Should I go to a liberal arts college?
Two cups of coffee sit before you: one bearing the insignia of a popular, multinational brand and the other, an unknown local brew. As a participant in a taste test, you are asked to sip both and then state which one is better. After sampling…
How to Evaluate a College’s Career Services
As colleges compete for your business, they often tout their shiniest new amenities—the Mall of America-size fitness center boasting a 35-foot rock climbing wall (University of Texas), the dorm facility featuring a sauna, steam room, and tanning beds (University of Arizona), or the indoor beach…
Successfully Navigating a College Fair
Without a solid game plan, a college fair can easily devolve into a blur of smiles, handshakes, and the accumulation of enough glossy pamphlets to wallpaper your bedroom twenty times over. However, with proper planning, a college fair can be an illuminating experience that will…
So you want to be an accountant…
Welcome to the latest installment of College Transitions’ “So you want to be a….” 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…
So you want to be a professor…
Welcome to the 10th installment of College Transitions’ “So you want to be a….” 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…
Does Your College Major Matter?
Want to spend a couple of unproductive hours on the internet? Google the question: “Does your college major matter?” You’ll find countless articles offering unequivocal yes’s and no’s, followed by dissenting reader comments diametrically opposed to the author’s. Articles imploring young people to “follow your…
Colleges that are probably better than Harvard
Now that you understand what research has to say about the contextual and often-limited benefits of attending a highly-selective school, you may have opened your mind to a few less competitive yet wonderful institutions. However, we’ve worked with enough cream of the crop high school…
So you want to be a psychologist…
Welcome to installment eight of College Transitions’ “So you want to be a….” 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….
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