“Innovative and invaluable…use this book as your college lifeline.”
— Lynn O'Shaughnessy
Nationally Recognized College Expert
February 10, 2026
Let me start off by trying my best not to bury the lede—AP Macroeconomics is tough. In fact, it’s one of the hardest AP courses—just 51.8% of students who...
Allow me to read your mind. You’re wondering: is AP Comparative Government hard? What is the average AP Comp Gov score? How to get a 5 on AP Comparative...
February 8, 2026
Are you preparing to take the SAT and wondering how to predict your score? Or wondering what constitutes a good score in the first place? Few tests in your...
February 6, 2026
The college application process—particularly the timeline—can be fraught and opaque (not to mention full of confusing acronyms: EA, ED, ED2…). In all the chaos, perhaps you’ve fallen a bit...
When students and their families navigate the landscape of college education, understanding the trends in major selection across different institutions can offer important insights. This post investigates the most...
February 5, 2026
The management consulting industry continues to attract top talent with its compelling combination of intellectual challenge, rapid professional development, and attractive compensation packages. For recent graduates, the industry offers...
February 2, 2026
On your way to earning a bachelor’s in sociology, you’ll encounter coursework in areas such as Statistical Methods in Sociology, Poverty in America, Sociology of Religion, Social Networks, Urban...
If you have a brilliant scientific mind that has always been fixated on topics along the lines of black holes, dark matter, and extraterrestrial life then there may just...
February 1, 2026
Washington, D.C., our nation’s capital, is absolutely bursting at the seams with landmarks, memorials, and museums. It’s also a pedestrian-friendly city (you’ll want to experience those spring cherry blossoms...
January 31, 2026
Have you been running lemonade stands since before you could walk? Selling an array of sought-after stickers on the kindergarten bus? Marketing your signature plant-watering service through neighborhood door-to-door...
January 30, 2026
For aspiring doctors, the journey to medical school is often viewed as a challenging and competitive process. While excellent grades and strong MCAT scores are certainly crucial, the role...
January 29, 2026
If you’re a high school student with big dreams in medicine, biomedical science, or health-related research, the Harvard Medical School Pre-College Online Certificate Program offers an early opportunity to...
Grim climate change statistics and predictions often leave us with pressing questions: how should we deal with – and prepare for – rising global and ocean temperatures? How do...
January 27, 2026
The brain is the most fascinating, complex, and mysterious organ in our bodies. It is working 24/7, controling our sensory processing, motor function, and emotions, and has billions of...
January 25, 2026
Roughly 15-20 percent of the U.S. workforce works some form of shift outside standard daytime hours. Nurses, warehouse workers, manufacturing workers, security guards, transportation workers, hotel staff, emergency dispatchers,...
January 24, 2026
Ready for courses like Analytical Mechanics, Medical Radiation Engineering, Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, and General Physics: Electromagnetism, Optics, and Modern Physics? Majoring in physics is an extraordinarily rigorous enterprise...
January 23, 2026
What the numbers reveal—and what they mean for students, families, and the future of higher education Somewhere in the last ten years, a generation of college students quietly turned...
For almost two years, COVID-19 dramatically altered the everyday lives of American teens as well as young people all over the globe. One particularly salient change was the rise...
Majoring in classics does not provide a direct career path like pre-professional fields of study. Rather, it produces graduates who thrive in the areas of critical thinking, research, writing,...
January 22, 2026
Navigating the financial aid landscape when choosing a college can be daunting, especially when trying to understand the different types of aid available and how they are awarded. Merit-based...
