) behind the SAT, announced that it was reintroducing an “adversity score” to its scoring system. In short, kids who come from disadvantaged neighborhoods will receive some sort of behind-the-scenes, double-secret notation on their SAT file for colleges to use as they see fit. Although this policy appears to fall short of…
5 Things “They” Won’t Tell You About Getting Into College Today
The most common thing I hear when I chat with prospective clients? “We have no idea where to start, things are so much more complicated than when I want to college!” I hear this from multi-millionaires and single moms with extremely low incomes, sometimes the same day, hours apart. You’d think that parents with deep…
How to Become the James Holzhauer of Merit Scholarships
Test Prep | Webinar | ACT/SAT Diagnostic Last week Pearl and were “off,” but still working. Turns out that we had near-identical conversations with separate families, each containing an important lesson. Each parent had a senior (Class of 2019) child who had managed to get into their top choice colleges. Our convos went something like this: Parent: She…
Post Lori/Felicity Fallout
Last week I found myself back at the Manhasset Library (with electricity this time, which really helped) chatting with 18-20 parents and kids about college admissions, scholarships and the rest of the kid and kaboodle. One mom asked me if I thought there would be any changes, now that we’re living in a post Felicity-Lori…
Lockwood Latest College Advisor Ensnared by FBI Probe
April 1, 2019 Boston, Massachusetts: FBI agent John McGillicuddy III announced today that the FBI had indicted another college advisor, Andy Lockwood, as part of its widening college admissions probe. “According to our key witness, Ms. Avrille Furst, Lockwood first approached Furst back on April 1, 2018, promising her and her daughter, Avril Furst the…