Finding Scholarships

If you do not qualify for needs based financial aid and your school does not offer merit aid, look for outside funding through local scholarships. Click here for an article I wrote about finding [...]

Sending a child off to college is never worry free.  As a parent you hope that you have instilled enough opportunities for independence for your child to thrive on his or her own, but the true [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich “I want to come home, I don’t think I can finish the year, “ My daughter pleaded. “What?” I asked in disbelief. “You have less than a week left of classes and then finals, [...]

“What are you grappling with?” I asked each of the Harvard Business School mentees as they joined my table during the speed mentoring evening. “The CEO of the my company just offered me a new job [...]

We are very proud of our students and happy to report that everyone has been accepted to a school that is a great fit for them.  It seems like every year, we say, “this was the most [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich Student who were waitlisted are in good company. Colleges used the dreaded waitlist heavily this year because they are trying to manage their yields and have no way of [...]

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It used to be that “love is in the air” during springtime, but not so for high school and college students, instead “stress is in the air.”  Anxiety runs high for seniors as they find out [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich Texas A & M University began as a military academy. While it is now the second largest public university in Texas, the sense of tradition and decorum associated with [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich Trinity University is tranquil, orange brick campus set upon a hill overlooking San Antonio. Trinity is a hybrid liberal arts college providing students the ability to [...]