College Admissions

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...

July 28, 2025

Huntsville, Alabama built its identity on the space race. That identity still shapes daily life in the Rocket City today. Wernher von Braun’s rocket team put down roots at...

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

Huntsville is not a typical Southern college town. Rockets built the city, and that engineering identity still shapes its schools. Is Huntsville a good place for college admissions? The...

July 24, 2025

Huntsville has become one of the fastest-growing metro areas in the South. As a result, its high schools reflect that momentum. Home to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and...

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

The Competitive Landscape in Huntsville Huntsville’s admissions landscape looks different from most mid-sized Southern cities. New Century Technology High School, a selective magnet, currently holds the number one spot...

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

Chandler sits at the center of what locals call the Silicon Desert. Intel, TSMC, and Mobileye have all built out manufacturing and testing operations here, and for a high...

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

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...