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Posts Tagged ‘college applications’

Anxiety Over College Admissions

May 11, 20113 comments

by Janet Rosier, IECA Member (Connecticut) I was chosen to participate on a panel to discuss the film “The Race to Nowhere” at the Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven in March of this year. After the screening, the audience members were encouraged to give their impressions. The tension in the room was palpable. … Read more »

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Move over “Helicopter Parents” – A Hybrid Parent Has Replaced You

May 10, 20116 comments

by Kathie Carnahan, IECA Member (Louisiana) As college IECs sprinted towards the May 1st universal response date, some of us experienced an increased number of procrastinating seniors. Waffling between this college and that college became an unfortunate recurring theme with several of my students.  All of them are bright, having excelled throughout high school. This … Read more »

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Preparing Our Best and Brightest to be…Excellent Sheep?

December 3, 20102 comments

by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA from The Association of Boarding Schools Conference in Baltimore An excellent presentation to open the TABS conference has attendees really talking. The view of William Deresiewicz, a former Yale English professor, is that our elite institutions—whether at the boarding school or university level—may be teaching our brightest students to … Read more »

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The Shrinking Community of College Males: Worse Than We Thought

October 20, 20101 comment

by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA As I left the office yesterday afternoon I couldn’t help but notice the enormous wall of boxes waiting pick up by the postal service. Thousands upon thousands of SAT and ACT brochures are being sent to members of the Independent Educational Consultants Association, thanks to agreements between IECA and … Read more »

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The Common Application: Thorns in the Roses

October 5, 20103 comments

by Dodge Johnson, President, Independent Educational Consultants Association The Common Application was a major topic at this year’s NACAC conference, and in response, Daniel Devise wrote an insightful piece in his Washington Post column this morning (10-05-10) about the prevailing sentiment that the Common Application is a good thing because it makes things easier for students. There’s … Read more »

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Rankings, Surveys & Magazines: The Silly Season Begins

August 16, 2010no comments

by Mark H. Sklarow, Executive Director, Independent Educational Consultants Association It is this week that U.S. News and World Report releases its best-selling issue of the year: its annual ranking of colleges and universities. Based on criteria that no one thinks is ideal (and few fully comprehend), the result is a week where colleges condemn … Read more »

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College Admission Directors Provide Insights, Endorse IECA Educational Consultants

July 29, 20102 comments

by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, Independent Educational Consultants Association Yesterday afternoon the IECA Summer Training Institute turned the process around as the 94 attendees got to hear what life is like for those involved in recruiting and evaluating potential clients in a session titled, Inside the Admissions Office. In the college session, three leaders came … Read more »

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National Poll Confirms Family Confusion Over College Finances

July 6, 20101 comment

by Mark H. Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA A study conducted earlier this year, and recently published by the College Board and Art & Science Group LLC, indicated that students and parents are making decisions about college applications and matriculation based on financial aid information that is incorrect, incomplete, and inaccurate. In the survey, 59% of students … Read more »

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2010 Edition: What College Are Really Looking for in Applicants

June 10, 20101 comment

by Mark H. Sklarow, Executive Director, Independent Educational Consultants Association The 2010 survey of IECA Members has now been released, revealing this year’s “Top Ten Strengths and Experiences Colleges Look for in High School Students.”  While several items topping the list are unchanged despite the overheated college application process, there are a number of changes … Read more »

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Understanding The Helicopter Parent Phenomenon: A New Book for Educational Consultants Working with Parents and Their College Going Children

June 4, 20103 comments

by Emily Snyder, IECA (Virginia) Yesterday’s edition of Inside Higher Ed has a very interesting question and answer session with Margaret K. Nelson, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology at Middlebury College, and the author of a new book, Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times (New York University Press). Nelson takes the … Read more »

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