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Happiest College Breaks Start with These Boundaries

Happiest College Breaks Start with These Boundaries

Here's What We're Talking About This Week! You’re a loving parent—so of course you want to make your kid’s future college breaks as warm and memorable as possible. But will you be able to do that if your newly-flown offspring comes home snarly and inconsiderate? What...

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YOU Can Raise Creative, Confident, Innovative Kids

YOU Can Raise Creative, Confident, Innovative Kids

Here's What We're Talking About This Week! The last thing you want to do is raise a child who's just a dull drone, pouring out memorized facts as though facts have the power to save the world. You want to raise a child who will be valued in a future workplace for...

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5 Tips For Anyone Wondering about Commercial SAT or ACT Prep

5 Tips For Anyone Wondering about Commercial SAT or ACT Prep

Here's What We're Talking About This Week! Recently I got such a great question from a mom. I’m hoping many parents will benefit from hearing why I told her, “No, I don’t.” Jeannie, I was wondering if you do coaching for students looking to study for the SAT and ACT...

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Parenting a Late Bloomer? Here’s Help.

Parenting a Late Bloomer? Here’s Help.

Here's What We're Talking About This Week! Most of my time on this blog is spent helping parents get their teens and college students to careers they'll love as quickly as possible. This makes sense—because years spent dragging feet in underemployment or treading...

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Life-Changing, Entertaining Book For Students Ages 18–29

Life-Changing, Entertaining Book For Students Ages 18–29

Here's What We're Talking About This Week! The 20s are a critically important time of life. Young men and women who maximize their 20s tend to have far better lives than those who don't. I know this, because I've read the book The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties...

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What to Do and What to ASK On a College Visit

What to Do and What to ASK On a College Visit

Here's What We're Talking About This Week! Learn my 9 best strategies for putting together effective, stress-free college visits. You’ll find my most current info on this subject here. Let me be your guide to debt-free college—every week. (We can accomplish this no...

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What Should Students Eat Before Testing?

What Should Students Eat Before Testing?

Here's What We're Talking About This Week! If you're about to take the SAT or the ACT—or a big test for a class—or the LSAT, MCAT, GMAT, or GRE exam, and you just want fast advice on what to eat before testing, zoom straight to the numbered points in the article...

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Sending a Kid to College This Fall? Here’s Special Help

Sending a Kid to College This Fall? Here’s Special Help

Every July, I share a compilation of the best articles I've ever written for parents who are sending kids off to college in the next two months. Read just one of the articles I've written below, or read them all! Moving Into or Out of a Dorm? DormRoomMovers.com Saves...

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Fewer Screens * More Cheerful Chores * Happier Summer

Fewer Screens * More Cheerful Chores * Happier Summer

Here's What We're Talking About This Week! Many parents worry about kids' screen use during summer vacation. But what's a parent to do? It takes too much energy to constantly suggest: "Why don't you go outside for a while?" Parents already tired from work don't want...

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URGENT Info For Parents of 9th Graders

URGENT Info For Parents of 9th Graders

Here's What We're Talking About This Week! Today I'm helping financial professionals across the nation to spread the word. There's urgent financial aid info for parents of 9th graders. Yes I'm serious—9th graders. Parents, there are some things you need to know right...

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Why Your Kid Shouldn’t Take a Car to College

Why Your Kid Shouldn’t Take a Car to College

Here's What We're Talking About This Week! One of the best money-saving ideas I suggest for college students is, "Don't take a car to college." Most college campuses provide easy access to safe public transportation—and when a student really needs a car she can always...

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Teen Constantly Angry? It Could be “Launch Anxiety.”

Teen Constantly Angry? It Could be “Launch Anxiety.”

Here's What We're Talking About This Week! 15-year-old Luke had been in a dark, angry mood all day long, starting from the moment his mother wished him a cheerful, "Good morning!" and set hot scrambled eggs and a fresh hot caramel roll in front of him at the breakfast...

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Easiest Way to Create a Top College Application Essay

Easiest Way to Create a Top College Application Essay

Here's What We're Talking About This Week! Writing a top college application essay can be easy and fast when you follow a few clear steps. These steps are designed to help you get a top college application essay done confidently, and fast—with as little hassle as...

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That Local State University May NOT Be Your Bargain Option

That Local State University May NOT Be Your Bargain Option

Here's What We're Talking About This Week! Many parents have only one strategy for lowering college costs. Send the kid to the local state university. But is your local state university actually your bargain option — considering all the factors involved? The hidden...

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I’m Helping Financial Advisors Reach More Families

I’m Helping Financial Advisors Reach More Families

Most of my articles are for parents of kids ages 12–26, but this article is specifically for financial advisors.   When you're a financial advisor who follows me, there are 3 things I know about you:   1. One of your greatest goals is to help more families. ...

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Simple Check-In Rule Helps Teens Avoid Risk

Simple Check-In Rule Helps Teens Avoid Risk

Here's What We're Talking About This Week! A simple check-in rule can help teens avoid risk Our tweens and teens are going to have to make certain decisions and choices in the face of peer pressure. And generally, they will want to do what’s right. But they may not...

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What Does ROMANCE Have To Do With Financial Aid?

What Does ROMANCE Have To Do With Financial Aid?

Here's What We're Talking About This Week! By this time tomorrow, Valentine's Day will be over for another year. Tissue paper from wrapped gifts will litter the bedroom floor, chocolates will have been devoured, and pink and red greeting cards will have been set up in...

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One Call Can Increase Admissions Chances 40%

One Call Can Increase Admissions Chances 40%

Here's What We're Talking About This Week! Weeks or months after your daughter has finished up all her college applications, you may find yourself wondering, "Is there anything else she can do to increase admissions chances—well after her applications have been...

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A Virtuous Life, a Rich Life—In Just 30 Seconds

A Virtuous Life, a Rich Life—In Just 30 Seconds

As for me—I'd love to live a virtuous life. A rich life. I got great help from this diagram—in just about 30 seconds! I love it. A virtuous life is one of balance between deficiency and excess. Interesting. This is thought-provoking—and worthy of putting up on the...

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How to Use the Full Focus Planner

How to Use the Full Focus Planner

Here's What We're Talking About This Week! I've got good reason for suggesting a paper planner for college students. "Paper?" you're thinking. "Come on, that is so low tech! What next—are you gonna tell us to chisel our appointments and task lists into stone tablets?"...

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The Sweaty Truth About Sports Scholarships

The Sweaty Truth About Sports Scholarships

Here's What We're Talking About This Week! Parents of athletes fork out thousands to cover sports expenses over the years. Many wonder, “Is all this time, effort, and money going to pay off big when this kid gets to college?” Here, the sweaty truth about sports...

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College Financing: Should Kids Just Do It Themselves?

College Financing: Should Kids Just Do It Themselves?

Here's What We're Talking About This Week! Some parents try to save a little time, energy, and money by putting their kids in charge of planning out their own college financing. “She's nearly an adult—let her figure it out herself and live with the consequences,” some...

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Get More College Scholarships—Starting in 8th Grade!

You'd love to get the kids you care about through college debt-free. It's easier than you think—even if you can't save a penny, even if you make too much to get any government financial aid. (Or you think you do.) Register instantly below—for free, courtesy of...

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Your Kid Might Go To Med School or Grad School One Day?

Your Kid Might Go To Med School or Grad School One Day?

Here's What We're Talking About This Week! Your kid might go to med school or grad school one day? This week we're relieving stress about applying—by featuring an interview I did on the Greek University podcast. This interview covers a lot of valuable ground (so it’s...

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In College? Do This and Slash Your Student Loan Debt

In College? Do This and Slash Your Student Loan Debt

This article has been updated. You’ll find my most current info on this subject here. See you over there! —Jeannie Burlowski Let me be your guide to debt-free college—every week. (We can accomplish this no matter your current income level, even if your kid never gets...

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Got a Big Problem with Standardized Testing?

Got a Big Problem with Standardized Testing?

Here's What We're Talking About This Week! What do you do if your kid is having serious problems succeeding on standardized tests like the SAT and the ACT? Having your son or daughter apply to one or more test-optional schools might be a really good answer. You’ll...

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Got Kids Ages 12–26? You Need This!

Got Kids Ages 12–26? You Need This!

Free Webinar You'd love to get the kids you care about through college debt-free. It's easier than you think—even if you can't save a penny, even if you make too much to get any government financial aid. (Or you think you do.) Register instantly below—for free,...

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It’s catch-up week! Which of these haven’t you seen?

I'm spending Memorial Day having as much fun as I possibly can—and I hope you are too. Whenever I take time off like this, I like to point you to some of my most helpful recent articles that you may have missed. This gives you a chance to catch up—right on a week when...

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These Things Require Zero Talent! And They’re Free!

These things require zero talent! And they're free! (And they can skyrocket your success—no matter where you go to college.) For clear, step-by-step help getting your kids into and through college programs that develop talent—and doing it all debt-free without...

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College and Tech School BOTH? Genius!

Today I'm featuring one of my favorite articles I've ever written. It explains how your kid could attend technical school and college both—and graduate debt-free (with wildly enhanced practical job skills) at the age of 22. Genius. Best time to share this article with...

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Increase Admissions Chances 40%—With One Phone Call

Increase Admissions Chances 40%—With One Phone Call

How fantastic would it be to increase college admissions chances 40%—in one day? With just one phone call? Read this article I've written titled One Call Can Increase Admissions Chances 40%. It's liberating and exciting to think that just one phone call could both...

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Hi, I’m Jeannie Burlowski.

I am a full-time academic strategist, conference speaker, and author of the book “LAUNCH: How to Get Your Kids Through College Debt-Free and Into Jobs They Love Afterward.

My writing and speaking provide parents a clear, step-by-step checklist so they can set their kids up to succeed brilliantly in college, graduate debt-free, and move directly into careers they excel at and love.

For more than 20 years, I’ve helped students apply to highly competitive law, medical, business, and grad schools. I still do that from my website GetIntoMedSchool.com.

I am married, and my husband and I have a son and a daughter. We live in Minneapolis.

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