College Transitions highlighted in The Washington Post

Washington, DC— College Transitions was recently highlighted in The Washington Post after George Washington University joined a number of institutions who have since adopted test-optional admission policies. College Transitions CEO, Andrew Belasco, discusses how these policies shape campus diversity and influence a college’s access mission. Click here to read the...

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Revising the “Toy Story Method” of Essay Writing

A few weeks ago, I wandered across a blog post titled “How Understanding ‘Toy Story’ Can Get You into College.” As a lifelong Pixar fan, I was intrigued by the title and eager to see how the author advised college-bound writers to apply a well-known plot structure to writing...

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Colleges that are probably better than Harvard

Now that you understand what research has to say about the contextual and often-limited benefits of attending a highly-selective school, you may have opened your mind to a few less competitive yet wonderful institutions. However, we’ve worked with enough cream of the crop high school superstars to know that...

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