Of all the parts of the college admission process, completing the financial aid portion was and still is my least favorite part of the admission process. While the FAFSA and CSS profile sound daunting with all of the terminology it uses and personal financial...
I’m not normally one to make New Year Resolutions for the same reason I’m not planning out who I want to marry and what can of a house I want ten years after graduation: Life happens. Whenever I made a foolproof plan of what I wanted to do as a kid it never panned out...
It was at this exact moment during my senior year when I began to hate the college application process. Once you’ve narrowed down the list of schools you want to apply to and start going through their writing supplements, financial aid forms if you’re doing early...
Though it’s only been three weeks since classes began, this year is drastically different than when I was a freshman trying to make a name for myself. I dropped nearly every single extracurricular activity I joined to focus on the one I enjoyed and became a resident...
As students near the last leg of the high school race, a sense of anxiety kicks in about whether you’re truly prepared for the college you plan on attending. First generation students and especially those going to elite or ivy league universities question their...
As the snow of winter begins to fade, millions of high school seniors across the country are expressing joy and sorrow about college decisions. March Madness of college acceptance and rejection letters cause more jubilation and depression for an entire family than the...
For most high schoolers, managing their finance is the last thing on their mind if it is ever is at all. The only time I thought about budgeting was when I was deciding on the lunch I ate since for the most part my father managed my bank account. While knowing the...
As cliched as it sounds, it would be an understatement if I said that my first semester of college was not what I expected. Academically, I made the first semester freshman mistake of taking Calculus I even though I just took pre-calculus this past summer before the...
As a first year student, adjusting to life on campus is not an easy process for most people who may have never been away from their family for an extended period of time. When I was applying to college, I purposely choose schools far enough in the Northeast that I...
As many of you are preparing to apply to colleges, you are revising your personal statement. Unlike your transcript, resume, and recommendations, your personal statement is the only opportunity you get to tell your story to colleges and explain why you deserve to be...