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July 23, 2025

Move over, Our Town, and good night, A Midsummer Night. The past decade has seen an explosion of popularity of contemporary musicals– musicals written in the 1990s-2010s. That’s why...

July 23, 2025

San Jose anchors the most academically dense metro area in the country. U.S. News & World Report has found that the San Jose metro places a larger share of...

July 23, 2025

The University of Notre Dame has always been a university for high-achieving students. In 1986, the home of the Fighting Irish admitted 43% of applicants. This group, the Class...

July 23, 2025

Santa Clara University is a mid-sized, private Jesuit institution in California that caters to around 5,900 undergraduate students. Unsurprisingly, given its location, SCU is known for having one of...

July 22, 2025

If you are raising a college-bound student in San Jose, you are navigating a saturated academic market. San Jose sits at the center of Silicon Valley, and that proximity...

July 22, 2025

When applying to any of the University of California schools, you’ll face a series of supplemental essays in which you are asked to quickly and, with sufficient detail, provide...

July 22, 2025

Swarthmore College is one of the most competitive liberal arts colleges in the country, in the same league with the likes of Williams, Amherst, and Pomona. While less-known to...

July 21, 2025

San Jose sits at the geographic and historical center of Silicon Valley. Consequently, its public high schools reflect that identity directly. Lynbrook High School, part of the Fremont Union...

July 21, 2025

On July 4th, 2025, the new budget reconciliation bill, H.R.1—also referred to as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”—became law. This budget reconciliation touches nearly every sector of American...

July 21, 2025

Getting accepted into Swarthmore College, one of the very best liberal arts schools in the country, is equivalent to gaining acceptance into an Ivy League school. With a 7%...

July 21, 2025

Colby College may not be a household name in exactly the same way as other schools boasting single-digit acceptance rates (e.g., Harvard, Yale, etc.), but make no mistake—this small...

July 18, 2025

According to the Harvard Youth Poll, 33% of college students are uncomfortable sharing political opinions on campus. That’s a 20-point increase from 2015. This survey not only speaks to...

July 18, 2025

Fairfax County, Virginia is home to one of the most competitive K–12 ecosystems in the United States. Families have access to powerhouse public schools—Langley, McLean, Madison, Oakton, Woodson, Robinson,...

July 18, 2025

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, often abbreviated as UIUC, just admitted its largest freshman class in school history and now serves approximately 34,000 undergraduates. Boasting one of the...

July 18, 2025

Tom Cruise’s iconic Princeton University interview in the ’80s classic Risky Business leads his character, Joel Goodson, to receive an against-all-odds letter of acceptance. Back in 1983 when the...

July 17, 2025

Bethesda sits eight miles from downtown Washington, D.C, yet functions as its own dense economic engine. Lockheed Martin runs its global corporate headquarters from a campus on Rockledge Drive....

July 16, 2025

Bethesda sits at the intersection of two powerful forces in American education. First, it has an unusually strong public school system. Second, it sits directly beside the federal research...

July 16, 2025

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is one of the top public universities in the entire United States. Top-ranked computer science, engineering, and business programs, in particular, attract an endless...

July 16, 2025

When I taught first-year students at the University of Iowa, some of my favorite students were my adult learners. They already had so much of the emotional intelligence that...

July 16, 2025

Penn State University’s University Park campus, affectionately known as “Happy Valley,” has long been a favored destination of Keystone State residents, many of whom have adopted the Nittany Lion...