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A Rising Tech Hub with More to Offer Than Most Families Realize Reno is a city in the middle of a genuine transformation. Once defined almost entirely by its casino economy, it now hosts a growing concentration of advanced manufacturing, environmental research, and clean energy infrastructure that rivals what...

Reno is a city in the middle of a genuine transformation. The casino economy that defined Northern Nevada for decades now shares space with Tesla’s Gigafactory, the Desert Research Institute, a growing tech corridor, and one of the West’s most livable mid-sized urban environments. For college-bound students, that combination...

Families in the Reno–Sparks metro know that college admissions are growing more competitive every year. Students from schools like Galena High School, Reno High School, McQueen High School, Damonte Ranch High School, and Bishop Manogue Catholic High School arrive with solid academics and real ambition. However, many struggle to...

Reno is not the first city that comes to mind when selective college admissions offices scan a map. That relative obscurity, however, is changing. The Reno-Sparks metro has grown rapidly, and Washoe County’s secondary school landscape has diversified considerably in the past decade. Families raising college-bound students here now...

Madison is a city that rewards students who actually pay attention to it. Sitting on a narrow strip of land between Lakes Mendota and Monona, with the Wisconsin State Capitol at one end and the University of Wisconsin campus at the other, Madison is simultaneously a college town, a...

Madison is one of the best mid-sized cities in the country for college-bound students. It is the home of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a flagship Public Ivy with a national research reputation, an engaged civic culture shaped by the Wisconsin Idea, and a ring of high-performing suburban school districts...

Families in Madison and Dane County face a college admissions challenge that is easy to underestimate. Madison is a world-class university city. The University of Wisconsin-Madison (a flagship research institution with more than $1.6 billion in annual research expenditures) shapes the academic culture of every high school in the...

If you are raising a college-bound student in the Madison, Wisconsin area, you are navigating one of the most academically engaged secondary-school markets in the Midwest. Madison is home to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ranked #36 nationally and #12 among public universities by U.S. News & World Report, and...