Posts by Michael Trivette:

How to Become a Lawyer: College-to-Career Advice

Posted on: 30 Jul 2022

How to Become a Lawyer is the latest installment of College Transitions’ College-to-Career series. Designed to help career-minded high school students think intelligently about their postsecondary journeys, these blogs will look at the financial, academic, and personal factors one should consider when exploring various professions. This article thoroughly examines the topic of how to become […]

How to Become a Teacher: College-to-Career Advice

Posted on: 29 Jul 2022

Welcome to the latest installment of College Transitions’ College-to-Career series. Designed to help career-minded high school students think intelligently about their postsecondary journeys, these blogs will look at the financial, academic, and personal factors one should consider when exploring various professions. This article thoroughly examines the topic of how to become a teacher. We’ll begin […]

How to Start Your Own Extracurricular Club

Posted on: 17 Jun 2022

Seeking to get more involved with your high school, you peruse the list of clubs posted on your high school’s website. From there, you attend meetings of various clubs, get seriously involved in one or two, but, as time goes by, you are left with a yearning for something more, something that doesn’t presently exist […]

What Percent of College Students Graduate in 4 Years?

Posted on: 14 Feb 2022

The “four-year degree” is quickly becoming a misnomer.  As of 2020-21, only 41% of American college students graduate from college in four years. Further, the majority of colleges and universities in the United States now possess four-year graduation rates below 60%, including many competitive, flagship institutions like Texas A&M University (59%), University of Oregon (57%), […]

How to Support Your Teen in the College Admissions Process

Posted on: 21 Dec 2020

Back in 2012, a student at the University of Cincinnati won a restraining order against her parents for “stalking” her in college. They had installed spyware on their daughter’s phone and computer, regularly made unannounced visits by traveling over 600 miles to campus, and even met with her dean to accuse their daughter of promiscuity, […]

2018 College Admission Rates: Is Getting Into College Harder Than Ever Before?

Posted on: 17 May 2018

The results from the 2017-18 admissions cycle are still rolling in, but the data available thus far sends one very clear message—acceptance rates at highly-selective colleges are dwindling. Ivy League results The numbers at Ivy League schools were already so minuscule that this year’s decreases are only a matter of decimals: Princeton fell from 6.1% […]

Best Careers for 2020 and Beyond: Healthcare

Posted on: 21 Mar 2015

Our “So you want to be a…” series was designed to help career-minded high school students think about the financial, academic, and personal factors one should consider when exploring traditional professions such as engineering, law, medicine, and teaching. As a supplement, our Best Careers for 2020 and Beyond series will profile careers in various fields […]

Earning admission into graduate school: Does undergraduate “brand” matter?

Posted on: 05 Jun 2014

In recent posts, we urged students to approach the college admission process with a “big picture” perspective and to consider long-term goals before “breaking the bank” on an expensive elite college, particularly if they had plans to pursue a profession that required graduate schooling.  We cited medicine, law, and even business, and asserted that employers […]