College Admissions

August 11, 2025

Chapel Hill is a college town in the truest sense. Specifically, it is built around the flagship campus of the University of North Carolina, and it sits inside the...

August 11, 2025

Charging an annual in-state tuition of approximately $6,400, the University of Florida allows residents to get a full year’s education for roughly the same cost of a single course...

August 11, 2025

Back in the ‘90s, American University had an acceptance rate of nearly 80%. In recent years, the acceptance rate has fallen as low as 26% and is typically between...

August 11, 2025

Less than 10 miles from Boston, Brandeis University is yet another high-end option in a geographical region teeming with elite schools. Founded by the American-Jewish community in 1948, this...

August 11, 2025

Lehigh University, a top 50 school located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is home to 5,900 undergraduate students, the vast majority of whom line up to study within the top-flight engineering,...

August 11, 2025

As far as accomplishments go, getting into Columbia University in 2025-26 versus getting accepted a generation ago are wholly incomparable. In fact, it would be like equating climbing Mt....

August 8, 2025

Families across the Birmingham metro area know that selective college admissions have grown more competitive every year. High-achieving students at schools like Homewood, Mountain Brook, Vestavia Hills, Hoover, Spain...

August 8, 2025

Families across the Minneapolis–St. Paul Metro Area enjoy extraordinary educational resources. Students attend some of the strongest public and private high schools in the Midwest: Wayzata, Minnetonka, Edina, Eagan,...

August 8, 2025

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, sits inside one of the most academically saturated small cities in the country. East Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill High School, and Carrboro High...

August 7, 2025

Frisco sits at the center of one of the fastest-growing corporate corridors in the country. Today, many families still treat it primarily as a place with good schools and...

August 7, 2025

Tampa Bay is home to some of Florida’s strongest high schools—academically ambitious publics like Plant, Newsome, Steinbrenner, and Sickles, nationally respected private schools such as Berkeley Prep, Tampa Prep,...

August 7, 2025

Santa Barbara looks, from a distance, like a place where ambition takes a back seat to ocean views. That impression misses what actually sits inside city limits: a UC...

August 7, 2025

Sugar Land sits southwest of downtown Houston in Fort Bend County. The city grew from a company town built around a sugar refinery into one of the most diverse...

August 6, 2025

Frisco has grown faster than almost any city in America. Its school system has grown right along with it. The city now hosts the headquarters of the Dallas Cowboys...

August 6, 2025

Santa Barbara sits in an unusual position among California college towns. It hosts a top-tier public research university and a community college widely regarded as the best in the...

August 6, 2025

Sugar Land’s School Landscape Sugar Land sits inside Fort Bend Independent School District (FBISD), one of the largest districts in Texas. FBISD runs twelve comprehensive high schools. In practice,...

August 5, 2025

Sugar Land has grown from a company town built around the Imperial Sugar refinery into one of the most academically competitive suburbs in the Houston metro area. Master-planned communities...

August 5, 2025

Frisco no longer looks like a typical Texas suburb. Over the past two decades, the city has grown from a small farming town into a corporate magnet. It is...

August 5, 2025

Santa Barbara Is a Small Market with an Outsized Academic Identity Santa Barbara is not a major admissions hub in the way Los Angeles or San Francisco are. That...

August 5, 2025

All of the member schools within the Claremont Consortium have excellent reputations, but Pomona College and its 1,766 brilliant undergrads edge out Claremont McKenna for the title of “Most...