Posted on: 10 Feb 2026
Let me start off by trying my best not to bury the lede—AP Macroeconomics is tough. In fact, it’s one of the hardest AP courses—just 51.8% of students who take the AP Macro exam receive a 3 or above. In other words: only half of students pass the thing. That’s a bit of a bummer, […]
Posted on: 11 Aug 2025
The 2025-26 college football season is set to begin on August 23, when Iowa State and Kansas State square off at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland. Then on August 30, the top two teams in the country according to the recently-released Coaches Poll—Texas and Ohio State—go head to head, as do No. 5 Notre Dame […]
Posted on: 07 Aug 2025
The NCAA rolled out the College Football Playoff back in 2014. For the first decade of its existence, the College Football Playoff was relatively small in scope: just four teams qualified, so the whole thing was all said and done after two semifinal games and a national championship. But in 2023, the College Football Board […]
Posted on: 13 Jun 2025
The NCAA established the men’s Division I ice hockey tournament in 1948. Since then, a handful of schools have dominated the sport, and the list of the best hockey colleges isn’t exactly shocking. For example: ice hockey is the official state sport of Minnesota, and for good reason—Minnesota has produced more men’s NCAA Division I […]
Posted on: 12 May 2025
There are approximately 1,800 women’s collegiate volleyball programs and 239 men’s collegiate volleyball programs in the United States. And since volleyball became an NCAA championship sport—the men’s Division I championship was established in 1970, the women’s in 1981—a relatively small number of schools have dominated the sport. On the men’s side, the best volleyball colleges […]
Posted on: 24 Apr 2025
Before we get into the Best Swimming Colleges, it is worth saying that the United States is a swimming powerhouse. At last year’s Summer Olympics in Paris, the American men’s and women’s swimming squads combined to win more gold medals than any other team. And that’s been the trend: the US had led the medal […]
Posted on: 17 Apr 2025
Most of the best lacrosse colleges can be found on the East Coast, which makes sense when you consider the history of the sport. The modern game of lacrosse has its roots in centuries-old games played by Native American tribes, and it was most prevalent around the Great Lakes and in the mid-Atlantic region of […]
Posted on: 16 Apr 2025
When I was in high school, resources for extra homework help weren’t exactly abundant. If you were struggling with a Shakespeare sonnet, you could always run to the bookstore and pick up a CliffNotes guide. SparkNotes was also gaining in popularity. But these early homework help resources had limited catalogs and were focused primarily on […]