Clueless About How to Get Into a Top College?
If you know any class of 2025 high school seniors who just went through the college application process, their experience could be summed up in three letters:
WTF?
Shockingly low acceptances. Thousands of students waitlisted at colleges they "deserved" to get into.
College admissions barely resembles what you and I went through, 30 ish years ago.
Yesterday's "Safety Schools" are today's impossible dreams.
Example: The idea of the well-rounded student hasn't been a "thing" in college admissions since people communicated by fax and drove horse and buggies.
Question: How did Northeastern go from a 90% acceptance rate in 1986 to an elite, top 50-ish college in 2025?
The rules of the game have changed.
If you're confused, scared or you-know-whatting-a-brick about your son's or daughter's chances of getting into a decent -- let alone an Ivy or comparable college -- I have two things to tell you that should help.
1. It's not your fault!
You're not taught this. And your high school counselor is pretty clueless about what it takes to get into a top college, because they're not TRAINED that way.
2. This can help.
*We're running two free presentations in the next few days. Tomorrow, May 15, we're live for an in-person workshop (not online) in our office in Glen Head, 6:30pm.
We have three (3) seats left, reply to this email if interested ASAP.
*The other presentation is an online workshop (plenty of room) Wednesday, May 28th. Here's the signup page.
If you have a 9th, 10th or 11th grader, these presentations are highly recommended.
You won't get this information in school -- probably because it touches on some "third rail," politically incorrect, forbidden topics and information I've gleaned from 22+ years, in the trenches, advising kids of all colors, races and creeds.
Don't say I didn't warn you :)
-Andy "Calls It Like I Sees It" Lockwood
P.S. I'll be covering strategies and tactics to help your child get into his or her "Dream School," as well as strategies to qualify for tens of thousands in scholarships, even if you're "affluent".
Here's some of what you will discover in our upcoming workshops:
*Winning" extracurricular activities vs. "same old, same old" boring ones that don't help a student stand out
*The 60-40 framework college admissions officers use to judge your child
*Surprising facts about who gets aid (even if they think they "make too much" to qualify for anything"
*How to negotiate a cr-ppy, so -called "final offer"
These presentations are for families with children in grades 9-11.
If you'd like to attend our In-person workshop in Glen Head tomorrow night (5-15, 6:30pm) reply to this email immediately.
For information about the online workshop on May 28th, go here.