Surviving the College Application Process

Written by Lisa Bleich Develop a Plan for Sophomore Year.  You should have a sense of what types of activities you enjoyed last year in school and identify two or three academic, social and [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich Juniors, start off the year with a plan of what you want to achieve and how. This will make the year more productive and less overwhelming. Create a Testing Plan.You can [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich. As we meet with our clients to brainstorm for their personal statements (or college essays), it reminds us how much we enjoy delving into the depths of our clients and [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich When I applied to college in the mid-eighties, I filled out my application on a typewriter, put it in an envelope, and mailed it to my prospective colleges.  My guidance [...]

Guest Blogger: Sam Rosensohn The New Evidence-Based SAT: Easier on the Reading, Harder on the Math After trekking through the 211-page Test Specifications of the Redesigned SAT by the College [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich I attended the NJ Association for College Admissions Counseling at the beginning of June where I had the opportunity to hear Jeffrey Durso-Finley and Holly Burks Becker, [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich. Build it and they will come.  That is the famous line from the movie, Field of Dreams, but it is also the adage of Rutgers University’s Future Scholars Program.  [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich. In last Sunday’s NY Times Article Why You Hate Work, Tony Schwartz and Christine Porath argue that most people hate work because they are burned out. I hear similar things [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich. “I am so done with school!” declared my daughter “I know it’s hard to stay motivated, but you only have two weeks left.” “Gabby doesn’t have to do any more work” “Yes, but [...]

Lisa recently visited two schools in southern Ohio.  See below for her reports for the University of Cincinnati and Xavier University, both in southern Ohio. University of Cincinnati is [...]