Programs and Events

Every Sunday night, Labor Day through Memorial Day. Free scholarship help for local seniors. Bring your laptop, bring your list, or bring nothing at all and we will build one together. We help you find outside scholarships you actually qualify for and get the applications submitted, not just bookmarked for later. Here is the math. […]

Everything on this page is free. Once a month I sit down for forty-five minutes and explain one piece of college admissions or financial aid the way it actually works, and then the recording goes here, where anyone can watch it whenever they want. I will also sprinkle in additional recordings along the way. I […]

There’s no denying it: Junior year is the most critical time for college planning. It’s when high schoolers start to focus on their future and make decisions that really count. And with most students just 10 months away from applying to college, it’s clear that the eleventh grade is crunch time.  The good news? Class […]

Your child spent months on that application. It will be read once, by one person, in roughly eight minutes. Teege Mettille spent two decades inside college admissions and enrollment management, up to the vice-president level — reading files, training readers, and building the models that decided who got an offer and how large it was. […]

Join us for a full-length, proctored ACT practice test designed to give students a real testing experience, without the pressure. This free event is open to high school students in the area who want to see where they stand and build a smarter prep plan. Students will receive a detailed score report highlighting strengths, areas […]

Free. One afternoon. Bring the whole family or come on your own. In three hours, I walk families all the way through the college process. It’s not a sales pitch. I spent twenty years inside admissions and enrollment offices, and this is the version of the process I wish every family got at the start. […]

Why would a college list a $70,000 price tag and then hand your student a $40,000 “scholarship”? In this first session of The Real Cost of College, Teege Mettille, a former college enrollment VP with more than 20 years in admissions, shows how colleges actually set their prices. His guest, Michael Hollis, CFP®, principal and […]

For admissions and enrollment leaders. Tuition discounting has turned into something else. More and more institutions now use web tracking, third-party data and predictive models to estimate what each family can pay and is willing to pay, then set an individual price to match. Other industries call this surveillance pricing. It has quietly become standard […]

Graduating without crushing debt is still realistic for most families. It takes a plan, and it helps to start early. In Part 3 of The Real Cost of College, Michael Hollis, CFP®, principal and financial planner at Tapestry FP, joins Teege Mettille to lay out a practical path. They’ll use the “four quarters” approach from […]

For admissions and enrollment leaders. It’s easy to say the whole system has to change. It’s harder to know what your institution can do on Monday morning. This session is for the enrollment leader who’s tired of the discounting arms race and wants a better way to compete. Teege Mettille, former enrollment VP and author […]