Many of your students use the U.S. News & World Reports Best College Rankings each year to decide which Colleges to apply to. How are these rankings determined and what criteria goes into creating them? Summer Discovery and U.S. News & World Report will host a webinar that answers these questions. U.S. News Education Managing Read More

If you want to make a better college list, don’t limit your potential list of colleges to just schools you have heard of. There are over 1,600 four-year US colleges-there is no reason to start off with a short list of five institutions. Having a larger list of colleges opens up opportunities you haven’t even Read More

This is a question you might get asked by your students. Lee Bierer of College Admissions Strategies wrote a great blog piece below that can help your students answer that question: Being deferred is NOT the same as being rejected. It may feel that way for students, but this year with a record number of Read More

The majority of colleges and universities in the United States accept most of the students who apply each year. However, there are institutions that are very selective, admitting a small share of those who apply. 24/7 did an analysis of admissions data from the National Center for Education Statistics and their index was based on Read More

There area many career paths a students can take after High School. College is the most popular path that parents and Counselors ingrain in their children/students as they go through the education system but for various reasons many students decide College isn’t for them. Those can range from the cost of College, to a lack Read More

Not everyone has heard of CLEP, but the 50-year-old program is gaining traction with high school students. The College Level Examination Program (CLEP), offered by The College Board, is a series of 30+ credit-bearing exams which test learners of all ages on college freshman-level subjects; passing scores on the exams are accepted for credit by Read More

How do they get to know a college from afar when most colleges have suspended all on-campus visits through the fall semester? How do students, families, and college counselors get a better feel, vibe or insight into campus life directly from the current student community? Typically, when you choose a book or movie to read Read More

Google the phrase “assembly line education” and you’ll see that, for decades, folks have likened our education system to an assembly line in a factory. In some ways, this is a very useful metaphor. It highlights the regimented way that we expect students to develop, setting up a fair critique of our education system as Read More

Are your students forgetting things? Missing deadlines? That’s not uncommon. We see this every year. On the college essay. And we can’t blame COVID. Kids are kids. They need reminders during normal times, too. To address this issue, we give our students a schedule before we start working together. It helps keep them on track, so they don’t Read More

Unless you’ve had to fumble your own way through the college search process recently (as a student or as a parent), you might be tempted to discount stories of students graduating with crazy-high student debt as silly financial decisions made by naive folks. After all (you might ask), how could someone come out of college Read More