Dr. Thom
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Dr. Thom
- Jan 24, 2020
- 3 min
The College Search as A Teachable Moment
Put all the admissions marketing aside and focus on teaching your child the messy art of adult decision making through the college search.
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Dr. Thom
- Jan 17, 2020
- 3 min
No You Will Not Just Know The Right College
The advice to prospective students sounds like this: "visit colleges, when you find the right one, you will know." We can do better.
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Dr. Thom
- Jan 10, 2020
- 4 min
Major Stress: How to help your child pick a major without the anxiety
Almost half of high school juniors indicate that picking a college major is a significant source of stress and anxiety. We can do better.
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Dr. Thom
- Jan 3, 2020
- 3 min
New Year's Resolutions for a Healthy College Search
Is a college search coming up for your family in 2020? Together let's make some new year's resolutions for a healthy college search.
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Dr. Thom
- Dec 27, 2019
- 4 min
National Merit: What You Need to Know and Why You Shouldn't Care
Junior PSAT results have been fanning out across the country, and with it, comes questions of National Merit status. Here's what you need.
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Dr. Thom
- Dec 20, 2019
- 3 min
Helping Your Student Come Down From Finals Week
Finals week can be crazy stressful. Plan your own de-stress fest to kick off the holiday break.
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Dr. Thom
- Dec 13, 2019
- 3 min
Application Deadline Q&A
Do you know where the term deadline came from? The best we can tell, it comes from an infamous Civil War era Confederate prison in...
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Dr. Thom
- Dec 6, 2019
- 3 min
ACT Single Section Retake Options: Here's what you should know
Starting in September 2020, students will have the option of retaking one or more section(s) of the ACT. As you may know, the ACT is...
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Dr. Thom
- Sep 20, 2019
- 1 min
Three Fears About Applying To College and How To Address Them
Dr. Thom collaborated with Challenge Success and recently wrote an article about fears students experience when applying to college and...
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Dr. Thom
- Sep 17, 2019
- 2 min
The Most Unexpected X Factor in the Best College Admissions Essays
The X factor in all of the best college application essays is at once incredibly simple, and increasingly rare.
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Dr. Thom
- Sep 11, 2019
- 3 min
Accommodations for students - HOW
We’re excited to present to parents and families on Thursday night with Autism Tennessee. The event has been promoted on social media. I...
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Dr. Thom
- Aug 18, 2019
- 2 min
Choosing Your Own Path Versus The One Laid Out For You
The designed path people are supposed to walk goes one way, but yet the people go their own way. It's not that the people are lazy or...
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Dr. Thom
- Aug 12, 2019
- 4 min
Three Steps To Get Unstuck in Your College Search
The college search can be overwhelming, we get it. These 3 steps can help you get moving.
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Dr. Thom
- Aug 8, 2019
- 1 min
What is Missing From Most College Essays
The simplest, most impactful and yet most often missing factor in your college admissions, and it all starts with a pen.
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Dr. Thom
- Aug 8, 2019
- 2 min
Accepting being Denied: how resilience really works
Our culture tells us we can have anything we want, if we just want it bad enough. But what happens when you don't get what you want?
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