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“Everyone smokes pot.” I’ve heard this from dozens of students throughout Connecticut. Having grown up in the era where the athletes drank and the “burn outs” smoked, I was surprised when I first heard from one of my student-athlete clients that all of his buddies on the lacrosse team smoked. This was a decade ago. […]

“Whatever you do is magic.” I hear that statement from parents of our Connecticut students all the time. We are very proud of the team we have put together and the results that we have created. But I always note that we have a big edge: we are not the parents of your children. Part […]

This is a real world college decision facing a friend of a friend who lives in Fairfield County. The student was admitted to Northwestern and Penn State. The friend lives in Pennsylvania so this decision is similar to considering Northwestern versus UCONN. Economically, the parents could broadly be described as “upper middle” by Fairfield County […]

For students interested in nursing, UCONN is fantastic because it is not only a great nursing school but it might be the best value for students who hope to work in one of Connecticut’s many hospitals after college. My wife, a college professor, recently spoke with several nursing applicants who had the grades, the interest […]

$96,000!!!” Mr. Raythorn bellowed. “Thank you!”  His son Tyler, a senior at Fairfield Warde High School had just received early admission to his first choice college along with a $24,000 annual scholarship. We met Tyler prior to his junior year.  His parents had told him that he had to go to UCONN unless he received […]

We have received many inquiries from Fairfield County, Connecticut parents regarding when their children should take the SATs, ACTs, and, if needed, SAT IIs. Public schools in Connecticut offered the SAT to all students in March.   Public school students, having had a trial run at the SAT, should take the SAT again in either […]

I’ve noticed with many of my young adult clients that they are focused on not how they can contribute but rather what they can get from work.  This goes well beyond money.  To the question, “what do you want to do?”,  I most often hear different desires that serve the young adult but no one […]

I remember suffering through law school and realizing that I better learn to beat boredom or I would have a long three years.  Our students need the same resolve. “I’m so bored.” “Reading history is so boring.” “I fall asleep in chemistry class.” When we work with students across Connecticut, we hear different complaints related […]

Yes, there is some madness related to the college process.  But whenever we discuss college with our students, we provide the context for why college matters beyond the obvious career implications. My wife and I met in college. That’s not particularly uncommon. While likely a dated statistic, at some point, 25% of college graduates met their […]

When I practiced law in a large Washington, DC firm in the 1990s, I worked with a brilliant tax attorney who solved intricate tax issues for large international corporations. Yet, he hired someone to do his own taxes. “Too complicated,” he said, half-seriously because we both knew he could figure out how to do his […]