Best Colleges for Finance and Wall Street
Aspiring Wall Street wolves, daydreaming about donning fancy suits and raking in massive annual bonuses from the confines of their high school guidance counselor’s office have many big decisions ahead of them. Among the most pressing issues are where to attend college and what major…
Best Colleges for Pre-Med Students
Over the past decade, our team at College Transitions has helped to guide hundreds of aspiring physicians toward undergraduate colleges and universities that will serve as ideal springboards into medical school. How (and in some cases where) you spend those four years will play a…
Higher Test Scores Equal Lower Tuition
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,…
What is a Financial Safety School?
The act of drawing up college contingency plans is entirely antithetical to the passion-filled optimism pulsating through the average teenage brain. Counting on your son or daughter to put careful thought into their post-secondary backup plan is like expecting Romeo & Juliet to respond to…
What is a Superscore?
It is human nature to selectively showcase only our best moments while simultaneously sweeping those that are less flattering out of sight. When serious high school athletes put together highlight reels for recruitment videos, they cherry-pick touchdowns, dunks, or homeruns; not fumbles, air balls, and…
The Worst College Essay Topics
We would never unequivocally tell an applicant that any proposed college essay topic is off limits. Great writers can take the most mundane, banal, and generic topic and transform it into a captivating composition. However, in our experience reading thousands of college essays, we are…
Top Myths About College Admissions – Part 1
As professionals in the field of college admissions, our team at College Transitions actively follows developments and trends in higher education on a daily basis. In keeping our ear to the ground, we are also privy to a good deal of misinformation and misassumptions—errors in…
Do colleges verify information in applications?
In the adult world, it is fairly common, almost expected, for one’s resume to exaggerate their past achievements. In fact, a recent study found that 85% of people lie on their resumes in one form or another. A babysitting gig can easily become experience “supervising…
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