13 Essentials for Your Dorm Room
I vividly remember moving into my freshman dorm. My roommate – a stranger at the time but a best friend now – was unpacking her things while we laughed hysterically. She’d brought caution tape (“For a theme party!”), steak knives (we never figured that one out), and enough canned soup to feed an army. Fast […]
New Info Released About the SAT Going Digital
As we’ve discussed in a previous blog post, the SAT is going fully digital. While this is a change most people saw coming, it is going to be a massive one. The class of 2024 will be the last class to experience the SAT that we know today, and the class of 2025 will have […]
Still Undecided? Here Are 9 Weird College Majors You’ve Probably Never Considered (But Probably, Totally Should)
I was an English major. My best friends majored in things like Biomedical Engineering, Human & Organizational Development, Political Science, and Biology. I have a deep respect for each and every one of those areas of study – but there’s a lot more out there than people realize. If you’re still undecided and nothing seems […]
Five Reasons You Should Be Visiting Your College’s Career Center
Whether you’re searching for an internship after your freshman year or hunting for a job before graduation, figuring out your career path is hard. The career center on campus solely exists to make this less hard. If this simple fact still hasn’t sold you on taking a stroll to the career center, here are a […]
Seven Tips for Choosing Your College Application Essay Topic
There’s normal writer’s block, and then there’s looking at blank Word document, trying to write your college essay writer’s block… and oh man, the second one is intense. It feels like SO MUCH is riding on the quality of your college essay, so it’s no surprise that choosing a topic is one of the trickiest […]
How “Test Optional” Policies Have Impacted Admissions
We’ve written previously about our thoughts when it comes to “test optional” policies (which have become much more popular and widespread throughout the COVID-19 pandemic). Now that we’ve experienced two rounds of pandemic admissions cycles, however, we’ve got some cold hard numbers to analyze. How has the admissions process been impacted by these test optional […]
Eat This, Not That: Brain Food Edition
When Hippocrates said “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food,” he wasn’t joking. Recent studies have shown that certain kinds of foods can exacerbate a variety of issues, including ADHD, anxiety, and depression, just to name a few. Whether you’re fueling up for a long day of studying or simply trying to […]
What To Do With Your College List When Your Test Scores Go Up (Or Down)
You’ve been carefully crafting your college list for a few months – or, for a lot of students, a few years – and you’ve just gotten a new set of test scores back. There was a pretty big change from the scores you had when you created your college list… so does that mean your list should […]
12 Things Real Students [and Former Students] Wish They Had Known Before Starting High School
While it’s important to live life without regrets… let’s face it, we all have a few. (In fact, I asked a friend what she wishes she’d known before starting high school and she screamed, “I wish I knew to TRY! It’s my biggest regret of my life! I never TRIED!”) Until someone invents a time […]
Talking to Your Kids About Ukraine
After hearing the stories and seeing the images coming out from Ukraine over the past couple of weeks, most of us have felt at a loss for words. Most of us have had trouble understanding what we are seeing and watching. And, of course, most of us are adults… so how do we think younger […]