by Dana Ponsky | Jun 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
The school year has come to an end…finally. I speak to students and families regularly about how challenging the past few months have been, but now many are concerned about what the summer months are going to look like for their student. Most students...
by Dana Ponsky | May 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Year after year, students and families take on the college application process with a balance of excitement and trepidation. The excitement is usually around the opportunity to explore what’s next after high school, thinking about the future, preparing for change, and...
by Dana Ponsky | Apr 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
As I spend hours a day reading news reports, emails from college admissions offices, and managing my overwhelmed professional association lists, I find that the same words keeping popping up: Unprecedented, unknown, uncertainty, test-optional, waitlists, gap year, and...
by Dana Ponsky | Feb 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
For students and parents in 11th grade, the time has come to begin the early stages of the college application process. While there are no applications being filled out right now, there is plenty of preparation that happens in the months leading up to determining what...
by Dana Ponsky | Aug 12, 2019 | Blog, Uncategorized
As the month of August commences, I find myself thinking how quickly the summer has gone and in a few short weeks we are all back to school. As both a high school college counselor and independent college counselor for the past ten years, admittedly, I still find...
