Posts by Andrew Belasco:
How to Become a Psychologist
Posted on: 03 Sep 2022
Welcome to another installment of College Transitions’ “How to Become a” series. Designed to help career-minded high school students think intelligently about their postsecondary journeys, these blogs will look at the financial, academic, and personal factors one should consider when exploring various professions. This article examines how to become a psychologist. We’ll look at the […]
Best Colleges for Jewish Students
Posted on: 02 Sep 2022
For many college-bound seniors, the prospect of leaving home for the first time is a source of both excitement and unrest. Flying the nest can induce more of the latter emotion for those who’ve grown up enjoying a tight-knit family and community with shared values, culture, and experiences. In an effort to maintain their faith […]
Colleges With the Best Alumni Networks
Posted on: 30 Aug 2022
Every May, swarms of freshly minted college graduates experience the smack of job search-related anxiety before the Gothic font on their diploma even has a chance to dry. Many proceed to blindly send out an entire Redwood’s worth of resumes, obsessively update their LinkedIn profile, and in true moments of desperation, actually start to wonder […]
What Should I Major in? – Advice for College Students
Posted on: 29 Aug 2022
Want to spend a couple of unproductive hours on the internet? Start by Googling “What should I major in?”. You’ll find countless articles with strong points of view. Some will sell the pragmatism of the hard sciences, engineering, or business. Others will tell you to pursue your dreams in drama, philosophy, or gender studies. Either […]
How to Answer the COVID-19 Question on the Common App
Posted on: 21 Aug 2022
With COVID-19 having been an omnipresent force in all of our lives, including the entire educational universe, it should come as little surprise that the virus even managed to infiltrate the college application itself two years ago. This will remain the case as the Class of 2023 applies to college this fall. As of August […]
Mental Health in College Students – From Application to Enrollment
Posted on: 16 Aug 2022
Sometimes it takes unspeakably tragic events to bring the existence of a widespread problem into the national conversation. In the past decade, highly-publicized suicides at Penn, Hamilton College, MIT, NYU, and Cornell, among others, have moved the discussion of mental health in college students right to the forefront of the higher education discourse. Thankfully, these […]
How to Transfer Colleges
Posted on: 14 Aug 2022
Calculating your chances of getting into an elite college as a transfer is as easy as handicapping a cat race. Unlike the regular admissions process, there is enough fluctuation in admission-related variables from year-to-year to make even the best prognosticator about as accurate as Miss Cleo (RIP). This makes figuring out how to transfer colleges […]
Why Do Colleges Send Me Mail?
Posted on: 13 Aug 2022
Why do colleges send me mail? We get this question often, and we can understand why. As a teenager, there is something undeniably exciting about being the recipient of an unsolicited brochure from a prestigious university. Or, even better yet, a seemingly personalized letter from the dean of admissions practically begging you to apply. Every […]
