Great news! We’re moving. We’re going to a custom designed space that will allow us to take even better care of our many terrific clients. We will be at the new office as of October 9, 2012. We look forward to seeing you there. The address is: 11613 Spring Cypress, Suite C Tomball, Texas 77377 [...]
College Application Advice
June 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Dr. Raymond Huntington offers some good general advice about how to help your high school student be competitive in the college application arena. The statistics he offers concerning the increasing percentages of students applying to college explain why it has become so difficult to get accepted into the top schools. Take a look at his [...]
Student debt: What’s been driving college costs so high, anyway?
June 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Average tuition at public four-year colleges rose 73 percent from 1999 to 2009, even as median family income fell about 7 percent. Tuition at private colleges outpaced income, too. Here’s why. Aaron Marks graduates this spring with a business degree from a good college, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and, unlike many of his classmates, a good [...]
Does a College Degree Really Matter?
June 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Discover Career System Video Tutorial
May 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In this video tutorial, Dr. Jerry Daniels walks you through the Discover Career Guidance and Information system that we use with our clients. You’ll learn how to take the assessments, what to do with the information and how to get the most of out of this system to help you find the right college and major. Note: To [...]
5 Tips For Staying Involved In Your Teen’s Academic Success
May 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Jeff Farmer As the parent your role on your teen’s school success team is critical. Don’t make the mistake several parents do and decrease your involvement when your child starts middle school. More now than ever – they need you! Both middle and high school present a new set of challenges for a student [...]
Vocabulary and Spelling Still Count!
April 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Watching TV is Never Good for Me. I recently saw a commercial on TV that really set me off. It was for a women’s multi-vitamin, and the tagline was “There’s complete, and then there’s most complete.” This is the kind of blatant misuse of the English language that gets students in trouble on the SAT [...]
Fight The Fear And Get Smart
March 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
by Jeremy Farmer When I hit my 30s, I had a “revelation,” for lack of a better word. I realized that there is incredible value in setting goals and actually sticking to them. What is the #1 thing that keeps us from achieving the goals we set for ourselves? FEAR FEAR is “False Evidence Appearing [...]
Pulling an All-Nighter for the College Application
February 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The New York Times August 10, 2010 Everyone has their own ideas about how, when and even why seniors should submit their college applications. Take a look at the reaction of admission professionals to a student who submitted his application only three hours after the application became available. In this case the early bird will [...]
Employers Favor State Schools for Hires
January 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Wall Street Journal September 13, 2011 There are specific majors at the Ivy League schools and at small liberal arts colleges that hold the attention of employers seeking a particular set of skills, but employers prefer to do the majority of their hiring at large state schools. In business, most decisions are driven by [...]
