I love to answer Essay Coaching questions on Quora.com. This popular question has been viewed nearly 17,000 times: How bored do admissions officers get when they read college essays? These… read more →
As a person who has coached Gen X and Y (Millennial) parents and Gen Y and Gen Z students, I have noticed changes in my fifteen years of college Essay… read more →
This is the time of year I am starting to hear from Essay Coaching students about acceptances and college deferrals. It’s hard to emotionally accept a college deferral and from… read more →
Michelle Obama and Sasha Obama have big news to share in 2019. Sasha Obama, Michelle and Barack Obama’s younger daughter, starts at the University of Michigan as a freshman in… read more →
The 2019 Common Application is one application for over 900 colleges and universities, and launches 8/1/2019. If you’ve never heard of the Common Application, read more about it here. They… read more →
Getting into college is a little like giving birth. You know it can be difficult, but you really want to believe it’s easy because–look around!– so many people have already… read more →
I, Debbie Merion, wrote this post on a slim twin bed in an adobe building at the Upaya Zen Center, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A full moon was peaking… read more →
About organizing college applications: “Organizing is what you do before you do something, so when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” — A.A Milne Wondering how to… read more →
Hello, friends! Are you grinding your teeth more these days? Do you have a teen who is starting to look tired in the morning? If so, your college planning family… read more →
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson But you might be wondering…how do I make the decision in the first place? Are… read more →
