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July 31, 2025

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

A Coastal Market with Uncommon Academic Resources Newport Beach is one of Orange County’s wealthiest and most tightly zoned communities. That fact shapes its secondary schools in ways that...

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...

July 30, 2025

Mesa is Arizona’s third-largest city. It borders Tempe and Phoenix to the west. To the east, it stretches into the fast-growing communities of Gilbert and Queen Creek. In fact,...

July 30, 2025

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

Mesa is the third-largest city in Arizona. It sits in the East Valley of metropolitan Phoenix, and its school landscape has diversified considerably over the past two decades. For...

July 29, 2025

A Coastal City Where Fixed Income Is the Family Business Newport Beach families choose between two traditional public high schools. Corona del Mar High School, part of Newport-Mesa Unified...

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

Mesa, Arizona is not a city most admissions officers think of first. However, it sits at the center of one of the most concentrated aerospace and defense corridors in...

July 28, 2025

Huntsville, Alabama built its identity on the space race. That identity still shapes daily life in the Rocket City today. Wernher von Braun’s rocket team put down roots at...

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...

July 28, 2025

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

Drexel University in Philadelphia has announced a new Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, with the first cohort scheduled to begin in fall 2026. The program...

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

Huntsville is not a typical Southern college town. Rockets built the city, and that engineering identity still shapes its schools. Is Huntsville a good place for college admissions? The...

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...

July 25, 2025

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...

July 24, 2025

Huntsville has become one of the fastest-growing metro areas in the South. As a result, its high schools reflect that momentum. Home to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and...

July 24, 2025

San Jose sits at the center of the most concentrated technology economy on the planet. Yet many local students treat that fact as background noise instead of a resource....