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August 12, 2025

This past cycle, Florida State University received over 78,000 applications, an all-time high. FSU’s rise in popularity has—not coincidentally—also led to a spike in selectivity. For example, in 2005,...

August 12, 2025

In 2025, enthusiasm for Indiana University-Bloomington extends well beyond the Hoosier State. In fact, the majority of the record 67,000+ applications received by IU Bloomington for the Class of...

August 12, 2025

The oldest university in the state of Texas, A&M has long outgrown the “Agricultural & Mechanical” portion of its name. At least 40,000 student applicants have applied for the...

August 12, 2025

Prior to the turn of the new millennium, the University of Maryland, College Park welcomed 75% of the applicant pool into the Terrapin family. In recent years, the University...

August 11, 2025

Monmouth County is home to some of New Jersey’s strongest public, private, and magnet high schools. Families here benefit from exceptional academic options—from nationally ranked magnet programs like Biotechnology...

August 11, 2025

Birmingham Blends Old-Money Public Schools with Elite Private Options If you are raising a college-bound student in Birmingham, Alabama, you are navigating a distinctive secondary school market. Affluent suburban...

August 11, 2025

The 2025-26 college football season is set to begin on August 23, when Iowa State and Kansas State square off at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland. Then on August...

August 11, 2025

Families across Bergen County know the college admissions landscape here is unlike almost anywhere else in the country. High-achieving students graduate each year from schools like Tenafly High School,...

August 11, 2025

Chapel Hill is a college town in the truest sense. Specifically, it is built around the flagship campus of the University of North Carolina, and it sits inside the...

August 11, 2025

Charging an annual in-state tuition of approximately $6,400, the University of Florida allows residents to get a full year’s education for roughly the same cost of a single course...

August 11, 2025

Back in the ‘90s, American University had an acceptance rate of nearly 80%. In recent years, the acceptance rate has fallen as low as 26% and is typically between...

August 11, 2025

Less than 10 miles from Boston, Brandeis University is yet another high-end option in a geographical region teeming with elite schools. Founded by the American-Jewish community in 1948, this...

August 11, 2025

Lehigh University, a top 50 school located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is home to 5,900 undergraduate students, the vast majority of whom line up to study within the top-flight engineering,...

August 11, 2025

As far as accomplishments go, getting into Columbia University in 2025-26 versus getting accepted a generation ago are wholly incomparable. In fact, it would be like equating climbing Mt....

August 8, 2025

Families across the Birmingham metro area know that selective college admissions have grown more competitive every year. High-achieving students at schools like Homewood, Mountain Brook, Vestavia Hills, Hoover, Spain...

August 8, 2025

Families across the Minneapolis–St. Paul Metro Area enjoy extraordinary educational resources. Students attend some of the strongest public and private high schools in the Midwest: Wayzata, Minnetonka, Edina, Eagan,...

August 8, 2025

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, sits inside one of the most academically saturated small cities in the country. East Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill High School, and Carrboro High...

August 7, 2025

Frisco sits at the center of one of the fastest-growing corporate corridors in the country. Today, many families still treat it primarily as a place with good schools and...

August 7, 2025

Tampa Bay is home to some of Florida’s strongest high schools—academically ambitious publics like Plant, Newsome, Steinbrenner, and Sickles, nationally respected private schools such as Berkeley Prep, Tampa Prep,...

August 7, 2025

The NCAA rolled out the College Football Playoff back in 2014. For the first decade of its existence, the College Football Playoff was relatively small in scope: just four...