The question is an interesting one, because it doesn’t ask who we are supposed to be comparing homeschool students to. I will assume that you are comparing homeschoolers to traditional, public schooled students. I will also assume that by “top universities” you…
read morePlease, stop thinking you have children’s best interests in mind if you don’t care about them having a mind of their own. The focus in parenting and schooling is too often (usually) to shape and manipulate children so that they turn out…
read moreAntonio Buehler, founder of Abrome was invited to the Laura Bush Community Library to speak about how to gain admission into elite colleges and universities. This video is shared courtesy of the library. </iframe>”> Getting into elite colleges such as Harvard or…
read moreToday, the Common Application goes live, and with it the college admissions season is once again here. And today, hundreds of thousands of rising high school seniors begin transitioning from the thrill of imagining themselves in a variety of university settings as…
read moreAntonio Buehler, founder of Abrome was invited to the Laura Bush Community Library to speak about how to gain admission into elite colleges and universities. This video is shared courtesy of the library. </iframe>”>https://youtu.be/XHXaHUIT5zQ
read moreThis week at Abrome: everyone back at Abrome, attendance optional, Finding Dory, admissions update, and public presentations. </iframe>”>https://youtu.be/1QVAvI9wbts
read moreThis week at Abrome: 210-day calendar, donating our time to the community, offerings. </iframe>”>https://youtu.be/kYor7__CnvM
read moreThis past fall, I bought copies of Carol Dweck’s Mindset for two of our new Learners.[1] Each of them, who spent most of their school-aged years in traditional schooling environments, demonstrated proclivities for what Dweck calls a “fixed mindset.” This mindset was…
read moreThe Stanford University Office of Undergraduate Admission just released their application numbers for the Class of 2020, and for the fourth consecutive year they earn the enviable but not necessarily laudable distinction of being the most selective college in America. Also, in…
read moreA year and a half after I graduated from Stanford, I started a search fund to look for a company to buy. Although I was industry agnostic, I kept finding myself focusing on companies that touched the academic space for children, such…
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