by paulculp | Mar 7, 2019 | Admissions
By Paul Culp, MA (Oxon.), CFT, GCDF, CCSP Reading widely in our field as we do, we at The Coaching Educator have encountered evidence that an increasing number of high school students who have been accepted to college are choosing to take a gap year, a deliberate 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 | 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... by paulculp | Jan 22, 2019 | Admissions, Applications, High School Students, Money, Paying for College, Scholarships
By Paul Culp, MA (Oxon.), CFT, GCDF, CCSP Hercules apparently wasn’t college material. If he had been, admissions officers and scholarship sources might have found his Twelve Labors impressive as a measure of his community service—up to a point. They probably... by paulculp | Jan 19, 2019 | Admissions, Applications, High School Students
By Paul Culp, MA (Oxon.), CFT, GCDF, CCSP The kids aren’t ready, but the colleges themselves must share the blame for the college preparedness crisis. A few months ago, we reported on the lamentable fact that the majority of American college students leave without...