"Stop and Smell the High School Roses" Harvard University grad and college admissions coach, shows seniors 3 ways to endure the wait for college admissions letters. https://www.facebook.com/grownandflown/videos/982422405191173/ Related: Darling, You'll Be great at College Because I Crushed Parenting I Know, Mom: Recent College Grad Reflects on Fight to the Finish Best Graduation Gifts 2017 ... View the Post

Writing the common app essays can feel daunting so here’s one of our favorite comforting pieces of advice about getting started from the writer Anne Lamott: Thirty years ago, my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write and it was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, ... View the Post

I flipped my wall calendar over to February this past week and experienced one of those brief moments of sheer parenting panic as I realized my son, and youngest child, will be graduating from high school in a mere three more calendar flips. So much to do before launch, with so few days to get it all done. I feel somewhat prepared in a few ways, as a Been There, Done That Mom, but I’m finding it’s a little different when it’s your baby, and unlike last time – it’s a son, rather than a ... View the Post

College bound seniors and their weary parents are now in the back stretch of nearly eighteen grueling months of the college application process. The fruits of all this labor come to a head on May 1st, National College Decision Day, when students make their final enrollment choices. However, this decision-making frenzy may also begin the process for a lesser-known, much less endearing admissions classification: The Wait list. A college wait list can be viewed as a sort of student-purgatory ... View the Post