College Admissions

February 28, 2025

If you’re wondering, “How many extracurricular activities do colleges want, anyway?” you’re not alone. To shed light on this question, let’s look to Parkinson’s Law, which began as nothing...

February 25, 2025

Public vs. Private Schools in Atlanta: What Actually Matters for College Admissions in 2026 A clear, research driven guide for Metro Atlanta families weighing two excellent but very different...

February 20, 2025

Families in the Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill area benefit from an unusually rich educational landscape. Students here attend some of the strongest public, charter, magnet, and independent high schools...

February 20, 2025

Mercer County, NJ is one of the most academically competitive regions in the Mid-Atlantic—anchored by Princeton University, filled with high-achieving families, and home to a dense concentration of elite...

February 20, 2025

If you attended college in the US, you likely had classmates in ROTC. That’s because ROTC programs are near-ubiquitous—more than 1,700 colleges and universities in the US offer ROTC...

February 18, 2025

Perhaps reflective of volatile times, many higher education institutions have shuttered their doors or been subsumed by other, larger institutions. This has left students, alumni, and educators, among others,...

February 18, 2025

It’s natural to dread looking at the sticker price for higher education. In 2024, the most expensive colleges in the country charged nearly $100,000 in annual cost. That same...

February 17, 2025

Since tuition can be quite costly, it’s easy to understand why the average person might assume that tuition fees are what keeps a college’s lights on. But college finances...

February 16, 2025

A clear, expert-backed guide for Charlotte-area families navigating one of the Southeast’s most competitive academic regions. In the Charlotte metro, choosing a high school is rarely simple. With standout...

February 12, 2025

Do you dream of a school known for its academic rigor, where excellence is prized and the faculty is top-notch? Perhaps you also dream of sunny skies, mild temperatures,...

February 12, 2025

President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to abolish the Department of Education (ED). In early February 2025, it was reported that members of the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency...

February 12, 2025

By now, whether you’ve been told about them at a young age, know someone attending one of them, or just discovered them, my guess is that you’ve heard of...

February 11, 2025

Houston families face an interesting paradox: the metro area offers a huge number of high-performing public, magnet, charter, and private schools, but that abundance makes the choice far more...

February 10, 2025

If you live in Fairfield County, there’s no such thing as a simple school decision. With nationally ranked public high schools in Darien, New Canaan, Wilton, Greenwich, and Westport,...

February 8, 2025

If you’re dreaming of a historic campus, individual faculty mentorship, epic libraries, and prestige for your college experience, you may want to add Oxford to your wish list (University...

February 6, 2025

Reasons for enrolling in one of the U.S.’s best military colleges may vary. Yet all graduates will obtain a host of various life skills, tons of discipline, and a...

January 31, 2025

The class of 2027 saw a tremendous number of talented and impressive applicants. While college admissions have always been competitive, the most recent data suggests that this trend will...

January 31, 2025

The best business schools in Canada are some of the finest worldwide, with many dating back to the late 18th and early 19th centuries. From Halifax to Toronto, Canada...

January 31, 2025

If you are a fan of podcasts like Serial, documentaries like Making a Murderer, and the billions of similar wrongful convictions stories that have been chronicled across various mediums...

January 31, 2025

For students lacking inexhaustible higher education funds, finding out whether or not you are accepted into your dream college is only one battle in a broader, fast-unfolding conflict. Upon...