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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Posted on: 10 Feb 2021
For many teens, the college admissions process has become one of the most stress-inducing experiences of their young lives. For some, the rewards are worth the sacrifice of applying to a dozen of schools, composing countless supplemental essays, and retaking the SATs over and over, hoping that their Superscore will put them over the top. […]
Posted on: 29 Jan 2021
If you are an American student interested in pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Europe, one of the natural first questions might be: What language will my professors speak? Of course, if you are considering studying in the U.K. & Ireland where 97% of the population speaks English, you have nothing to worry about. As such, […]