Posts by Dave Bergman:

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 […]

10 Best Colleges with Automatic/Guaranteed Admissions

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. […]

Top English-Speaking Bachelor’s Degree Programs in the EU

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, […]

Class of 2025 – Ivy League & Elite College Early Decision Acceptance Rates

Posted on: 25 Jan 2021

Welcome to College Transitions’ first look at early round acceptance rates at Ivy League and other highly-selective colleges and universities for the 2020-21 cycle. As of this posting in January of 2021, there are still many schools who have yet to report their early round results. As such, you will see a number of “TBD” […]

Out-of-State versus In-State Acceptance Rates at Top Public Universities

Posted on: 20 Jan 2021

It is unsurprising that the top public universities in the United States annually draw massive numbers of residents who seek a quality education close to home at a low (relative to the market) tuition figure. Yet, the magnetic pull of many of these schools has a radius that extends well beyond their home state. Each […]