Great College Advice

A friend of mine, another parent, recently hit me up for some free advice. Knowing my expertise, he wanted to know what his daughter could do this summer to keep ahead of the curve in the college admissions process.
So here is my Top Ten List of things students can do during the summer to [...]

I wrote a guest commentary that appeared in the online edition of the Denver Post yesterday. It’s about the high cost of tuition, with special attention given to tuition prices in the state of Colorado.
It’s clear from reading the comments that many readers misunderstood my central point: that the citizens of Colorado cannot [...]

The Universal College Application is gaining some traction.  The rival to the Common Application, the Universal Common Application has 11 more universities that are part of its network.
Those colleges are:
Assumption College
Bradley University
Gonzaga University
Harcum College
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Hood College
University of Miami (FL)
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rochester
Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology
Westminster College (MO)
It’s interesting to [...]

I learned today that the Universal College Application now has over 60 institutions that accept its online application. This is a good start, and builds upon momentum that I wrote about a while back. I’m glad that the Common Application’s monopoly on online submissions may be ending. And further developments from CollegeZapps [...]

I wrote a post a couple of days ago about reversals of policy at the Common Application, and I mentioned that the Common App now has some competition from the Universal Common Application. This upstart is not really an upstart at all. Actually, it is operated by the same folks who provide the [...]

Today the members of the Common Application removed the straight jacket they had previously imposed upon students. This decision is a victory for students, in that it allows them to retain control of their applications and make slight modifications to the forms submitted to each college or university to which they apply. As such, [...]