Improve Standardized Test Scores by Jeannette Webb It’s the test taking time of year. Students all over the country are preparing for the SAT, ACT, AP and SAT Subject tests. You can choose to hate them, but they are a part of life for the college-bound student and are critical in the college application [read more] …
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Time Management for Busy Moms
Time Management for Busy Moms By Jeannette Webb You spend a great deal of time organizing your children’s academics. It is also important to organize the non-academic part of life – both the children’s activities and family pursuits. You must make wise time use choices if you want to be successful in preparing [read more] …
Power Resume Words
Power Resume Words By Jeannette Webb It is always interesting to me when I begin working with students.I look over their profile information:classes, grades, test scores, activity list, etc.It is usually interesting, but fairly generic. Only through talking with them do I gain insight into their life and extracurricular profile. Quite often they have done [read more] …
Summer Plans Affect College Admissions (Part 2) – Learning How to Work
Rogers and Hammerstein immortalized the windswept plains of Oklahoma. It was a brutal existence for the early pioneers. It is still a hard land for those trying to wrest a living from the soil. It was in that crucible that my children learned to work. My daughter tells the story best in these excerpts from [read more] …
Summer Plans Impact College Admissions
Did you know that how your child chooses to spend his summer will impact college admissions? Whoa there! Don’t go out searching for all the latest and greatest summer camps and conferences with which to pack your child’s schedule. That’s not what I’m talking about at all. However, it is critical that your high schooler [read more] …
The Myth of Well-Roundedness
Back in the day I was applying for scholarships and to college, “well-rounded” was the buzzword. Students who spread themselves thin over many activities won all the awards. My own personal college activity record was a nightmare. I was a member of no less than 16 organizations, president of two, and officer in ten. I [read more] …
Are You a Vision Caster?
I just love talking with my grown children. We have the greatest discussions and thoroughly enjoy our time together. Recently, my daughter and I had a particularly intriguing conversation where she was relating a discussion she had with her Bible study teacher about Vision Casting. When I asked her to clarify the term in context, [read more] …