Posts by Dave Bergman:

Acceptance Rates at Ivy League & Elite Colleges – Class of 2025

Posted on: 09 Apr 2021

We previously covered the early decision/early action acceptance rates for the Class of 2025. As regular decision acceptances and rejections have officially been received, College Transitions can now provide you the first look at the overall acceptance rates (regular decision plus early decision) for some of the most selective universities in the country during the […]

How to Appeal a Financial Aid Award

Posted on: 29 Mar 2021

For students lacking inexhaustible higher education funds, finding out whether or not you are accepted into your dream college is only one battle in a broader, fast-unfolding conflict. Upon learning of one’s acceptance (congrats!), the locus quickly shifts to the other envelope/email before you—the financial aid letter. A lower-than-expected offer can be a genuine dream-crusher, […]

Dave Bergman speaks with PBS/WHYY

Posted on: 14 Mar 2021

College Transitions’ Director of Content Dave Bergman spoke with PBS/WHYY regarding the mental health impact of the pandemic on college and high school students over the course of 2021 and 2022. You can read the article and listen to the full radio interview here.

How to Evaluate a College’s Graduation Rate

Posted on: 09 Mar 2021

Living in a society that is hyper-focused on selective college admissions, the moment a student receives an acceptance letter from their dream school can feel the victorious end of a journey, the moment when the film credits roll and a triumphant score begins to play. Of course, there’s also that small matter of the next […]

Highly-Selective College Admissions 101

Posted on: 03 Mar 2021

It is quite normal for parents and teens to begin their college search without a great deal of a hard data. A top student might be “Blank College” material while a less accomplished teen may be better suited for “Blank State.” These intuitions may be based on the admissions landscape of a past generation, a […]

2021-2022 Common App Essay Prompts

Posted on: 26 Feb 2021

The decision-makers at the Common Application have officially announced that the Common App essay prompt menu for the upcoming 2021-22 admissions cycle will be slightly different than in 2020-21. In the opinion of the College Transitions staff, the choice for nothing more than minor tinkering was a wise one. A quick look at the data […]

UVA Press Release – Colleges Worth Your Money

Posted on: 23 Feb 2021

The University of Virginia issued a press release to celebrate their inclusion in College Transitions’ new guidebook Colleges Worth Your Money as well as their being named Money Magazine‘s second-best-value public university. We are pleased to continue to recommend UVA as being one of the nation’s top higher education bargains in our forthcoming 2022 edition […]

CWYM and TECA Named to Best College Books List

Posted on: 15 Feb 2021

We were honored to have both of our books—The Enlightened College Applicant and Colleges Worth Your Money included on Road2College’s list of The Best College Guidebooks. The Road2College staff cited Colleges Worth Your Money as helping students to think “ten steps ahead” in the admissions process and praised The Enlightened College Applicant as successfully combining “humor […]