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Apr 15

Twelve Things People Wanting to Go to Medical School Someday Need to Know — and Often Don’t.

Eleven pieces of advice that can help you get to medical school someday — and one you should hear even though it may not. Many of the hundreds of students I’ve advised at various points before and during the medical school admissions process weren’t properly prepared for it before we…

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Twelve Things People Wanting to Go to Medical School Someday Need to Know — and Often Don’t.

Apr 15

A Vault Full of Fool’s Gold

This is what you may spend in excess to send your child out of state for a public college education. State universities more or less do the same job wherever you go. They produce a lot of teachers, nurses, engineers or whatever at a cost that is subsidized by the…

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Nov 8, 2021

“Big Data” can Help you Decide What Colleges to Apply to

By Matthew A. Weed, Ph.D. Contact: matthewweedconsults@gmail.com or www.drmatthewweed.com We are entering exciting and scary times for people applying to colleges this year. Most are madly researching to try to decide where to apply. Some of this research requires campus visits — whether virtual or in person. Some doesn’t. …

College

8 min read

Nov 8, 2021

Here’s How to Write a Great Personal Statement to Help You Get into the Right College for You

Are you a high school senior and applying to college this year? If you’ve not started on them, it’s definitely time to get working on your responses to the been given for writing your personal statements. If you wonder, “How can I write a statement that will get me admitted…

College Application

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Here’s How to Write a Great Personal Statement to Help You Get into the Right College for You

Nov 8, 2021

Need Good Recommendations for College? Here’s How You Can Get Them

If you’re a high school senior, you can still do a lot to get strong recommendations for college or for jobs after you graduate this spring. That said, starting on this early in your life will help a lot. Many students ask me questions like: “How can I get great…

College Application

6 min read

Need Good Recommendations for College? Here’s How You Can Get Them

Nov 4, 2021

Applying to College? Ask These Questions to Add to Your Chance of Being Admitted to a Great Campus for You: Part Three Of Three

This third set of questions focuses on issues that affect your return on investment in a college degree. …

College Admissions

10 min read

Nov 3, 2021

Ask These Questions to Maximize Your Odds of an Optimal College Experience: Part Two of Three

This second set of questions focuses on what might be called “resource” factors on and around campus that can impact your experience and ability to succeed. The first set is up already, the third will be up tomorrow. As many questions as there are here, the more questions you ask…

College

7 min read

Nov 2, 2021

Applying to College? Ask These Questions to Increase Your Chances of an Optimal Experience: Part One of Three

Where you apply — and go — to college can literally shape the rest of your life. Apply to the wrong colleges and you’ll waste lots of time, money, and emotional energy. You’ll also make “contributions”’ to campuses that won’t benefit you. …

College

7 min read

Sep 8, 2021

Congratulations! You’re Starting College This Fall: Here Are Ways To Succeed — Not Screw It Up.

By Dr. Matthew Weed Before Covid-19 shook the world — and colleges — to its core, we knew that at least a third of people who started college each fall wouldn’t be back for their sophomore year. We can’t say how those figures will look this fall, but it’s reasonable…

College

11 min read

Dec 2, 2020

Applying to College? Ask These Questions to Increase Your Chances of a Positive Experience, Part 3.

Do you want to maximize the return on the investment of time and money you plan to put into your education? If so, my final set of questions focuses on helping you try to do this in the way you and your family hope it will. College Search Consultants, your…

College

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