Word: counselor
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...doesn’t provide helpful information to College-bound students, neither would Harvard’s decision to boycott the list. Consequently, the most important contribution Harvard could make to the college admissions process is a continued focus on spreading information to as many students, parents, and college counselors as possible. While recruiting trips to underserved regions are a good start, the admissions office should support to counselor training programs and the dissemination of qualitative information about a wide range of colleges. After all, if students don’t have good college counselors to answer important questions about...
...variety of different means of information students and parents might have,” Fitzsimmons said. “The kind of information they use is publicly available, and it’s important for us to provide such information.” Thacker, a former high school guidance counselor, said witnessing the suffering of applicants motivated him to seek an alternative to the existing system. Thacker’s project aims to provide “robust information and self-diagnostic tools” for students to select colleges. He wants to create a non-profit mechanism that...
Take Robert Skiff, co-founder of the Vermont Commons School, where he is an admissions counselor and the social sciences chair. In his downtime - if the climate's right - he is an avid currency trader. "I'm not very active right now," says Skiff from his home in northern Vermont. "You have to be willing to walk away if your models aren't going to fit," and he now feels the environment is too unstable...
Smith applies the same kind of arithmetic and discipline to his personal life, and as a result, he enjoys a Hollywood rarity: a stable 10-year marriage. "Our first official date was with a relationship counselor," he says. "The math of it is simple. Start while it's good. Do it three times a week while you're laughing and still having fun. You get so much more work done. You head off problems. Do it during the ether time, and do it aggressively. There's nothing you've ever been successful at that you didn't work on every...
...rating will allow, and where the strangely Shrekish-looking Hrothgar staggers about drunkenly in a toga that is ever in danger of slipping off his mammoth body. It also takes a while to grow accustomed to the faces of Hrothgar, his wife Wealthow (Robin Wright Penn) and the oily counselor Unferth (John Malkovich). The faces have lines and creases, but they don't look lived in. This quibble subsides when Beowulf appears. The political drama of the palace is instantly amped up to mythical stature, and we can start appreciating the film for what is is: a live-action cartoon...