Posts by Andrew Belasco:

The Truth Behind Private Scholarships

Posted on: 19 Feb 2021

In the early 1970s, the U.S. auto industry received warnings from economic experts—if they continued on their current path, Japanese car companies would soon put them out of business.  Detroit’s Big 3 of GM, Ford, and Chrysler were told that if they remained attached to producing oversized, inefficient American-style models, they would soon be surpassed […]

Is There a Bias Against Asian College Applicants?

Posted on: 06 Feb 2021

As an Asian teenager, or parent of one, you’ve likely heard that Asian students are at a disadvantage in the admissions process at elite American colleges and universities. As a first order of business, let’s explore whether that this belief is, in fact, true. Between 2000 and 2015, the Asian population in America grew 72%, […]

How to Apply to a US College as an International Student

Posted on: 18 Jan 2021

Prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, 1,169,464 international students were studying at colleges and universities across the United States. While this number was already slightly down from previous years due, at least in part, to the political conditions in the United States, American institutions of higher education continued to draw massive levels of […]

How Higher SAT Scores Can Lower Your Tuition

Posted on: 16 Dec 2020

Widely considered one of the best documentaries of the 2000s, The King of Kong takes you deep within the surprisingly fascinating subculture of competitive retro video gaming. The film tells the story of two middle-aged men competing to obtain the world record in Donkey Kong, a rudimentary arcade game from the early 80s. They go […]

5 Reasons American Teens Should Consider College in the U.K.

Posted on: 14 Dec 2020

Even the brightest and most worldly college-bound American teens are not usually able to name more than a handful of universities in the United Kingdom. Sure, there’s Oxford, Cambridge, the London School of Economics and…well, the list dies off after that. Yet, there are close to 400 universities across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland […]

Coronavirus – Impact on International College Applicants

Posted on: 17 Apr 2020

As the entire world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, international high school seniors already accepted into an American college must wait to see what unfolds with respect to travel restrictions, potential delayed college openings in the fall, or a temporary shift to online instruction. Current juniors, likely homebound and dealing with a severely interrupted grade […]

COVID-19: More Colleges Go Test-Optional

Posted on: 01 Apr 2020

Recognizing that the coronavirus crisis has caused massive disruptions to the lives of current high school students (along with the rest of the world), many colleges have already come forward with admissions-related policy changes, particularly in the area of standardized testing requirements. All of the changes were made to benefit the high school Class of […]

College Admissions and Coronavirus: Advice for High School Sophomores

Posted on: 23 Mar 2020

For academically-inclined 10th grade students, the abrupt shuttering of their high school due to the coronavirus pandemic was not met with the type of youthful glee that follows a run-of-the-mill snow day announcement. Rather, this global emergency, which has already altered the lives of the majority of human beings on the planet, has ripped American […]