Category: College Admissions

Holistic review is a process, recently adopted by the University of California school system, in which student applications are reviewed in the context of particular challenges a student has had to endure. (To put it bluntly, under holistic review, a minority student growing up in South Central…

Myth #4: If I get a humanities or liberal arts degree I’ll be “unemployed and unemployable” because I won’t have any marketable skills. Nope. One recent study suggests, in fact, that over the long haul humanities and social science majors out-earn those who went through professional and…

So what do you do? Deciding how to pick your major doesn’t have to be all painful. Schwartz has some good advice, which I’ve adapted here for the high school senior picking a major: Decide what’s most important to you. Sound impossible? It’s not, actually. Take…

4. Your job may not exist yet Here’s a list of ten jobs that didn’t exist ten years ago. The list includes app developer, sustainability expert, social media manager, and (one of my jobs) educational consultant. Who knows what new careers will exist in ten years?…

Do you have the right goal? Ask yourself: am I thinking of getting into college as trying to “get something” for myself? Am I trying to satisfy my own ego? According to LaBier, “such goals are, in fact, less likely to generate positive outcome, whether…