Posted on: 04 Aug 2025
Frisco has spent the last decade trading its identity as a quiet Dallas suburb for a much bigger title. Locals now call it Sports City USA. Specifically, the Dallas Cowboys headquarter their entire football operation at The Star. Additionally, the PGA of America moved its national offices here in 2022. FC Dallas, the Dallas Stars, […]
Posted on: 04 Aug 2025
Families across Santa Barbara County know that selective college admissions keep getting harder every year. High-achieving students at schools like Dos Pueblos, San Marcos, Santa Barbara High, and Carpinteria often arrive with strong transcripts and a long list of AP courses. However, many of those same students struggle to explain what actually separates them from […]
Posted on: 04 Aug 2025
Amherst College is one of the most selective and esteemed liberal arts colleges in the country, in the same league as the likes of Williams, Swarthmore, and Pomona. While lesser-known to the general public than the Ivy League universities, these schools (including Amherst) sport single-digit acceptance rates and present an admissions challenge even for students […]
Posted on: 04 Aug 2025
Twenty years ago, the University of Wisconsin-Madison was hardly a hot-ticket destination for stellar students from all over the country/world. While always a popular and sound choice for locals, only 17,727 students applied for a chance to become Badgers back in 2001. Of those, 12,791 (72%) were ultimately accepted. That year, the 75th percentile standardized […]
Posted on: 04 Aug 2025
Outside of “Encourage your ultra-wealthy parents to donate a building” or “Be a heavily-recruited athlete who also happens to have an SAT score in the 99th percentile,” there is no meaningful nugget of wisdom that is going to unlock the gates to Harvard Yard. Successful Harvard applicants possess a sparkling transcript, perfect or near-perfect standardized […]
Posted on: 01 Aug 2025
Over 15,000 undergraduate students proudly don the distinctive orange gear associated with Syracuse University, a mid-sized school in Upstate New York. The ‘Cuse received a record 42,000+ applications for a spot in the 2023-24 freshman class. On a selectivity scale, Syracuse varies greatly from year to year, sporting acceptance rates as low as the low-40s […]
Posted on: 01 Aug 2025
Fordham University differs from many in its peer group of selective, academically strong schools located in the Northeast who have seen their acceptance rates plummet over the last decade. In fact, Fordham, a Jesuit Catholic university on a beautiful 85-acre campus in the Bronx, has seen their acceptance rate spike as high as 58% in […]
Posted on: 31 Jul 2025
Mesa sits in an unusual spot in the national admissions landscape. It is the third-largest city in Arizona, with a population approaching 520,000. Yet it rarely appears in the college counseling conversation the way smaller, better-branded cities do. Families here default comfortably toward Arizona State University in nearby Tempe. That gravitational pull is understandable. ASU […]