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July 25, 2022
Pepperdine University is a rare institution that is ranked by U.S. News as a top 50 school and also had an acceptance rate over 50% last year. This private...
July 19, 2022
Located 60 miles east of New York City, Stony Brook University boasts the largest campus of any public school in the state of New York. One of two flagship...
July 17, 2022
Prior to the advent of the modern internet, data-starved applicants had to head over to Barnes & Noble or another, now defunct retailer (remember Borders and Waldenbooks?) to find...
July 15, 2022
Unlike other high-prestige professions, many notable figures in the CS universe did not get where they are because of their college degree, but rather through their own genius. Luminaries...
Davidson College is a highly-ranked, North Carolina-based liberal arts college. And, yes, NBA legend Steph Curry is an alum. It is one of the very best such institutions in...
July 12, 2022
The University of Miami received over 49,000 applications for a spot in their 2022-23 freshman class, an all-time record and nearly double the amount received just a decade ago....
July 11, 2022
Online master’s programs have proliferated in the past decade to the point that, no matter your field of interest, page one of your Google search results will contain a...
June 30, 2022
Swarthmore College is one of the most competitive liberal arts colleges in the country, in the same league with the likes of Williams, Amherst, and Pomona. While lesser-known to...
June 29, 2022
Before we directly answer the question, “What is a liberal arts college?”, we begin with an analogy…Two cups of coffee sit before you: one bearing the insignia of a...
June 26, 2022
So much of the college application process is every bit as regimented and time-sensitive as the everyday lives of teenage applicants. After all, you’re used to the alarm on...
June 23, 2022
Over the past decade, our team at College Transitions has guided hundreds of aspiring physicians toward the best pre-med schools; undergraduate colleges and universities that will serve as ideal...
June 22, 2022
Twenty years ago, the University of Wisconsin-Madison was hardly a hot-ticket destination for stellar students from all over the country/world. While always a popular and sound choice for locals,...
June 21, 2022
During the Revolutionary War, George Washington identified a plateau on the west bank of the Hudson River, about 50 miles north of New York City, as the single most...
June 13, 2022
Welcome to College Transitions’ review of the 2022 Ivy League acceptance rates and other highly-selective colleges and universities for the 2021-22 cycle (Class of 2026). As of this posting...
June 12, 2022
Caught up in the throes of the college search process, most teens are far more worried about what their prospective colleges might ask them in an admissions interview than...
May 31, 2022
The vast majority of American colleges have extensive “core curriculum” and “distributional requirements” that dictate what specific courses and/or general categories of courses all undergraduates must complete in order...
May 30, 2022
Headlines related to artificial intelligence (AI) are ubiquitous in 2021—automation displacing workers in industrial settings, self-driving cars on the cusp of taking over our roadways, and machines diagnosing diseases...
May 10, 2022
Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, has long been a highly-selective liberal arts school, but its popularity among top-of-their-class teens has exploded in the last couple of years. In...
May 4, 2022
At many universities in the United States, the bulk of student research opportunities (and funding) go to graduate students. Yet, academic studies have repeatedly found that undergraduate research in...
May 2, 2022
Research has shown that participating in an internship while in college leads to better chances of finding a career within six months of earning your degree. Undergraduates who engage...
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