Campus Visits
Campus visits are important to college admissions process. Through visits students can explore many different resources available in a given college, learn about campus life, academic offerings, financial aid, and find out about its geographic setting. In short, students can get a feel about the college’s dynamics and understand if it would be a right fit ... Read More >
The Importance of “Leadership” and “Community Service” in College Application Process
In a holistic college application review in selective institutions, in addition to student's academic performance, other non-academic factors such as community service, extracurricular activities, leadership roles are taken into consideration. These non-academic engagements have become important attributes in the decision making process. As a result, ... Read More >
Colleges Take Steps to Cut Tuition
Tuition Resets lately have become new strategic undertakings by some private colleges. It involves price cutting and adopting lower tuition rates, and in most cases it also includes a tuition freeze for a few years to improve affordability. The colleges that have implemented a successful tuition resets in the past couple of years include: Utica College, ... Read More >
The Coalition Application
College bound students nowadays can choose to apply to colleges by a new application form. The new platform application, known as the Coalition Application platform was developed by the Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success members, a group of more than 110 colleges and universities that include the Ivy League schools and other prestigious ... Read More >