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		<title>A College Consultant&#8217;s &#8220;Words to Live By&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Parents of College-Bound Teens: The Power of &#8220;No&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Hintz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my son hit the terrible two&#8217;s,  I received a rather unwelcome crash course in boundary-setting, from none other than my mother-in-law, who casually observed, &#8220;Love is spelled N-O.&#8221; As a know-it-all Mozart-in-utero Baby Boomer, I did not exactly relish receiving parenting advice from the Greatest Generation, but her simple words resonated. I never forgot them. As a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=positionu4college.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6305802&amp;post=8619&amp;subd=positionu4college&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>College Applications: Don&#8217;t Follow the Lemmings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Hintz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When any market, such as real estate, the stock market, or the college market, becomes so competitive that it is difficult to gain a foothold, the wise &#8220;investor&#8221; is best served by finding the less traveled path. Success means not following the lemmings; rather, today&#8217;s college applicant needs to become an alpha consumer, a trendsetter who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=positionu4college.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6305802&amp;post=8521&amp;subd=positionu4college&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>College, Passion, Purpose: Readiness is All</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Hintz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your teenager has been given all the opportunities you never had growing up. You child has been offered material blessings, an affluent suburban community with a competitive high school, as well as parents willing and able to support his or her expensive extracurricular hobbies and finance spectacular enrichment summer programs and travel. Of course, you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=positionu4college.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6305802&amp;post=8469&amp;subd=positionu4college&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a college consultant, I spend the holidays helping applicants digest admissions feedback. If your teen is struggling with disappointing news, you can find consolation in my posts: Colleges Acceptances and Denials: The Best and the Worst Things That Could Happen, The College Process: Dealing with Rejection, December 15 College News: Deferral or Denial, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=positionu4college.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6305802&amp;post=8386&amp;subd=positionu4college&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parents of High School Juniors: Navigating the Road to College</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kris Hintz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parents of high school juniors, you are probably just beginning to wrap your minds around the landscape of the college process. As a college consultant and fellow parent, I am here to help. This blog has many helpful posts about junior year and what is ahead, such as: What Is Important to Colleges? Top Ten [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=positionu4college.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6305802&amp;post=8367&amp;subd=positionu4college&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>College Acceptances and Denials: The Best and Worst Things That Could Happen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Hintz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There seems to be so much at stake when college admissions decisions come out, whether it is December or April. It is especially difficult in December, since early notification applicants usually only have one, or at best a few, options on the table, resulting in an &#8220;all-or-nothing&#8221; feeling. If the news is disappointing, there is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=positionu4college.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6305802&amp;post=8324&amp;subd=positionu4college&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Parents Can Launch Their Young Adult Children by Being, Not Doing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Hintz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a college consultant, I am frequently struck by the fact that many parents who clearly love and want the best for their teenage or young adult children ironically seem to create rebellious, undesirable behavior in their kids or even drive their kids away. I see this painful paradox in parents&#8217; demands for academic achievement; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=positionu4college.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6305802&amp;post=8286&amp;subd=positionu4college&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Parents Can Help&#8211;Or Not&#8211;with College Essays</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Hintz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, I sat in a New Jersey auditorium listening to a Vanderbilt University roadshow information session. The young admissions representative and Vandy alum was also a graduate of Delbarton, a premier local private high school, and was therefore entrusted with New Jersey prospective applicants. While offering advice on essays, he left us with these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=positionu4college.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6305802&amp;post=8207&amp;subd=positionu4college&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>College Freshmen Home for Thanksgiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kris Hintz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am featuring this classic post I wrote in 2009 about Thanksgiving this week. Whether you are the parent of a high school senior, a college freshman, a college senior, or any kid in between, Thanksgiving is an important marker and rite of passage. Approach it with thoughtfulness&#8212;and gratitude. It&#8217;s yet another rite of passage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=positionu4college.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6305802&amp;post=1936&amp;subd=positionu4college&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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