College-Focused Articles & Presentations

Critical Academic Skills for High School and College Success (from Winter 2023 Insights)

Need Versus Want: Helping Students Build a Healthy College List (from Fall 2022 Insights)

Benefits of Internships: Paid and Unpaid (from Winter 2021 Insights)

Eliminating Equity Gaps Through Data & Analytics (by Dr. Timothy Renick, Georgia State University, presentation from IECA’s 2019 Fall Conference in Atlanta)

How Parents and High Schools Can Cultivate Ethical Character and Reduce Distress in The College Admissions Process (from the Making Caring Common Project, 2019)

AP Overkill?

Transfers: When It’s Just Not the Right Fit

SAT and ACT Score Concordances (PDF)

Help Students Find Their Strength to Beat Their Stress

Compass 360 College Profiles New SAT & ACT (PDF)

The Final Word on the New SAT and Revised ACT (PDF)

Healing the Anxious Mind: Techniques That Work (PDF)

Comparing the Tests: Current SAT, New SAT, ACT (PDF)

Differences Between College Admission Tests (PDF)

A Changing Educational Landscape (PDF)

Taming the Tiger of Test Anxiety

Advising Your Students About the New SAT

New Crime Reporting Standards Help Protect College Students

College Counseling for IB Students

Challenges and Strategies for Assisting Latino Students with College Access and Completion

Essential Resources for College Consulting: The Sequel

College Admission for Student Leaders and their Advisors

Demonstrated Interest and How Colleges Count the Ways

Admissions Decisions: A Business Model

Entry into the American University System

The American Freshman: National Norms

The Commercialization of the College Application Process and the Rise of the For-Profit Educational Consultant

Top 10 Things Rising Seniors Can Do This Summer

Top 12 Things Colleges are Looking for in a Student

Common College Myths