Daily Archives: November 22, 2022


How Helping Others Helps Yourself in (Life and) the College Admissions Game

I hate it when I hear super nerdy geeks complaining about grades in the 90s. Don’t get me wrong, the best students are super nerdy geeks, but as a lifelong card-carrying member of that hard luck tribe, even I was satisfied with any academic assessment if the first digit was a nine. I was also never one to whine about a minus following a letter grade, so long as that letter were formed by line segments only (self-denigrating laughing emoji here). But seriously, with all the experience and best-intentions to help students have the best chance of acceptance to top […]