As a reminder, tonight we’ll be co-hosting a College Knowledge Night with C2 Education in Agoura Hills. We’ll be going over all things related to college admissions, testing, financial aid, and more. College Knowledge Night March 18th from 6:30-8:00 P.M. Agoura Hills/ Calabasas Community Center RSVP: https://cpei.infusionsoft.com/app/form/20150318ahccc Co-Hosted by C2! You’ll learn insider tips for college admissions tests, how many hours of volunteering you need to get accepted, the biggest mistakes families make on financial aid forms, secret strategies to get more scholarships and grants, and much more! Don’t miss out!
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Inspirational Quotes to keep Motivated
Education “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin “Education is learning what you didn’t even now you didn’t know.” Daniel J. Boorstein Failure “Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” C.S. Lewis “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas A. Edison “Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure,…
College Planning Experts are Rockstars!
College Planning Experts had such a great time last week at Craig Duswalt’s Rockstar Marketing Bootcamp! I had the pleasure of speaking to the crowd about the importance of passion in entrepreneurship. If your sole motivation is money, you won’t be successful. You have to have a deep-founded desire to do what you love. I founded College Planning Experts in 2004 after my personally frustrating college experience. I wanted to help students (and parents) avoid the mistakes I made in applying to college and in applying for financial aid. Now, after 11 years, College Planning Experts has grown into a successful business, and I couldn’t be prouder. We are able to work as a team, doing what we love. We help make a difference in…
New Event You Won’t Want to Miss!
Want to have one-on-one interactions with college admissions representatives? Come to our event on the 26th! Picking the right list of colleges is important. You want to know that the schools to which you apply are going to be a great fit and are going to provide you with a world class education. This is why College Planning Experts has teamed up with three universities to provide you with an interactive seminar! On March 26th from 6-7:30 P.M., admissions representatives from Pepperdine, Purdue, and Ohio State will be serving as a panel of admissions experts to answer all of your questions. If you want to know what it’s like to go to school in the Midwest, what it’s like to attend a Christian school, what…
Would you want to know why you were rejected?
Earlier this year it was announced that college applicants could review their admissions profile via the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). This came to light when a group of students from Stanford reached out to the school for the information. It went viral, and soon there were templates for students from other schools to do the same. Now it seems schools are trying to prevent applicants from applying for their records. Stanford writes, “The path to Stanford is not easy and the admission process is rigorous and critical. So please ask yourself: What benefit do I seek from reviewing these additional admissions records?… Will my life be better for having reviewed them?” So I ask you, would you or would you…
How will America’s College Promise affect you?
During his State of the Union address, President Obama called for the government to guarantee free community college for its citizens. His proposal, America’s College Promise, is far from being a done deal, but it leaves us to question how this could affect future college students. Currently, the average time it takes a student to get through community college and transfer is 3 years. In the state of California, where education budget cuts have cost us faculty and course offerings, students are particularly struggling to get the classes they need to transfer. Did you know you cannot transfer to a Cal State or U.C. school unless you are at junior standing? If you need to be at junior standing, you have to take…
Does your race affect your chance of getting in?
I recently read an article in the Los Angeles Times about the landscape of college admissions with regard to race. The article opens to tell a story of a college prep company in the San Gabriel Valley that shows parents graphs summarizing the need for Asian American students to do better on their tests. The company says Asian American students “are penalized by 50 points [on the SAT] — in other words, they had to do that much better [than other races] to win admission.” The presentation was meant to show parents what they’re up against in trying to get their students admitted to top colleges. I can wholeheartedly say that this is absolutely wrong. In fact, in response to this article a former admissions…
What is a good financial aid award?
We’re reaching that time of year when your senior should be hearing back about where he/she got in to college. But that’s not the only thing on which you should be getting news. Financial aid award letters are beginning to go out, and you want to be prepared. Schools will want to lure you to attend their find institutions, but I think it is important that you understand how to interpret a good award from a bad award. It may seem shocking, but these award letters aren’t straight forward. I recommend you follow these steps: 1.) Know your EFC Make sure you are aware of your Expected Family Contribution (EFC) when comparing awards. Without this figure it is difficult to determine the good awards from…
7 Things to Consider When Hiring a College Planner
We always get questioned on whether or not we’re a scam. People assume that getting a big discount on college is too good to be true, and anything too good to be true must be a shady business. I’m here to explain to you that this is not the case. In fact, Forbes would agree with me. There are many strategies to get money for college, and if you’re hiring a college planning firm to help… it’s a good decision. They’re the professionals, and they can efficiently provide you with resources to beat the cost of college. You just have to be careful. There is a lot of misconception in the college planning industry. There are lots of companies out there, and it is true…
Can Twitter help you pick the right college?
I’m sure by now you’ve read about colleges using social media accounts to make decisions during the admissions process. If you haven’t, I highly encourage you to check out this article. It is important for high school students to be aware of their activities online, as “35 percent [of college admissions officers, surveyed by Kaplan] said they found something that negatively impacted an applicant’s changes of getting in.” Social media has become an everyday part of life, and you need to be careful of what you put out there; but you also need to be aware of how to use it to your advantage. USA Today posted an article today about a student who used Twitter to choose at which college she would attend. With…
