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Making New Friends Your First Week on Campus

17 Tips for Creating a Great First Impression and Making New Friends Your First Week on Campus

There’s Light at the End of the Tunnel

Planning College Visits As We Return To “Normal”. See how to plan before colleges start welcoming visitors back to campus. Great bonus tips available for both patents and teenagers!

Top Tips for Effective College Visit Planning

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College visit planning expert Janice Caine was interviewed by Betty Frohlking – 10 tips for effective college visits

Parents and College Tours with Teens

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Experience from Over 150 US College Tours

Janice and I have probably been on 150 plus US college tours over the past 10 years. Some with our children when they were doing the college visit circuit, others as a college counselor checking out schools we think our clients would be interested in attending. Other than the campus visits that were specifically for college counselors, there were always teens and parents around for us to observe.

Parent / Teen On-Campus College Visits

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As you embark on a parent-teen college tour you may want to keep the following suggestions in mind:
Keep a positive attitude

Advice For Parents of College Bound Students

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Are you a parent of a college-bound teen?
Do you feel left in the dark about the college search process?
You’re not alone

Planning College Visits: Avoid Move-In Shock with Expert Tips

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Planning college visits in advance can and will play an important role in insuring things go smoothly when visiting campus or when starting at your chosen school.

Letting Go: A Perennial Favorite of Parents

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“For parents, the freedom freshmen enjoy can be hard to accept. So can recognizing how little you can now appropriately and directly do to shape the daily round of your sons or daughters experiences or his or her life style choices, curricular, or career plansA young person is setting out on his or her own lives course. Don’t try to hold the course you set and have been sailing together for seventeen years. It is very hard to sail a ship with two pilots. Come along, by all means. But keep in mind that is a new voyage, someone else’s voyage. This way college can be the shared and happy embarkation it ought to be.”