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5 Common Mistakes to Avoid in Your Personalized College Search What Most Families Get Wrong About the ‘Personalized College Search’ We live in an age of instant answers and college searches are no exception. Everywhere you turn, there’s a new tool claiming to give you the “perfect college list”.

Step 1: Why Every College List Should Start With the Student (Not the Schools) Most families build their college list backwards. They start with rankings, or a list of “good schools”, or places their cousin applied last year, then they try to squeeze their student into that mold.

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❌ Most College Lists Are Garbage. Here’s the One That Actually Works. You’re not lost.

10 Colleges for Students Who Don’t Want to Go to College (But Still Want Options That Open Doors) Some students just aren’t excited about college. Not because they’re lazy, and not because they’re lost, but because they’re realists and the traditional 4-year college path doesn’t feel like it fits.

What Colleges Reinstating the SAT/ACT Really Means for Your Student’s College List The test-optional era is ending. Quietly, but decisively.

Basically, all dads 🤣

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/most-college-lists-designed-fail-ivan-jimenez--car5e

Most College Lists Are Designed to Fail Most college lists fail because they’re built to protect adults, not help students. They’re rushed, risk-averse, and based on outdated assumptions (leaving students with a false sense of direction and a pile of rejections).

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-much-can-you-afford-give-away-ivan-jimenez--wlgle

How Much Can You Afford to Give Away? Most people ask "How little can I get away with?" How little value. How little time.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-emotionally-ready-college-sarah-jimenez-a7r7e

Are You Emotionally Ready for College? We talk a lot about GPAs, SATs, essays, and extracurriculars but one area I see families overlook (sometimes until it's too late) is emotional readiness..