Posted on: 20 May 2026
Residents of California are blessed with an embarrassment of public university riches. In addition to the well-regarded University of California (UC) schools, there are an additional 22 universities housed within the California State University system. (Cal Maritime, formerly the smallest CSU campus, completed its integration with Cal Poly San Luis Obispo on July 1, 2025, […]
Posted on: 20 May 2026
Planning to take AP exams this May? You’re likely wondering when you’ll find out your results. Scoring a 3, 4, or 5 can not only pay dividends in the college admission process but also earn you a number of college credits, allowing you to reduce your tuition bill down the line. That leads us to […]
Posted on: 19 May 2026
In fall 2025, the University of South Florida launched the Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing, the first college of its kind in Florida and one of the first in the United States dedicated to bringing AI, cybersecurity, and computing together under a single academic unit. The launch, supported by a $40 million […]
Posted on: 19 May 2026
Consider a patient care technician at a DaVita dialysis center in Phoenix. She started at the company five years ago without a college degree, working twelve-hour shifts and learning kidney care from the technicians and nurses around her. Today she is a registered nurse at the same clinic, finishing prerequisites for a Bachelor of Science […]
Posted on: 19 May 2026
Brilliant students who are serious contenders for a spot at an Ivy League or Ivy-equivalent school often take 10+ AP classes. Whether the subject comes easily to them or requires extensive studying is of little relevance. These high-achievers simply aren’t backing down from anything. If you are a more typical college-bound student, you may want […]
Posted on: 17 May 2026
In 1950, the University of Pennsylvania charged $600 per year to attend, roughly $7,800 in 2026 money. By 1960, most private institutions charged an annual fee of $1,500-$2,000, which equates to $15,500-$20,500 today. In the current marketplace? A $50,000 annual tuition is considered “reasonable”; the aforementioned Penn’s annual cost of attendance is now over $96,000. […]
Posted on: 15 May 2026
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 35 percent employment growth for nurse practitioners between 2024 and 2034, with median annual wages reaching $132,050 in May 2024 for the combined APRN category (nurse anesthetists, nurse midwives, and nurse practitioners). U.S. News & World Report ranked nurse practitioner as the #1 job in America for both […]
Posted on: 14 May 2026
It’s one of the few admissions variables you can actually control. Most families don’t know which schools are watching. Consider the awkward position a Tulane admissions reader sits in every January. Tulane accepts about 14 percent of applicants, lower than the admit rate at Cornell or Notre Dame. But Tulane’s yield (the share of admitted […]