Happy Holidays! Oprah has her list of favorite things. Here are some of Debbie Merion’s favorite gift ideas for teens, college kids, and parental units. Ear buds or a headphones… read more →
To all 2021 high school graduates: College is the start. Before you know it, you’ll be Twenty-one years old. 2025 Correct year that you can vote? So much power… read more →
This is the time of year I am starting to hear from Essay Coaching students about acceptances and being deferred, postponed, or wait-listed for college–different words to request the same… read more →
When teaching Common Application Essay secrets in free and low-cost classes for high school students and their parents, I say, “If you remember nothing else in this class, remember this:… read more →
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 →
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 →
