by paulculp | Feb 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
By Paul Culp, MA (Oxon), CFT, GCDF, CCSP Applying for college and financial aid usually involves a goodly quantity of writing. One of our students wrote 22 essays last year, and we are encountering similar totals this year as the admissions decisions keep coming and...
by paulculp | Feb 13, 2019 | Admissions
Photo by Mike Strasser/Pointer View, www.army.mil By Paul Culp, MA (Oxon.), CFT, GCDF, CCSP Applying for admission to the service academies can be a character-builder. Or perhaps, to borrow from Heywood Hale Broun’s oft-quoted remark about sports, applying for the...
by paulculp | Feb 8, 2019 | Admissions
By Paul Culp, MA (Oxon.), CFT, GCDF, CCSP Alone or in a group, you need a canny strategy for your college visit, and timing is crucial. One of the most attractive features (if we may say so) of our four-week College App Boot Camp is its emphasis on timetables, on...
by paulculp | Feb 6, 2019 | Money, Paying for College, Scholarships
By Paul Culp, MA (Oxon.), CFT, GCDF, CCSP We’ve just been taking inventory at The Coaching Educator, and we’ve found that since we instituted this blog about nine months ago, nearly a third of our posts have had directly to do with financial aid and college costs. In...
by paulculp | Jan 31, 2019 | Admissions, Applications
By Paul Culp, MA (Oxon.), CFT, GCDF, CCSP “Call no man happy before his death,” Sophocles wrote. In other words, it’s never too late to ruin your life. Late winter and early spring mean the end is in sight for high school students waiting for the verdict from college...
