by juliehanna | Apr 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
[socialring]A New York Times column by Frank Bruni about the insanity of college admissions has been making the rounds the past couple of weeks. In case you missed it, the article promotes Bruni’s new book on the topic. The author will be featured at New Trier in a...
by juliehanna | Mar 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
[socialring]Your helpful high schooler has come up with a list of potential colleges choices, which include a number of institutions located in Colorado, Washington and Oregon (and a few in California). What do these states have in common? Varying degrees of legalized...
by juliehanna | Feb 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
[socialring]In the latest parents’ newsletter from Tufts, Dean of Academic Advising and Undergraduate Studies Carmen Lowe shares a triumphant story of a once-foundering freshman who turned his college experience inside out. It offers some sound insight into some...
by juliehanna | Feb 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
[socialring]The tour guide at Penn was sheepish but resolute: “I’m not supposed to say.” She had just been asked what classes she had taken in her senior year of high school. Calc AB or BC? How many AP sciences? It’s a piece of information...
by juliehanna | Nov 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
[socialring]Performing Arts students know that the single most nerve-racking part of the college search process isn’t the essays, the ACT’s, or grinding out the applications; it’s the auditions. If you’ve decided to go for a BFA Acting, Musical Theatre, Dance or...
