How many solic­i­ta­tions have you received in the mail to apply for such-and-such uni­ver­sity or check out a sneak pre­view day at so-and-so col­lege? How many shiny, slick brochures with smil­ing faces and gleam­ing build­ings have grazed your front door stoop? How many catchy "get a degree now" sub­ject lines have popped up in your inbox? […]

Web humor seems to spew out of the sub­ject of col­lege, from CollegeHumor's prank wars to PartySchoolTexts.com to fake Face­book col­lege groups, but rarely does a funny site poke fun at the insti­tu­tions them­selves. Rife with admin­is­tra­tion bureau­cracy and run by self-proclaimed intel­lec­tu­als, col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties are surely worth a jab for being the squarish […]

It's unfor­tu­nate, yet true. Four years of col­lege study won't nec­es­sar­ily afford you a col­lege degree. The first two years of college–whether at a uni­ver­sity or com­mu­nity college–tend to encom­pass "gen­eral edu­ca­tion" (GE) classes, con­sist­ing of lan­guage, writ­ing, speech, math and other basic require­ments before pur­su­ing upper divi­sion courses toward a spe­cific major. Some students […]

Okay, wait-listed may not be worse than get­ting rejected from your dream school flat out, but the uncer­tainty is nerve-wracking, nonethe­less. As accep­tance, rejec­tion and wait­ing list let­ters pour out from admis­sions depart­ments from col­leges across the coun­try, many high school stu­dents are wait­ing, anx­iously stalk­ing the fam­ily mail­box. Mailper­sons, beware. This year (as in […]