Eric Karlan
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286 appearances
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first heard May 2019
last heard May 2019
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When you're a parent of a ninth grade student, the messages to your child are keep up your grades and let's have conversations about your extracurriculars and how you want to engage in the world.
You shouldn't be doing SAT and ACT prep in ninth grade.
Certainly college essays and applications, while you can keep that in the back of your head, that's not something to really worry about because you're not going to be writing those essays until probably the summer before 12th grade.
So there's an opportunity to ease into this process.
But I think when I talk to parents of ninth graders and they say,
we don't want to have this conversation now with you.
We want our child to just enjoy high school and not think about college.
I think that's missing the point of the best way to engage in the high school experience.
Because when you come from a place that every activity, if you think about that and your mentality is, well, I'm just doing these things for college.
then you're already doing them wrong because then you're focusing on the idea of being a better applicant and not using the high school experience as a way to make your child a better person.
And I think that's probably the biggest takeaway I would want families to have is it's okay to have these conversations because there's a lot of opportunities for growth throughout the whole high school experience culminating
with those college essays and applications when students ultimately are writing essays that need to be based in what do I need to know about you, the person who's evolved and matured and grown over the past three or four years.
And too often I see students and families look at those essay prompts with the mentality of what do colleges want to hear about me?
And
I think that subtle difference is so important for families to understand going into the process if they want to make the most out of the high school experience.
Absolutely.
So my company is called Ivy Experience.
Our website is myivyexperience.com.
And what you'll find on our website beyond an outline of the services that we offer families is also some great resources, blog posts to educate families throughout the process.
And of course, a
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