Surviving the College Application Process

Written by Lisa Bleich Earlier this month I attended the Independent Educational Consultant Association (IECA) conference and had the opportunity to hear Amy McCready, founder of Positive [...]

Lisa spent last week visiting multiple schools in Indiana. Click below to read the full report for Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, DePauw University, Butler University and Indiana [...]

It’s time to think about which teachers you will ask to write your letters of recommendation. You’ll want to ask your teachers before the school year ends and provide any supporting [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich How does a school go from a regional leader to a national powerhouse in 7 years? How does a school go from an acceptance rate of close to 60% in 1999 to a 12.5% acceptance [...]

Drew Heilpern, PhD, the general manager of Summit Educational Group’s one-on-one in home and remote, online tutoring division wrote this guest blog post analyzing the new SATs. The College [...]

Congratulations to all seniors for making your final decision and depositing!  Now that colleges have a better understanding of their enrollment for the fall, they will begin going to their [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich I asked my seniors on what was their deciding factor in picking their college. I received varying answers, clear on the deciding factor they individually had. However, one [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich In Thomas L. Friedman’s, article,  How to Get a Job at Google, Part 2   he interviews Laszlo Bock, who is tasked with hiring for Google.  As I read through [...]

Written by Beth Cassie “Hope springs eternal.” For all of us, the first signs of spring stir hopefulness for something new. Here in the northeast, we are finally seeing signs of spring and it’s a [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich “I hate Passover!” is a constant refrain I hear from my girls when they are annoyed that they can’t eat bread, or pita chips, or basically anything they normally enjoy [...]