Living in a society that is hyper-focused on selective college admissions, the moment a student receives an acceptance letter from their dream school can feel the victorious end of a journey, the moment when the film credits roll and a triumphant score begins to play. Of course, there’s also...
Read MoreWhile researching prospective colleges, students and parents encounter a dizzying whirlwind of data and information. It can be so overwhelming that sometimes very important statistics, particularly those that may feel somewhat abstract, end up largely ignored. For whatever reason, stats related to faculty accessibility often find themselves in this...
Read MoreIt is quite normal for parents and teens to begin their college search without a great deal of a hard data. A top student might be “Blank College” material while a less accomplished teen may be better suited for “Blank State.” These intuitions may be based on the admissions...
Read MoreThe decision-makers at the Common Application have officially announced that the Common App essay prompt menu for the upcoming 2021-22 admissions cycle will be slightly different than in 2020-21. In the opinion of the College Transitions staff, the choice for nothing more than minor tinkering was a wise one....
Read MoreThe University of Virginia issued a press release to celebrate their inclusion in College Transitions’ new guidebook Colleges Worth Your Money as well as their being named Money Magazine‘s second-best-value public university. We are pleased to continue to recommend UVA as being one of the nation’s top higher education...
Read MoreWe were honored to have both of our books—The Enlightened College Applicant and Colleges Worth Your Money included on Road2College’s list of The Best College Guidebooks. The Road2College staff cited Colleges Worth Your Money as helping students to think “ten steps ahead” in the admissions process and praised The Enlightened...
Read MoreFor many teens, the college admissions process has become one of the most stress-inducing experiences of their young lives. For some, the rewards are worth the sacrifice of applying to a dozen of schools, composing countless supplemental essays, and retaking the SATs over and over, hoping that their Superscore...
Read MoreIf you are an American student interested in pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Europe, one of the natural first questions might be: What language will my professors speak? Of course, if you are considering studying in the U.K. & Ireland where 97% of the population speaks English, you have...
Read More
