College Admissions

September 9, 2025

If you are raising a college-bound student in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area, you are in one of the most academically competitive secondary-school markets in the Midwest. The shadow...

September 8, 2025

If you are raising a college-bound student in the Albuquerque, New Mexico area, you are navigating a secondary-school landscape that is more competitive (and more varied) than many families...

September 6, 2025

Families across Albuquerque and the greater Bernalillo County area know that selective college admissions have grown more competitive every year. High-achieving students at schools like La Cueva, Eldorado, Sandia,...

September 5, 2025

If you’re raising a college-bound student in Charlotte, Union County, or Fort Mill, you may have noticed something. College admissions here feel tougher than they were even a few...

September 5, 2025

The University of Washington’s main campus in Seattle isn’t the type of public school that just services local residents. Rather, UW-Seattle attracts twice as many applicants from out-of-state/country than...

September 5, 2025

Families in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, area often underestimate how much their region has to offer college-bound students. The metro area is home to a genuinely diverse educational landscape,...

September 4, 2025

Diversity is once again the buzzword of the moment. But unlike the past fifteen years—a veritable golden age of diversity efforts across industries and throughout popular culture, which saw...

September 3, 2025

If you’re a college-bound student in Albuquerque, you’re navigating one of the most distinctive and underappreciated college admissions landscapes in the country. New Mexico as a whole sends far...

September 3, 2025

If you live in Montgomery County, Maryland, you’re surrounded by some of the most accomplished public and private high schools in the Mid-Atlantic. That’s the good news. The harder...

September 1, 2025

If you’re a college-bound student in the Albany area, you’ve probably wondered: does living here hurt or help my chances? The answer is nuanced. Albany’s location creates both real...

August 30, 2025

Families in the Albany, New York, area often wonder how their region stacks up for college admissions. Albany and the surrounding Capital Region offer a surprisingly strong educational landscape....

August 29, 2025

On August 8, 2025, four university students and one recent graduate filed an antitrust class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, placing 32...

August 29, 2025

The nation’s oldest Jesuit institution of higher learning is also its most selective, as Georgetown University welcomed just 12% of applicants to the Class of 2029 onto its historical...

August 29, 2025

When applying to MIT, a school with a 4.5% acceptance rate where a 1500 SAT would place you below the average enrolled student (seriously), teens should be aware that...

August 29, 2025

In the most recent admissions cycle, Johns Hopkins University admitted 6.4% of applicants into the Class of 2028. As a school that rejects thousands of applicants each year with...

August 29, 2025

Of the nearly 60,000 applications received by Columbia, just 4.2% were accepted, the second lowest mark in the Ivy League (Harvard was the lowest). At a school where 96...

August 29, 2025

In the 2024-25 admissions cycle, NYU received over 120,000 applications. That was a record-breaking figure for the university, as was the all-time low acceptance rate of 9%. To put...

August 29, 2025

The high school student who is the ultimate type A, planner extraordinaire can probably lay out an accurate vision for the next decade of their life, including their college...

August 28, 2025

North Carolina State University is a large public research university that forms one corner of the so-called Research Triangle, along with Duke University and the University of North Carolina—Chapel...

August 27, 2025

The University of Virginia is one of the handful of flagship public institutions in the United States that attract massive numbers of high-achieving applicants from around the country/globe each...