We expect students who get into the best, highly selective colleges are well-prepared and will be great college students. This is not always the case...
Tag - Choosing A College
Are We Judging Colleges Correctly?
The Obama Administration recently launched the College Scorecard which helps students and their parents evaluate a searchable list of colleges to...
How to Probe for the Right College Fit
It is stressful applying to college. The application process is hard enough, but before you even get started on that, you have to figure out where...
What Guides Students to a College?
Today the best students with the best scores and the best grades have such wide choice among colleges. The sky’s the limit. The little known secret...
How to Know if a College is a Good Fit
Students research colleges and go to interviews. They take tours and visit with admission people on or off campus. And, they ask all sorts of...
Regulations on Private For-profit Colleges Struck Down
A federal judge struck down the “gainful employment regulation” in an Obama administration education bill. This regulation was conceived to penalize...
The Best College Choice
By now most of you have chosen the college you will attend next fall. You’ve survived the application process, endured rejections and wait lists...
The Best College for You
Still wondering which college is best for you if you have several acceptances? Probably the best pick is a college that gives you a quality education...
Be Moneywise: Choose the Right College to Attend
What you should know and be aware of, too, is that a college debt, for both you and/or your parents, can be very burdensome in your life, affecting...
How to Measure One College against Another
Fall!—beautiful colors and squash–and time for the college application process to begin in earnest.
