There is a New England-like campus out there, complete with brick buildings, in a small town of Kentucky named Berea! Have you heard of it? Berea is getting quite a bit of attention lately, and recently Tamar Lewin wrote an article on it in The New York Times. Because it is one of the nation’s [...]
The Education Department published a report this spring entitled Parent Expectations and Planning for College. This report is based on survey questions answered by parents of both middle school and high school students about their children and planning for college.
As you seniors begin the process of applying to college this year, you might want a look at the playing field. You are entering an era of record selectivity in top-tiered colleges, colleges such as Stanford, Yale, Harvard, Middlebury, and Duke. Other colleges with very low admittance percentages this past year are Princeton, the University [...]
Ann Pleshette Murphy of USA Weekend wrote last April about new ways to prepare for the SAT. Here are the three suggestions she made.