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August 18, 2025

Earlier this year, UConn reported that they had received over 62,000 applications (and counting) for the Class of 2029. This was the highest number in school history and a...

August 18, 2025

Established right after the end of World War II, Binghamton University (also called SUNY Binghamton) has grown to become the top-rated public university in the state of New York....

August 15, 2025

San Francisco Offers Extraordinary Choice, But Not Every Path Looks the Same to Colleges If you are raising a college-bound student in San Francisco, you already know the city...

August 15, 2025

At first glance, college admissions for students in the Salt Lake City area can look deceptively manageable. Utah isn’t New York or Northern California. Many local high schools don’t...

August 15, 2025

I have a confession to make. I’ve never had a better clinical experience with any of my health care providers than I have had with my physical therapist. Hands...

August 15, 2025

Like Penn State, the University of Pittsburgh is a top-flight public option for residents of the Keystone State. However, standout programs in the disciplines of engineering, nursing, business, and...

August 14, 2025

Families across San Francisco know that selective college admissions have grown more competitive every year. High-achieving students at schools like Lowell, Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, George Washington,...

August 14, 2025

Bergen County sits directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan. That geography shapes nearly everything about how a strong applicant should approach college admissions here. Students in this county...

August 14, 2025

Admission is highly competitive at Wake Forest University, a mid-sized private school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They accept approximately one-fifth of applicants, and standards are high. In fact, almost...

August 14, 2025

The University of Texas at Austin is one of the top public universities in the United States, and its ultra-elite business, engineering, and computer science programs attract brilliant teen...

August 14, 2025

UMass Amherst is one the top public universities on the East Coast. Yet, in 2025, as acceptance rates at highly-ranked schools plummet nationwide, the University of Massachusetts still lets...

August 14, 2025

If you blinked at some point during the 2010s, you may have missed Tulane’s meteoric rise in selectivity that resulted in a 13% acceptance rate for the Class of...

August 14, 2025

The United States is filled with excellent schools that are extremely hard to get into. There are also a solid number of excellent schools that accept the vast majority...

August 13, 2025

If you are a college-bound student in Birmingham, you live in a city built on reinvention. A place once defined by iron and steel now runs on biomedical research,...

August 13, 2025

Bergen County sits directly across the Hudson from Manhattan. That geography shapes nearly everything about its college admissions landscape. Specifically, families here have access to a dense cluster of...

August 13, 2025

In most cases, recommendation letters are a standard requirement for the college admissions process. Admissions officers use these letters to better understand the applicant’s promising qualities and characteristics that...

August 13, 2025

It’s happened to us before. A new technology cresting like a giant inevitable wave, blotting out the horizon and a clear view of the future along with it. The...

August 13, 2025

With an acceptance rate of 3.6%, Stanford University is in a league of selectivity with only a handful of other schools including Harvard, MIT, and Princeton. At Stanford, the...

August 13, 2025

In the autumn of 1995, Ohio State University welcomed a typical freshman class of 5,794 individuals to campus. Ninety percent of this Buckeye cohort were Ohio residents and they...

August 12, 2025

Birmingham sits at an interesting crossroads for college-bound families. The metro area contains one of the strongest rings of suburban public schools in the South. It is also home...