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Heather Cavalli

Leaving It Better Than You Found It

October 12, 2010 | Heather Cavalli

There’s a woman in my neighborhood who goes for a nice long walk, maybe twice a day, and while she’s walking – sometimes with her dog, sometimes with her husband, listening to her music, she carries a plastic bag and she picks up the garbage along the roadside. Every day, her bag is more or [...]

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Honesty – The Best Policy

November 14, 2009 | Heather Cavalli

I’m on an e-list of college counselors from both sides of the desk across the country. Every day I get upwards of 100 e-mails offering ideas or asking questions to better serve their students. Often – I come across information that is enormously helpful to our students and sometimes I see questions that I feel [...]

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Having the Emotional Resilience to Press Forward

November 07, 2009 | Heather Cavalli

It’s been a watershed week for many seniors – some have put to bed the bulk of their application process with a November 1 deadline, while others found themselves with a Tuesday workout because they hadn’t yet gotten all of their teacher recommendation requests. Most seniors find themselves in the middle – realizing that the [...]

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Back from NACAC

October 01, 2009 | Heather Cavalli

Last week I was in Baltimore to attend the annual National Association of College Admissions Counselors meeting, otherwise known as NACAC. This meeting is held in a different city each year (last year was Seattle, next year is St. Louis) and is a fantastic opportunity for college counselors to connect with peers on both sides [...]

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Hyde-Woodstock Director of College Counseling Contributes to Local Paper

September 17, 2009 | Heather Cavalli, News

Heather Cavalli offers college advice to the Woodstock [CT] Villager.

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College Process 101 with Birmingham-Southern

September 12, 2009 | Heather Cavalli

Last summer I went on the “Sweet Tea” counselor tour hosted by the Southern Association of College Admissions Counseling (SACAC) and visited 11 colleges and universities in Georgia and Alabama in 5 days. As always, it is invigorating to walk onto a campus and get to feel it out. When I leave, I’ve inevitably got [...]

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The First Meeting

September 10, 2009 | Heather Cavalli

Last Thursday Dan Osar, Lynn Dawes, Karen McGovern and I met for the first time this year with the Senior Class of 2010. We handed out a nifty new Workbook as well as covered some of the basic themes, resources, means of communication and tips for the coming year. There was a buzz in the [...]

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