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July 31, 2025
Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, has long been a highly selective liberal arts school, but its popularity among top-of-their-class teens has exploded in the last couple of years....
Situated in scenic Addison County, Vermont, Middlebury College is consistently ranked as one of the top 10 liberal arts schools in the United States. While not quite as selective...
July 30, 2025
Families across the Richmond region, from Henrico and Chesterfield to the City of Richmond, know that selective college admission grows more competitive each year. Students at schools like Deep...
Of the eight Ivy League schools, Dartmouth receives the fewest number of applications. There were 28,230 hopefuls for the Class of 2029, around half the number at Columbia or...
Depending on your circumstances, the five allotted entries in the Honors section of the Common Application can look like anything from a frighteningly vast and boundless ocean to a...
Pepperdine University is a rare institution that is ranked by U.S. News as a top 100 school while also having an acceptance rate of just under 63% last year....
July 29, 2025
Oh, to be alive in 1998…we watched with childlike naiveté as Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa launched home run after home run assisted by their “totally natural” superhero muscles,...
July 28, 2025
A permanent fixture on countless “best-of-all-time” lists, J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye is a book about a teenager that’s actually for adults. I’m not claiming that you can’t...
Yale’s acceptance rate of 4.6% for the Class of 2029 is not the type of number you want to simply glide past as you proceed through the application with...
Houston, Texas, is home to one of the nation’s finest private research institutions—Rice University. No matter how you measure Rice’s performance, this school of roughly 4,500 undergraduates comes out...
July 27, 2025
Davidson College is a highly ranked, North Carolina-based liberal arts college. And, yes, NBA legend Steph Curry is an alum. It is one of the very best such institutions...
July 26, 2025
Wesleyan University is a top 20 liberal arts school that has never been afraid to do things their way. Situated in Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan is slightly larger than many...
July 25, 2025
We get it: people want to improve their SAT or ACT score as much as possible. That’s why there’s a ton of advice online about how to improve your...
Here at College Transitions, we encourage you to use critical thinking, a crucial skill for success in college and beyond. That’s why, before we begin our list of the...
Applicants to the Brown Class of 2029 were greeted with a 5.6% acceptance rate, similar to the year prior. Given that 19 of every 20 applicants are turned away–even...
July 24, 2025
Like many other elite private colleges, Johns Hopkins University has fared quite well in higher education’s selectivity arms race since the start of the present millennium. As the Baltimore...
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...
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...
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
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...
