Manhasset Library Workshop

Announcement for local parents of college bound teens:

I'm doing a free college planning "secrets" workshop  tonight at the Manhasset Public Library, 7pm, and I just learned that they have 20 empty seats with your name on them!

That's sorta kinda what we found out, last minute.  Point is, if you have any of the following questions, and you're free at 7pm tonight, we would love you to stop by:

• Admissions "Secrets": The truth about what it takes to get into a competitive college today (including non politically correct, but true, factors)
• The FAFSApocalypse: What the bejeezus is happening the the FAFSA (financial aid app) and how is it impacting college-bound families today
• Financial Aid Loopholes: How can Long Island families cut colleges costs -- by 56% or more -- even if they believe that there's no way on God's green Earth that they can qualify for anything...so that they can comfortably afford tuition for all of their kids without cutting back on t
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Good morning!

We're hitting the airwaves this morning -- 10:00am EST --  for College Coffee Talk, our live show about college admissions and financial aid news that you can use!   Here's what's on tap for today:

*Feedback on the first digital SAT

*Financial Aid:  when your story doesn't fit in the boxes of the FAFSA

*Bombshell reasons disclosed for the FAFSA disaster

*More, including your questions!

This is a great way to get your college admissions and financial aid questions answered  -- tune in for some free college coaching!

TUNE IN

Grab a cup of joe and we'll see you at 10am EST (recorded if you can't make it)

- Pearl and Andy Lockwood

Yesterday I swapped a few texts with a mom, a successful architect, about signing up her son for our upcoming SAT prep class (starts tonight).  

She was a repeat client, which isn't unusual for a business like ours. What was unusual, however, was the story of her older daughter, Mary.

When Mary enrolled in her prep class with our head tutor, Marissa, hopes were pretty low.   She was a little down and out, having taken the ACT four times, failing to hit the score the rowing coach said she needed to be recruited to her top choice college.

The more she tried, the worse things got.  Marissa and I figured that Mary was suffering from a classic case of Test Anxiety, but the weird thing was that Mary was a competitive athlete, used to performing under pressure.

I personally thought Mary should have opted for 1:1 tutoring to focus on her specific issues, instead of taking a full-blown, basic review, but I kept my thoughts to myself.

Weeks passed.  Mary did all of her homework -- mostly pr...