鈥淚nnovative and invaluable鈥se this book as your college lifeline.鈥
— Lynn O'Shaughnessy
Nationally Recognized College Expert
July 14, 2026
Chemistry occupies a singular position in the sciences. It is the discipline that bridges physics and biology, the foundation beneath medicine, materials science, environmental research, and the pharmaceutical industry,...
Public health is one of the fastest-growing undergraduate majors in the United States, driven by rising student awareness of population health, healthcare systems, health equity, and the role of...
July 13, 2026
Statistics is one of the fastest-growing undergraduate majors in the United States, driven by the expansion of data-intensive industries across technology, finance, healthcare, government, and the sciences. A statistics...
Psychology is one of the most popular undergraduate majors in the United States. American colleges and universities award roughly 130,000 bachelor鈥檚 degrees in the discipline each year, placing it...
July 10, 2026
Engineering is the discipline through which scientific knowledge is converted into the systems, materials, machines, and infrastructure that define modern life. It is not a single field but a...
Electrical engineering is the field that builds the digital world. It encompasses the design of semiconductors, integrated circuits, communication networks, signal processing systems, power grids, embedded controllers, and the...
Biochemistry is the chemistry of life, the discipline that explains how organisms build and break down molecules, how genes encode proteins, how enzymes catalyze reactions, and how cells communicate...
Civil engineering is the oldest of the engineering disciplines, and in many respects the one most deeply embedded in the physical fabric of society. It is the field responsible...
Computer science is the defining discipline of the 21st-century economy. The systematic study of computation, meaning algorithms, data structures, operating systems, programming languages, artificial intelligence, machine learning, networks, and...
July 9, 2026
Johns Hopkins runs one of the most active and self-conscious admissions offices in American higher education. Over the past five years it has reinstated standardized testing for its Homewood...
The University of Georgia is one of the more legible institutional case studies in American public higher education. It is the flagship of a state-mandated, scholarship-financed system; it holds...
Georgia Tech entered the 2020s as the rare highly selective university whose national reputation was climbing about as fast as its application volume. Over the five cycles from Fall...
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign sits in an unusual place among the nation鈥檚 large public flagships. It is a Big Ten research university with a top-ranked engineering school, a...
Notre Dame is a private Catholic research university with an admissions story that, until recently, looked steadier than most of its peers. Application volume drifted upward without spiking. The...
The University of Washington is the public flagship of the Pacific Northwest, a Tier 1 research university with roughly $1.9 billion in annual research expenditures, a medical school that...
Williams runs a peculiar economy. A college of 2,100 undergraduates in a small Berkshires town competes annually for cross-admits against Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, sits at or near the...
Dartmouth has spent the last five years doing something none of its Ivy League peers has done: reversing the test-optional policy adopted during the pandemic. The Fall 2025 entering...
Few schools have changed their position in the American admissions market as visibly as Boston University. A quarter century ago, BU admitted roughly half of its applicants and competed...
The 2025-26 admissions cycle saw the nine undergraduate University of California campuses collectively attract 250,000+ applications. This is a double-digit increase from four years prior. Logic would suggest that...
June 30, 2026
Biology has always been the gateway science. It is the major that leads to medical school, to graduate research, to careers in biotechnology and public health, and increasingly to...
