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December 21, 2020
Back in 2012, a student at the University of Cincinnati won a restraining order against her parents for “stalking” her in college. They had installed spyware on their daughter’s...
December 16, 2020
Widely considered one of the best documentaries of the 2000s, The King of Kong takes you deep within the surprisingly fascinating subculture of competitive retro video gaming. The film...
December 14, 2020
Even the brightest and most worldly college-bound American teens are not usually able to name more than a handful of universities in the United Kingdom. Sure, there’s Oxford, Cambridge,...
September 4, 2020
The notion of test-optional admissions was born in 1969, in the coastal town of Brunswick, Maine. There, the newly-minted, fresh-faced Dean of Bowdoin College, Roger Howell Jr., all of...
August 3, 2020
As the higher education community waited with bated breath for the annual Common App launch party on August 1st, rumors flew about what revolutionary changes to the popular application...
June 13, 2020
Colleges Worth Your Money received two glowing reviews from Booklist, the publication of the American Library Association that critiques the top newly-released fiction and non-fiction titles. Booklist praised our...
June 10, 2020
We previously covered the Early Decision/Early Action acceptance rates for the Class of 2024 at the eight Ivy League universities as well at a number of other selective schools....
June 9, 2020
College Transitions co-founder, Dave Bergman, spoke with Kristy Or of Tatler – Hong Kong to discuss the college admissions process at elite American universities. Bergman explained that if “you...
May 11, 2020
College Transitions CEO, Dr. Andrew Belasco, spoke with the University of Pennsylvania’s award-winning daily newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian, about how many colleges are struggling to fill their 2020-21 freshman...
May 7, 2020
Discussing the impact of COVID-19 on the college plans of the Class of 2020, College Transitions CEO, Andrew Belasco, spoke with WKBW in Buffalo, New York. As Andrew said,...
April 20, 2020
In an ordinary year, roughly 2% of college-bound high school grads elect to take a gap year prior to launching their postsecondary career. Many spend the time traveling internationally,...
April 17, 2020
As the entire world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, international high school seniors already accepted into an American college must wait to see what unfolds with respect to travel...
April 2, 2020
With COVID-19 increasing the amount of Zoom, Skype, and Facetime conversations taking place in a professional context, TechRepublic, a leading trade publication in the information technology field, reached out...
April 1, 2020
Recognizing that the coronavirus crisis has caused massive disruptions to the lives of current high school students (along with the rest of the world), many colleges have already come...
March 26, 2020
In the eyes of college admissions officers, there are certain types of activities that occupy the highest points within the extracurricular firmament. Placing in national/international academic competitions, ascending to...
March 23, 2020
For academically-inclined 10th grade students, the abrupt shuttering of their high school due to the coronavirus pandemic was not met with the type of youthful glee that follows a...
March 22, 2020
On Friday, March 20th, the College Board delivered some much anticipated news about how they would proceed with Advanced Placement (AP) exams as the nation, along with most of...
March 19, 2020
“What should I do now that college tours are canceled?” “How will I demonstrate interest in my prospective colleges?” “Will I be able to take the SAT, ACT, and...
March 18, 2020
Depending on where you live, your high school may officially be closed for the next couple of weeks or (perhaps more likely) months. This is surely a tough thing...
March 10, 2020
As of the publication of this blog, there are far more unknowns than knowns regarding coronavirus and COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. What is known is that,...
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