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October 5, 2025

Families relocating to, or already living in, the Salt Lake City metro area are often surprised by how academically competitive the region’s high schools have become. From elite independent...

October 5, 2025

A clear, research-backed look at how Princeton, WW-P, Hopewell Valley, Lawrenceville, and Mercer County’s private schools compare and how families can make informed decisions. Families in Mercer County face...

October 5, 2025

If you’re the parent of a college-bound teen, you might be panicking over the astronomical cost of tuition, hoping that if you follow the rainbow of FAFSA forms, local...

October 3, 2025

Residents of the state of California are blessed with an embarrassment of public university riches. In addition to the exceptional University of California (UC) schools (see UC rankings here),...

September 30, 2025

Why should we learn to write? This question has had a clear answer for a long time, but with the proliferation of generative AI, many have opened it up...

September 30, 2025

Families in Charlotte and across the Carolinas are once again taking standardized testing seriously, and for good reason. As many of the most selective colleges in the country have...

September 29, 2025

If you’re raising a college-bound teenager in the Milwaukee metro region, you’ve probably noticed something: the admissions process here feels more intense than it used to. More high achievers....

September 26, 2025

It’s your first year at university, and on the morning before your 10 a.m. lecture, you decide to leave your apartment on a busy city street and head down...

September 26, 2025

At their core, college admissions officers have a good deal in common with seventh graders. While they may not share the same hygiene issues, burgeoning rebellious spirit, or general...

September 24, 2025

Wondering if colleges look at the social media accounts of prospective students, and how they find them? Let’s start with a cautionary tale. In a well-publicized story that made...

September 23, 2025

For the Fall 2025, California Community College students will need to embrace new changes to the curriculum track that prepares them to transfer to either CSU or CU. IGETC...

September 23, 2025

“Bad” can be a very relative term, particularly when attached to high school grades. For a high-achieving teen with their eyes on gaining acceptance into a prestigious college, an...

September 22, 2025

Why even the strongest Dallas–Fort Worth students stumble in today’s competitive admissions landscape and how to build a smarter path forward. North Texas families benefit from something truly special:...

September 22, 2025

Attending community college can be a great way to save money while pursuing higher education. And if you’re searching for scholarships to make community college even more affordable, you...

September 19, 2025

Boise-area families now sit in a college admissions environment that looks very different from even a decade ago. While Idaho does not generate the raw application volume of California,...

September 19, 2025

Remote learning has opened up many avenues for students. In fall 2021, 4.4 million undergrads—28% of the total US undergraduate population—were only taking classes online. During this period, about...

September 19, 2025

The average applicant is fully aware of Early Decision as a “card to play” in the admissions game. In that arrangement, each party makes a concession—you, the applicant, give...

September 19, 2025

Welcome to the exciting world of data science, where you not only get to look at numbers but at the story those numbers tell. Data scientists gather data and...

September 18, 2025

When I asked ChatGPT why I should read The Catcher in the Rye, it said because the book portrays “adolescent alienation and identity.” ChatGPT also told me that the...

September 18, 2025

If you are raising a college-bound student in the Austin, Texas area, you are navigating one of the most competitive and fast-evolving secondary-school ecosystems in the country. Between nationally...