Surviving the College Application Process

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Earlier this year I listened to a webinar entitled How to Snag—and Keep—Your Dream Job presented by Laura Klein & Jill Miller Perrin of Business Talent Group. Laura and Jill described how [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich I recently went to visit Colgate with my youngest daughter. We arrived on Colgate’s campus just as the snow was starting to fall. The campus was just as beautiful as [...]

PSAT scores have recently been distributed to students and there’s some confusion about how to interpret the scores. Pull out your score report and watch the informative video from test [...]

Harvard recently released a report entitled “Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good through College Admissions.”  This study challenges colleges to rethink [...]

How to list colleges on the FAFSA has long been an issue with families as there were rumors that the order may impact financial awards. For the past few years we’ve recommended that [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich. Thanksgiving is a time filled with family, turkey, football, and in many houses newly returned freshmen. (I picked up my newly returned sophomore at the airport and we [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich I had a chance to catch up with one of my sectionmates from business school, Joy Chen last week while in San Francisco. Joy had a long career at Clorox before becoming a [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich Demonstrated interest can be an important element for colleges when trying to determine which applicants are the most likely to attend their schools if admitted. There [...]

The College Tour..Where To Go and What To Do When You Get There Featuring guest speaker Lisa Bleich, President of College Bound Mentor and Author of Surviving the College Application Process [...]