For colleges that care whether high school students “demonstrate interest” before applying to college, doing so can create a college admission advantage. I explain how to figure out which colleges don’t care if you demonstrate interest. This can save time you time during your college-bound journey! For those colleges who don’t care, you don’t have …
Demonstrated Interest: How to find it on the Common Data Set Read More »
THIS IS AN AUTOMATED TRANSCRIPT… PLEASE FORGIVE THE TYPOS & GRAMMAR! xo-Lisa Brooke Hanson 00:00 My balance is shifting. I get a lot of families and everybody has so many questions. They want to talk to me for an hour on how to game test optional, rather than how to game the s&p. So …
#50 ACT-SAT Test Optional Admission Data Transcript Read More »
Show Notes EPISODE SUMMARY Covid brought about the rapid growth of SAT and ACT test-optional for college admissions, which has been great for some students. As we move past Covid, should your teen be taking the tests now? My friend Brooke Hanson from Supertutor Media Inc and SupertutorTV says in most cases yes! In this …
#050 Best of 2022: ACT-SAT Test Optional Admission Data Read More »
THIS IS AN AUTOMATED TRANSCRIPT…PLEASE FORGIVE THE TYPOS & GRAMMAR! xo-Lisa Welcome to College and Career Clarity. This week, we have Vicki Weisbrod on with us. She is a school and college counselor at Bishop Fenwick High School. Bishop Fenwick is a parochial high school in the greater Cincinnati and greater Dayton, Ohio areas. It’s …
#49 A Game Changer – Career Counseling in High School Transcript Read More »
We all know that college is expensive, so parents don’t like the idea of their students wasting time on majors; they end up changing while trying to figure out their career path. Vicki Weisbrod is a counselor at Bishop Fenwick High School in Ohio and along with her team, they are the first high school …
#049 A Game Changer – Career Counseling in High School Read More »
Show Notes EPISODE SUMMARY As parents, what we want the most is for our kids to lead happy lives. However, even though our hearts are in the right place, we sometimes struggle to say the right thing to help our children in moments of stress and crisis. This is especially true when it comes to …
THIS IS AN AUTOMATED TRANSCRIPT… PLEASE FORGIVE THE TYPOS & GRAMMAR! xo-Lisa Ned Johnson 00:00 By dealing with an adverse experience something that’s real hard, even something that’s traumatic, but having something we can do, where we feel a sense of control, and we can cope with that. It wires the brain not to …
THIS IS AN AUTOMATED TRANSCRIPT… PLEASE FORGIVE THE TYPOS & GRAMMAR! xo-Lisa Eric Endlich 0:00 All colleges will have disability accommodations, such as extra time on class extra time on tests or taking a test in a separate classroom. If you need a quiet space, sitting in the front row, bringing your laptop to …
#47 The Neurodivergent College-Bound Journey Transcript Read More »
Show Notes EPISODE SUMMARY What does the college-bound journey look like for neurodiverse students who have ADHD, Autism spectrum disorder, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, and other learning disabilities? What should parents of high school students with learning differences keep in mind as they navigate the road toward college and career? My guest in this episode is Eric …