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Mesa sits in an unusual spot in the national admissions landscape. It is the third-largest city in Arizona, with a population approaching 520,000. Yet it rarely appears in the college counseling conversation the way smaller, better-branded cities do. Families here default comfortably toward Arizona State University in nearby Tempe....

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, few suburban markets in the Southwest offer comparable academic variety: nationally ranked charter schools, a large public district, and a...

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 college-bound families, this market is moreover more complex than it initially appears. Schools here range from one of the top...

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 the United States. Boeing builds the AH-64 Apache helicopter here, employing more than 3,700 workers at a two-million-square-foot facility. Moreover,...

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. Today, the city has more engineers per capita than almost anywhere in the country. It is also home to a...

San Jose anchors the most academically dense metro area in the country. U.S. News & World Report has found that the San Jose metro places a larger share of its high schools in the national top quarter than any other metro in America. That metro area includes Santa Clara,...

If you are raising a college-bound student in San Jose, you are navigating a saturated academic market. San Jose sits at the center of Silicon Valley, and that proximity shapes the region’s school culture. Engineering and computer science are not niche interests here. They are the default. As a...

San Jose sits at the geographic and historical center of Silicon Valley. Consequently, its public high schools reflect that identity directly. Lynbrook High School, part of the Fremont Union High School District, ranks 10th among all high schools in California. It also ranks 86th nationally, according to U.S. News...