Custom College Visits Articles and News
Letting Go: A Perennial Favorite of Parents
“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.”
Planning College Visits – A Helpful Website
Parents of college-bound students overwhelmed with the process of planning multi-day, multi-campus college visits will be pleased to learn about Custom College Visits’ website. Chock full of information on planning college tours for your teen, the site also provides information on the company’s four core services:
Itinerary and logistics planning
Development of prospective college lists
Travel arrangements
And on-campus arrangements
Visiting College Campuses Help Students Answer Essay Prompts
Visiting College Campuses Help Students Answer Essay Prompts Writing a College Essay Helped by College Visit Remembrances As students begin the daunting task (for some) of writing tightly worded, critically important essay for each college’s prompts one can almost...
How to do College Visits by Private Jets
There has been much written lately about the 1% using private jets to visit three to four colleges in a day with their teen. No matter how you travel make sure you allow yourself enough time on each campus to fully experience the academics, lifestyle and the people.
Turning a College Tour Trip into a Vacation
Janice Caine interviewed in College Covered article
Check out this article in College Covered about turning a College Tour Trip into a vacation. Janice has some suggestions for planning your college tour trip.
We Can Help Plan Your Teen’s College Tour
No matter what stage of the college search process you’re in, we’ll help you manage your time and create itineraries so you can tour the college campuses that are of interest to you.
Parent Prep for College Visits
we all hope our teens will take the initiative to do the initial background research on different colleges and universities, and ultimately develop their own college list and their unique list of questions as they prepare for college visits. Yet, along with preparation for standardized tests, a daunting class schedule, and keeping up with extracurricular activities, it’s difficult to for them to take-on the added responsibility of planning college visit logistics.
Bonding with your Teen on College Road Trips
Time seems to pass faster and faster as our kids grow older—and the high school years seem to fly by. The frenzied life of a teenager offers little in the way of quality family time
Inside the Mysterious Process of College Admissions
The competition to land a spot at America’s top colleges is as fierce as ever. An inside look at the mysterious process of admissions, plus what students and parents should be doing to have the ultimate advantage.
