Josh Stephens
College Counseling
Annual Newsletters
For the past few years, I’ve sent one newsletter a year, usually in the spring.
Each year, I report on my students’ admissions results and summarize my observations of the previous application season. I recount trends I’ve observed based on work with my students, discussions I’ve had with colleagues, webinars and conferences I’ve attended, and reports I’ve read in the press. I try to get past conventional wisdom and cliches.
Collectively, I hope they amount to a good portrait of the college admissions landscape.
Mental Health (and Therapeutic Exploring)
Artificial Intelligence and Text Generation
Return of Standardized Testing
Affirmative Action & Diversity
The Nightmare of 'Dream Schools'
Student Wellness
Some Blogs--and a Book!
(Post?-) Pandemic Reflections
Lament: Demise of Take-Home Essays
Rhetorical Quirks of 2021
Resilience & Opportunity
Blogging the Madness
Pandemic Predictions
Pandemic Reality
Test-Optional Applicants
Introducing The Urban Mystique
A Blog: “Personal Growth”
Reading, Hobbies & Self-Directed Learning
ZoomSchool and Real School
Quarantine and The Gift of Time
Admissions Trends: Our Technological Moment