Last week, Gawker ran an arti­cle cit­ing the top ten tra­di­tional uni­ver­si­ties that have the high­est stu­dent debt. The data was pulled by a recent study by the Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion, which actu­ally revealed that the top three insti­tu­tions with high­est stu­dent debt are actu­ally for-profit schools, which are often crit­i­cized for not lead­ing to lucrative-enough […]

No, uni­ver­si­ties aren't far­ing a sud­den out­burst of a neu­ro­log­i­cal dis­or­ders, but they're def­i­nitely on high alert. As these warm, musky days of August roll for­ward, col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties across the coun­try are whip­ping out the pop-up tents, set­ting up check-in booths and pass­ing out pre-stuffed fold­ers to fresh­men, new grad­u­ate stu­dents and other fresh […]

I have always con­sid­ered July 4th as summer's hump day; The sum­mer days and nights seem to move at a much faster pace after this national hol­i­day. And given that July 4th falls twenty days after the sum­mer sol­stice sum­mer days should feel as if they move faster. Dur­ing my high school sum­mers, the July […]

While the free­dom of sum­mer vaca­tion makes this a log­i­cal time to hit up some cam­puses, the mad rush from quad to quad can also be a lit­tle over­whelm­ing. Here are some tips from the experts.

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Col­lege accep­tances and rejections

Take a look at the list of items below and see if you can spot the pat­tern: (FYI, this is not a pilot test for a future BG-style SAT exam !) Loca­tion Aver­age class size Per­cent­age of stu­dents who grad­u­ate in four years Con­sor­tium mem­ber­ship Avail­able majors Finan­cial Aid If you have not fig­ured out the pat­tern by now, […]

As a 2nd-semester high school senior drift­ing through the flora and fauna of April, May and June with a col­lege accep­tance let­ter in hand, school was the last thing on my mind. Sure, I was mildly inspired by my final flower-box project for Ceram­ics 1, and I had glimpsed the smiley-face bul­letin board post­ings remind­ing all […]

The Super Six Con­sid­er­a­tions for Pick­ing the "Right" Col­lege? Maybe they are, maybe they aren't. Either way, these six cri­te­ria are all impor­tant fac­tors to con­sider when decid­ing on a col­lege. Start with these and you may just make a pretty darn good choice when it comes to college.

How to turn that NO into a YES (sort of): Reject­ing Col­lege Rejections.