The 3 C’s of College
Steve Jobs is famous for saying (and showing) that simple can be harder than complex: “You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.” That’s why I was so impressed when Dr. Jim Malone drew upon his decades of experience as a College & Career Counselor to distill the college admissions process down to its essence. According to Dr. Malone, the bewildering array of choices and challenges every family must contend with in the hunt for higher education can be broken down to the 3 C’s of College: 1. CREDENTIALS Colleges consider many factors in admissions, but will rarely discover an applicant’s interests and character if the numbers are not in order. Grades and test scores matter more than you might think. 2. CAREER What a campus looks like pales in importance compared to what is taught in its classrooms. Smart students learn about…