Here’s What You Should Be Doing Now
Each month we tell clients "Here's What You Should Be Doing Now," so that they never have to wonder about deadlines for applications, financial aid, when to visit colleges, more. I hope you take the advice to heart! -Andy Lockwood Links mentioned in this episode: facebook.com.lockwoodcollegeprep lockwoodcollegeprep.com/bootcamp www.LockwoodCollegePrep.com
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Why Some Kids Get In While Others Get "Dinged"
A sampling of recent questions and comments from parents of high school seniors:
Have you ever seen it THIS bad?
Our guidance counselor said [name of high school] is having the worst year EVER with colleges and doesn't know why! It's so unfair!
[So and so] had lower grades and SATs than my daughter but he got in and she didn't!
Here's the thing...
I hear these comments EVERY year!
Sure, when you look at raw stats, out of context like the number of applications colleges receive, you might get a lump in your throat, pit in your stomach and experience flop sweat.
But most of these symptoms are treatable and even preventable, at least when you consult with Dr. Lockwood, Fake MD.*
Here are a few of my diagnostic thoughts (not intended as medical advice. Consult a health professional if you experience swelling, nausea or persistent diarrhea from this letter):
One reason for the increase in applications is NOT because there are more kids applying to college. It's because there are...
High GPA, Low SAT or ACT
NYU's Eggsitential Crisis
Early this week the Wall Street Journal "exposed" New York University as being THE WORST college when it comes to financial aid generosity.
The piece painted a pretty bleak picture, pointing out that, for a college with an endowment north of 1 Billion, NYU ranked 1st in the ignominious category of parent loan (PLUS) debt per family and other related areas.
The article featured a grad student, a woman, who sold her eggs in order to pay for tuition. Twice!
(No word on whether the eggs would receive favorable legacy status once fertilized into college applicants in the indeterminate future.)
We in the college advising biz have known NYU to be, again, THE WORST, stingiest college known to mankind for years, so this article was less than a surprise.
I've witnessed parents and kids tempted -- and sometime succumbing to that temptation despite my best efforts -- to blow 80K per year for a theater education at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
Three of my four kiddos did or do...
