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College Planning

College Application Strategies and College Admissions

College Application Strategies and College Admissions

Summer is Primetime for Writing College Application Essays

Summer is Primetime for Writing College Application Essays

As the school year winds down and summer season begins, it’s important for rising seniors and paren...
Digital SAT vs ACT: Which Should You Take?

Digital SAT vs ACT: Which Should You Take?

Choosing whether to take the SAT or ACT for college admissions has always been tough. But now that ...

College Rankings

13 Tips to Prepare for Law School

13 Tips to Prepare for Law School

Do you want to be a lawyer? In the United States, you need to graduate from a 4-year college and then go to law school if you want to practice law. What is the best way to prepare for law school? What should you be doing in your undergraduate years to make yourself the most ...

College Search

The Smallest Colleges in the United States

The Smallest Colleges in the United States

You might be interested in going to a small college, but just how small is "small," exactly? In general, schools that are considered "small" have fewer than 5,000 students in total. However, quite a few schools are actu...

Graduate Admissions

Selecting a Grad School Admissions Consultant

Selecting a Grad School Admissions Consultant

Seven years ago, I wrote a blog post by the same title that offered a framework for selecting a graduate school admissions consultant.  As a former Admissions and Financial Aid Officer at Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Science...

Online Colleges

Wesleyan president discusses why he ended legacy admissions

Wesleyan president discusses why he ended legacy admissions

When Michael Roth announced two weeks ago that Wesleyan University was doing away with legacy admissions preferences, he braced himself for a bombardment of criticism from alumni. None came. The president of the high...