The Wall Street Journal came up with a neat trick: asking college presidents to write essays from the application to their own college. Tough assignment!. The results were reported the
Jacques Steinberg of the New York Times reports today that Top Colleges See Little Fall in Freshman Commitments. Unsurprisingly, students offered admission to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Pomona are accepting
When I visit college and university campuses, I try to search for a few distinguishing features that will help me remember what makes this particular institution stand out from its
Last week I was able to visit Menlo College in Atherton, California. I was part of a tour organized by the Independent Educational Consultants Association. Our tour began with a
I visited the University of San Francisco last week. It was a beautiful, sunny day, but the wind was brisk. Despite the chill in late April, I was able to
What’s the Number One Party School? Most likely, it’s whatever college or university your student attends. Sometimes my clients (or rather, the parents of my clients) ask me to find
Today I spent a couple of hours at Stanford University. It was my first visit to the campus, and I was part of an organized tour for college counselors. We
The New York Times has had a slew of interesting articles about college admissions lately. This one, about the odds of being accepted as a transfer student to some of
I spend about 20% of my time touring around the country getting acquainted with colleges. Millsaps College had been on my list for quite some time, in part because Loren
