Get­ting into the right classes can be quite a dif­fi­cult task in col­lege, espe­cially in your first cou­ple of years, when you do not have reg­is­tra­tion pri­or­ity.  Since you do not get to reg­is­ter first, some­times you will find your­self in a class with a dif­fi­cult pro­fes­sor.
This is also the case when it comes to […]

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 […]

Once upon time, Pell Grants, fed­eral loans from the gov­ern­ment, were a great asset to help stu­dents pay for their col­lege edu­ca­tion. How­ever, Kevin Carey, a pol­icy direc­tor at Edu­ca­tion Sec­tor, a D.C.-based think tank argues that this is no longer the case. In a recent arti­cle, he claims Pell Grants are not as beneficial […]

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.

Jacob, I totally agree with you on the "fail­ure" front. Hav­ing just grad­u­ated in May (and in school all over again in a school), I think a lot about the choices I made and did not make dur­ing my under­grad­u­ate years. There are cer­tainly things that I would have done dif­fer­ently and maybe even wish […]