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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...

November 14, 2014

Inside Higher Ed, one of higher education鈥檚 leading news outlets, recently conducted a nationwide survey of college admission directors. The newly-released results are shocking, and reveal a profession entirely...

October 6, 2014

In Back to the Future II, Marty McFly travels from 1985 to 2015 and is shocked to learn that a bottle of Pepsi costs $50. With Pepsi bottles sitting...

August 26, 2014

More is better聽 Applicants often feel that more is inherently better when it comes to their application file and proceed to send along everything from editorials penned for the...

August 12, 2014

Two caveats, before we dish out the advice. First, as readers of our blog know, we do not advocate over-focusing on highly selective schools. Yet we also recognize that...

July 30, 2014

In the past few years, and increasing number of selective colleges and universities have adopted test-optional policies, no longer requiring students to submit their standardized test scores.聽 Institutions eliminating...

July 23, 2014

We frequently receive questions from students and families in reference to PayScale.com鈥檚 new college rankings, which sorts institutions on the basis of a calculated 30-year return on investment (ROI)....

July 14, 2014

Attempts to navigate the world of private college scholarships often result in students and families left adrift in the proverbial mile-wide, inch-deep ocean of cyberspace. Let the following tips...

June 17, 2014

Listening to the mainstream media, one might conclude that getting into college has never been a more competitive or harrowing venture. With the exception of a scattering of hyper-selective...

June 5, 2014

In recent posts, we urged students to approach the college admission process with a 鈥渂ig picture鈥� perspective and to consider long-term goals before 鈥渂reaking the bank鈥� on an expensive...

May 7, 2014

So much misinformation about the college admissions process is transmitted through the 鈥測ou have to do x, y, and z鈥� admonitions of peers, relatives, media outlets, and message boards....

March 29, 2014

Prior to the 1920s, attendance at a top-flight prep school was nothing less than a prerequisite for admission into an Ivy League college.

February 6, 2014

In the throes of the admissions frenzy, it is hard to be face-to-face with a college representative and ask anything other than a thinly veiled version of 鈥淎re you...

December 31, 2013

With FAFSA season fast approaching, you no longer have the luxury of long-term financial planning for college unless you happen to stumble upon聽a 1985 Delorean聽fully-loaded with a flux capacitor...

December 26, 2013

Deferred. 聽It鈥檚 a word that every early applicant dreads. Neither accepted nor denied, deferred students often feel as if they have been banished to college admissions purgatory, sentenced to...

December 20, 2013

The lure of an elite undergraduate institution is undoubtedly very powerful.聽 And if you have the credentials and money to comfortably matriculate, by all means鈥� However, if finances are...