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September 3, 2025

Great Falls, Virginia has no high school of its own. Yet families here send their children into one of the most academically intense school systems in the country. Quiet...

September 3, 2025

Did you know that 39% of first-time, full-time bachelor’s degree students don’t earn their degree within 8 years? If you count yourself among them, you’re certainly not alone.  Thinking...

September 2, 2025

If you are raising a college-bound student in Great Falls, Virginia, you are operating in one of the most academically ambitious corners of the Washington, D.C. metro area. Great...

September 1, 2025

Families across Great Falls know that selective college admissions have grown more competitive every year. Notably, high-achieving students at Langley High School, the anchor school for this rural pocket...

September 1, 2025

There are a lot of characters in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (I counted almost sixty). It figures, as the main character, Holden, has attended three different...

September 1, 2025

If you’re a college-bound student in the Albany area, you’ve probably wondered: does living here hurt or help my chances? The answer is nuanced. Albany’s location creates both real...

August 31, 2025

Since his campaign and eventual inauguration into the Office of the Presidency, Donald Trump has routinely targeted institutional practices surrounding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, or DEI. The Trump Administration...

August 30, 2025

Families in the Albany, New York, area often wonder how their region stacks up for college admissions. Albany and the surrounding Capital Region offer a surprisingly strong educational landscape....

August 29, 2025

Bloomington, Indiana presents a strange paradox for ambitious high school students. Indiana University sits in the middle of town, so families see a flagship research university every single day....

August 29, 2025

On August 8, 2025, four university students and one recent graduate filed an antitrust class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, placing 32...

August 29, 2025

The nation’s oldest Jesuit institution of higher learning is also its most selective, as Georgetown University welcomed just 12% of applicants to the Class of 2029 onto its historical...

August 29, 2025

When applying to MIT, a school with a 4.5% acceptance rate where a 1500 SAT would place you below the average enrolled student (seriously), teens should be aware that...

August 29, 2025

In the most recent admissions cycle, Johns Hopkins University admitted 6.4% of applicants into the Class of 2028. As a school that rejects thousands of applicants each year with...

August 29, 2025

Of the nearly 60,000 applications received by Columbia, just 4.2% were accepted, the second lowest mark in the Ivy League (Harvard was the lowest). At a school where 96...

August 29, 2025

In the 2024-25 admissions cycle, NYU received over 120,000 applications. That was a record-breaking figure for the university, as was the all-time low acceptance rate of 9%. To put...

August 29, 2025

The high school student who is the ultimate type A, planner extraordinaire can probably lay out an accurate vision for the next decade of their life, including their college...

August 28, 2025

Bloomington is an unusual place to grow up. It is a small Indiana city surrounded by farmland, yet it holds a major research university with a global reputation. As...

August 28, 2025

North Carolina State University is a large public research university that forms one corner of the so-called Research Triangle, along with Duke University and the University of North Carolina—Chapel...

August 27, 2025

If you are raising a college-bound student in Bloomington, Indiana, you are operating in an unusual market. Bloomington is a mid-sized city built around Indiana University. That university presence...

August 27, 2025

For the past decade or so, computer science has been touted as the “golden ticket” of college degrees. In such a hot and ever-growing field, many students were wooed...