A couple of summers ago, I was in Colorado and getting a shit ton of messages from anxious students about how to create a college list. It’s a daunting task under the best of circumstances, and during a global pandemic, making visiting colleges difficult and even impossible, it can feel…

Y’all might already know this — my second favorite part of college admissions after the personal essay is helping create college lists. It combines my love of travel, research, learning about culture and people, and education. I love throwing out suggestions for students to explore and go off on their…

I’ve done this the last five summers and gotten some amazing responses, so I’m sure this year y’all won’t disappoint and there will be just as many amazing responses! …

I hope you are all staying healthy and as relaxed as possible as we move into the height of our summer. In Houston, our summer is pretty brutal, I know, but even so I hope you’re finding time to relax and enjoy some time away from the rigor of school…

While this is a month to celebrate diversity in gender and sexuality with our rainbow apparel and flags — and in my case a huge inflatable rainbow in my front yard — it’s not all rainbows, sunshine, and unicorns when thinking about applying to college as part of the queer…

One of the most difficult aspects of the college admissions experience is this feeling that you don’t have control over the process. That colleges make all the decisions. …

This is basically an abbreviated version of pretty much everything I say throughout the year; hopefully, it’s organized in a way you can find useful. Junior year is where your college admissions journey starts for real. You now have quite a few items to tick off your to-do list, but…

I’m gonna be super real with you — life is feeling just overwhelmingly kind of stressful to me right now (I live in Texas so maybe that will help you understand). So much so that my May Mental Health Awareness Month Post is being posted on June 1 — and…

We’re in the middle of AP season and there are tons of questions, so let’s try to get through some of them. Out of the first 20 or so posts I saw yesterday morning, at least 15 of them were about AP scores. While I don’t mind answering each one…