College Admissions

July 30, 2025

Mesa is Arizona’s third-largest city. It borders Tempe and Phoenix to the west. To the east, it stretches into the fast-growing communities of Gilbert and Queen Creek. In fact,...

July 30, 2025

Of the eight Ivy League schools, Dartmouth receives the fewest number of applications. There were 28,230 hopefuls for the Class of 2029, around half the number at Columbia or...

July 30, 2025

Pepperdine University is a rare institution that is ranked by U.S. News as a top 100 school while also having an acceptance rate of just under 63% last year....

July 29, 2025

Mesa is the third-largest city in Arizona. It sits in the East Valley of metropolitan Phoenix, and its school landscape has diversified considerably over the past two decades. For...

July 29, 2025

Oh, to be alive in 1998…we watched with childlike naiveté as Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa launched home run after home run assisted by their “totally natural” superhero muscles,...

July 28, 2025

Mesa, Arizona is not a city most admissions officers think of first. However, it sits at the center of one of the most concentrated aerospace and defense corridors in...

July 28, 2025

Yale’s acceptance rate of 4.6% for the Class of 2029 is not the type of number you want to simply glide past as you proceed through the application with...

July 28, 2025

Houston, Texas, is home to one of the nation’s finest private research institutions—Rice University. No matter how you measure Rice’s performance, this school of roughly 4,500 undergraduates comes out...

July 27, 2025

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...

July 26, 2025

Wesleyan University is a top 20 liberal arts school that has never been afraid to do things their way. Situated in Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan is slightly larger than many...

July 25, 2025

Applicants to the Brown Class of 2029 were greeted with a 5.6% acceptance rate, similar to the year prior. Given that 19 of every 20 applicants are turned away–even...

July 24, 2025

San Jose sits at the center of the most concentrated technology economy on the planet. Yet many local students treat that fact as background noise instead of a resource....

July 24, 2025

Like many other elite private colleges, Johns Hopkins University has fared quite well in higher education’s selectivity arms race since the start of the present millennium. As the Baltimore...

July 23, 2025

San Jose anchors the most academically dense metro area in the country. U.S. News & World Report has found that the San Jose metro places a larger share of...

July 23, 2025

The University of Notre Dame has always been a university for high-achieving students. In 1986, the home of the Fighting Irish admitted 43% of applicants. This group, the Class...

July 23, 2025

Santa Clara University is a mid-sized, private Jesuit institution in California that caters to around 5,900 undergraduate students. Unsurprisingly, given its location, SCU is known for having one of...

July 22, 2025

If you are raising a college-bound student in San Jose, you are navigating a saturated academic market. San Jose sits at the center of Silicon Valley, and that proximity...

July 22, 2025

When applying to any of the University of California schools, you’ll face a series of supplemental essays in which you are asked to quickly and, with sufficient detail, provide...

July 22, 2025

The 2024-25 admissions cycle saw the nine undergraduate University of California campuses collectively attract 249,824 applications. While this number was a slight drop from the previous year’s record-high 250,959...

July 22, 2025

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 less-known to...