Posted on: 14 Jun 2021
The act of formulating a clear and decisive plan is as valorized in the college admissions process as it is in most other realms of American life. Highly-selective colleges do generally give an edge to students who profess to have figured out their whole professional life by the tender of age of eighteen and possess […]
Posted on: 07 Jun 2021
Want to know why the growth of international student applications to U.S. schools declined for a fourth straight year during the 2019-20 admissions cycle? To quote South Park—Blame Canada…at least in small part. Of course, declining foreign applications are primarily attributable to international fears at the dawn of the Trump era and, even more so, […]
Posted on: 05 Mar 2021
While researching prospective colleges, students and parents encounter a dizzying whirlwind of data and information. It can be so overwhelming that sometimes very important statistics, particularly those that may feel somewhat abstract, end up largely ignored. For whatever reason, stats related to faculty accessibility often find themselves in this category. One school’s 22:1 student-to-faculty ratio […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]