College Admissions

March 17, 2025

With the majority of college application deadlines just days away, it’s important to perform a thorough review of your applications to help avoid making obvious mistakes that can negatively...

March 15, 2025

As you begin your college search, the financial realities of the process tend to come into sharper relief. As a result, you might begin to explore colleges that offer...

March 13, 2025

If you are a teenage prodigy who spent your spare time in high school interning at a cancer research laboratory and founding a charitable organization that distributes prescription glasses...

March 13, 2025

The Common App Additional Information section appears to be a 300-word (formerly 650-word) oasis amidst a desert of Draconian character limits.  Yet, this inviting expanse of brag-sheet real estate...

March 10, 2025

Families across Fairfield County, Connecticut, know that the college admissions landscape has never been more selective, more unpredictable, or more overwhelming. Each year, we work with students who are...

March 3, 2025

An expert, data-informed guide for families making one of the most important educational decisions in a booming, competitive metroplex. Choosing the right high school in the Dallas–Fort Worth area...

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 26, 2025

What Living Eight Miles from the Capital Really Means for Your Application McLean, Virginia occupies a peculiar position in the national admissions landscape. It sits eight miles from the...

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 25, 2025

Few communities in the country carry as much college admissions weight as McLean, Virginia. Its public high schools rank among the top three in the state. Its private schools...

February 24, 2025

McLean, Virginia sits at the intersection of old-money Washington and new-economy Northern Virginia. The community is home to a remarkable concentration of federal officials, intelligence professionals, defense contractors, and...

February 23, 2025

Families in McLean, Virginia understand, often before their children reach high school, that the local admissions landscape is unforgiving. Students attend some of the most academically rigorous public schools...

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

Research universities, a legendary music ecosystem, and a living botanical laboratory — Athens offers more than most students realize Athens, Georgia rewards students who pay close attention to where...

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 19, 2025

Athens, Georgia occupies a genuinely unusual position in American higher education. The University of Georgia, one of the nation’s oldest and most distinguished public flagships, sits in the middle...

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 18, 2025

Athens, Georgia occupies a singular place on the American educational map. It is simultaneously a small Southern city, a nationally recognized college town anchored by the University of Georgia...