Neurodivergent Students: College Readiness & Transition

Neurodivergent Students: College Readiness & Transition

đź“ş If you have college-bound students with learning differences, you’ll find a lot of useful information in this video, College Readiness and Transition for Neurodivergent Students! We cover: ▶️ The difference between being “college-capable” and...
College Support Options for Autistic Students

College Support Options for Autistic Students

Like their peers, many autistic students attend college. Of the 50,000 teens on the spectrum graduating from high school annually in the United States, at least a third of them pursue higher education (Shattuck, et al., 2012; Wei, et al., 2015). However, their...
Getting Into College Is the Easy Part

Getting Into College Is the Easy Part

When helping students apply to college, I am deeply impressed by their persistence in writing and rewriting what sometimes seems like an endless stream of essays. Every fall we eagerly await that exciting news flash: You’re in! And then the real work begins. Yes,...
6 Reasons to Consider a Gap Year

6 Reasons to Consider a Gap Year

Choosing among the colleges they’ve been accepted to can be an exciting (and sometimes stressful) process for graduating seniors, but there’s still another big question to answer as well: should they start college right away or defer for a year? For many students,...
3 Steps to Acing the “Why us?” Essay

3 Steps to Acing the “Why us?” Essay

3 Steps to Acing the “Why us?” Essay If you’ve started working on supplementary college essays, you may have seen prompts asking you to explain why you’re choosing to apply to that school. For example, Tufts University asks, “Which aspects of the Tufts undergraduate...