This is the first in a series of arti­cles high­light­ing places you might have seen (and some you might have not seen) dur­ing the typ­i­cal student-led col­lege tour, that are all wor­thy of a sec­ond visit.
The Library.
A Shangra-Li for all things writ­ten, recorded, or doc­u­mented, the typ­i­cal prospec­tive stu­dent should not dis­count the qual­ity of a […]

If you're a high school junior, chances are your inbox and mail­box have been filled with let­ters from the mar­ket­ing depart­ments of col­leges across the coun­try. I also received those one page let­ters. And if you do not feel like wait­ing until the sum­mer before your senior year to fig­ure out whether you should apply […]

As Eliz­a­beth men­tioned, Feb­ru­ary is a month filled with oppor­tu­ni­ties for bud­ding rela­tion­ships (col­lege accep­tance let­ters) and heart­break. (sigh…rejection let­ters).
In some cases, these same let­ters may force some soon-to-be grad­u­at­ing high schools seniors to revisit a ques­tion they once con­fi­dently answered months before pen­ning rough draft per­sonal state­ments. What's more, the answer to this question […]

Ulti­mately, I was very happy with my final choice—though hon­estly, I know that I would have been happy with many of the schools to which I applied. After all of the stress of apply­ing to schools, we some­times for­get that it can also be very dif­fi­cult to hold the decision-making power. Here are some point­ers that I learned from my own experience.

If you're fac­ing the dreaded-yet-necessary beme­hoth of an appli­ca­tion known as FAFSA (the Free Appli­ca­tion for Fed­eral Stu­dent Aid), you prob­a­bly have some ques­tions. For many peo­ple, fil­ing for taxes is a sim­pler process than ensur­ing that the FAFSA is com­pleted accu­rately and thor­oughly.
The cum­ber­some umpteen-long FAFSA appli­ca­tion process has been an easy tar­get for […]

The Los Ange­les Times ran an arti­cle, where fash­ion colum­nist Adam Tschorn inter­viewed Neil Patrick Har­ris from “How I Met your Mother” who dis­cussed how much he loves his Paul Smith and Dolce & Gab­bana suits, because they fit and flat­ter his tall and nar­row frame like no other. The arti­cle reminded me of the […]

Mil­lions of high school seniors await the wave of col­lege accep­tance and denial let­ters this spring. For most, the often gru­el­ing appli­ca­tion process is over, allow­ing for a healthy case of seniori­tis to set in. Once those let­ters arrive, how­ever, a whole new sea­son of plan­ning and decision-making begins. Pay­ing for col­lege.
Many an eager applicant […]

On Thurs­day, the New York Times ran an arti­cle describ­ing a grow­ing trend among senior cit­i­zens: sleep overs! After spend­ing the day­time acquaint­ing them­selves with the facil­i­ties, retire­ment com­mu­ni­ties are offer­ing prospec­tive senior res­i­dents the oppor­tu­nity to take in evening social events and the oppor­tu­nity to spend the night. For senior cit­i­zens, this is a […]

A recent NYT arti­cle dis­cusses con­tro­versy over the down­sides and ben­e­fits of too many honor soci­eties in high schools. I look at the arti­cle through the lens of my own experience.

Not every early deci­sion appli­ca­tion to a col­lege comes from a place of utmost cer­tainty. I applied early to a school largely due to pres­sure that every­one else was doing it so I had to in order to remain com­pet­i­tive. I didn't get in–and that turned out okay.