Posts by Dave Bergman:

The Invisible Lever: How Demonstrated Interest Quietly Shapes Admissions Decisions at 175 Selective Colleges

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 […]

Columbia College Online Review: Programs for Military and Adult Learners

Posted on: 13 May 2026

Columbia College has been recognized as a Purple Heart College, ranked the #4 Military Spouse Friendly college in the nation, named to the Silver Star Families of America 2023 list, and received the 2023 Best for Vets award. The Missouri-based institution was founded in 1851, granted Higher Learning Commission accreditation in 1918, was among the […]

New York Teacher Certification Online: NYSED Requirements and Alternative Pathways

Posted on: 13 May 2026

Most prospective New York teachers planning their certification path still believe they need to pass the edTPA, a performance assessment that dominated New York certification requirements for nearly a decade. The counterintuitive reality is that edTPA was eliminated as a New York State certification requirement on April 27, 2022, when the Board of Regents voted […]

California Teacher Certification Online: CTC Requirements and Alternative Pathways

Posted on: 13 May 2026

Prospective teachers researching California credentialing typically encounter a confusing landscape of acronyms (CTC, CBEST, CSET, RICA, LPA, CalTPA, edTPA, FAST, BSR), multiple credential types (Multiple Subject, Single Subject, Education Specialist, PK-3 Early Childhood, Designated Subjects), several distinct pathways (university preparation, intern, district intern, residency, private school experience, out-of-state reciprocity), and a regulatory framework that has […]

How Online Clinical Placements Actually Work for Nursing Students

Posted on: 12 May 2026

The most stressful part of an online nursing program is usually not the coursework. It is the question of how the clinical hours will actually get done. Prospective MSN and DNP students researching online programs see the marketing language about flexible online delivery and dedicated student support, then discover during enrollment or shortly after that […]

Texas LPC Online Programs: CACREP Accreditation and Texas Licensing Requirements

Posted on: 12 May 2026

The Texas LPC licensure framework has changed meaningfully since 2019, and prospective counselors enrolling in online programs in 2026 are working within rules that look different from the ones their mentors trained under. The provisional license was renamed from ‘LPC-Intern’ to ‘LPC-Associate’ in September 2019 to better reflect the professional nature of the credential. Continuing […]

Online BSN to MSN Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Programs: Primary and Acute Care

Posted on: 12 May 2026

The conventional advice for BSN-prepared nurses considering pediatric specialization is to pick the lowest-cost CCNE-accredited online MSN-PNP program and apply. The conventional advice is wrong. The decisions that matter most for pediatric nurse practitioner students are not about tuition rate or program length but about three structural variables that most prospective students do not evaluate […]

Online College Review: Texas Tech University Online (Worldwide eLearning)

Posted on: 12 May 2026

Texas Tech University’s online education division operates under two names depending on context. The student-facing brand is now Texas Tech Online, used across the university’s recruiting and admissions communications. The administrative entity behind the program remains Worldwide eLearning, the original name dating to the early 2000s when Texas Tech first scaled distance education. Both names […]