鈥淚nnovative and invaluable鈥se this book as your college lifeline.鈥�
— Lynn O'Shaughnessy
Nationally Recognized College Expert
March 26, 2018
鈥淗olistic admissions, applications rise, demonstrated interest, SAT goodbyes鈥︹�� There are enough hot-button issues taking center stage in the admissions world in 2018 to add a verse to Billy Joel鈥檚...
June 15, 2017
Let鈥檚 play a game akin to the Guess your Age/Weight booth at a local county fair. If we鈥檙e wrong, you get the cheaply-made stuffed animal of your choice. Ready?...
April 17, 2017
Flowers blooming, the crack (or ping) of the baseball bat, the storing away of sweaters and jeans and the end of hibernation for piles of t-shirts and shorts鈥擜pril is...
March 29, 2017
After battling through the epic journey of the college application process, with all its emotional twists and turns, the torturous anticipation, the potential heaven of acceptance or hell of...
March 5, 2017
At risk of sounding like famed 60 Minutes resident curmudgeon, Andy Rooney, the world has changed drastically in so many ways since 1986鈥攍andlines have been replaced by cell phones,...
December 15, 2016
You likely vowed to start planning for your son or daughter鈥檚 education back when he/she was only a baby. Your intention was to open up a 529 Plan and...
October 7, 2016
When we learn about Civics and Government in 8th grade, we are presented with the high-minded ideals of democracy鈥攖he Bill of Rights, our masterfully designed system of checks and...
September 27, 2016
The FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) is generally understood by applicants and their families to be the most important step in financing a college education. Using a...
April 8, 2016
November 11, 2015
In the early 1970s the U.S. auto industry received warnings from economic experts鈥攊f they continued to focus on the wrong thing, Japanese car companies would soon put them out...
September 1, 2015
As private college counselors, we are well-versed in the criticisms of school-based counseling.聽 Unavailable, inexperienced, misinformed鈥攖hese are the words that some within our industry often use to describe the...
June 18, 2015
For many students and their families, attending a liberal arts college sounds like an expensive proposition. After all, liberal arts schools are known for their small class size, available...
May 19, 2015
Pursuing your entire undergraduate degree abroad may sound like an extravagance reserved for the jet-setting upper-class, yet going to college in a foreign country can actually make excellent economic...
May 1, 2015
We begin with an analogy. Three racehorses: Cream of the Crop, Above Average, and Run of the Mill are selected by three trainers of varying quality to prepare for...
April 7, 2015
An iconic year, even by the standards of its iconic decade, 1969 teems with momentous events in America鈥檚 cultural history: the moon landing, Woodstock, the Amazin鈥� Mets, and the...
February 19, 2015
“Buridan’s ass” is a well-known (and unfortunately named) philosophical paradox where a famished donkey sits equidistant between two similarly delicious bales of hay and, unable to find a rational...
January 27, 2015
We鈥檒l save the drama鈥攅ven in an era of bloated tuition costs, ballooning student loan debt, and a weakened American job market, the answer to the general question of whether...
January 19, 2015
Particular adjectives frequently accompany sound bites and headlines on the topic of student loan debt鈥斺�渃rippling,鈥� 鈥渂urdensome,鈥� and 鈥渙verwhelming,鈥� just to name a few. Student loan debt is a 鈥渃risis,鈥�...
December 16, 2014
While honors programs have existed in one form or another since the GI bill first brought an influx of talented but cost-conscious students to public universities in the post-war...
November 24, 2014
Walk into any Starbucks, Barnes and Noble, or public library around the holiday season and at least a few tables will be occupied by teen/middle-age dyads, with the older...
