College Admissions

August 4, 2025

In 1999, Vanderbilt received under 10,000 applications and sported an acceptance rate of 61%. The turn of the millennium saw annual incremental increases in selectivity that led to the...

August 4, 2025

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,...

August 4, 2025

Outside of “Encourage your ultra-wealthy parents to donate a building” or “Be a heavily-recruited athlete who also happens to have an SAT score in the 99th percentile,” there is...

August 4, 2025

NYU has a reputation for world-class academics with an international flair. In fact, the 29,000+ undergraduates situated in Greenwich Village include the highest number of international students of any...

August 1, 2025

Newport Beach is known for its harbor, its yacht clubs, and its real estate prices. That reputation, however, can obscure a quieter fact. The city sits beside one of...

August 1, 2025

Over 15,000 undergraduate students proudly don the distinctive orange gear associated with Syracuse University, a mid-sized school in Upstate New York. The ‘Cuse received a record 42,000+ applications for...

August 1, 2025

Fordham University differs from many in its peer group of selective, academically strong schools located in the Northeast who have seen their acceptance rates plummet over the last decade....

July 31, 2025

Newport Beach sits on a stretch of Orange County coastline known for harbor views, Balboa Island, and a major bond investment firm. Families here often want to know how...

July 31, 2025

Mesa sits in an unusual spot in the national admissions landscape. It is the third-largest city in Arizona, with a population approaching 520,000. Yet it rarely appears in the...

July 31, 2025

Unlike many other public institutions with notable strengths in the areas of business, computer science, and engineering, Virginia Tech’s acceptance rate does not yet strike fear into the hearts...

July 31, 2025

Clemson University, a public land-grant institution located in South Carolina, is home to more than 23,000 undergraduate students. After receiving an all-time record of 60,000+ applications in 2024, it...

July 31, 2025

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....

July 31, 2025

Situated in scenic Addison County, Vermont, Middlebury College is consistently ranked as one of the top 10 liberal arts schools in the United States. While not quite as selective...

July 30, 2025

A Coastal Market with Uncommon Academic Resources Newport Beach is one of Orange County’s wealthiest and most tightly zoned communities. That fact shapes its secondary schools in ways that...

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

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

A Coastal City Where Fixed Income Is the Family Business Newport Beach families choose between two traditional public high schools. Corona del Mar High School, part of Newport-Mesa Unified...

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...