Guiding Students Along Their Pathway to Success

When families think about college applications, they focus on essays, test scores, activities,  and transcripts. But there's another document that plays a major role in how colleges understand a student's accomplishments, and most students never even see it. It's called the School Profile, and it accompanies every transcript your high school sends to colleges. This one to two-page document provides an overview of your high school and is created and updated each year by the co

Somewhere along the way, many students began treating failure as a personal label rather than a temporary setback. The New York Times once observed that failure has shifted from an action I failed to an identity I am a failure. Any parent who has watched their teen meltdown after a disappointing grade or feedback knows exactly how quickly young people make this leap. Yet every major body of research tells us something very different: failure is not the opposite of success. It

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