February 16, 2020 

Babson College is a private business college with a focus on entrepreneurship in Wellesley, MA, only 10 minutes from Boston. The college has 2300 undergraduates with an average class size of between 20 and 25 students and no TAs teaching. Classes are capped at 40 students.

November 6, 2019 

Curry College is a small, private college in Milton, Massachusetts with about 2100 students. The majority of the students are from Massachusetts. The rest come from 35 states and 21 countries.

October 8, 2019 

I visited Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts as part of the Higher Education Consultants Association Conference in June. Dean has about 1200 undergrads. About 80% of students pursue a Bachelor’s degree and about 20% pursue an Associate’s degree.

August 22, 2019 

Endicott College is a private college with about 3400 undergraduate students.  Students do 3 internships: one 3-week internship typically in January of the freshman year, one 3-week internship typically in January of the sophomore year and one semester long internship typically in the first semester of the senior year. 

June 27, 2019 

In the spring, Jessica Snover of Lasell College admissions spoke at a Higher Education Consultants Association meeting in NJ.  Lasell College is a private college offering professionally-oriented degrees, located on 53 acres in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. Lasell has 1700 undergrads with 84% of them living on campus.

May 29, 2019 

Siena College is a Catholic college of about 3100 undergraduates in Loudonville, New York, a suburb of Albany. 

March 22, 2019

Florida State University (FSU) is a Florida public university with about 33K undergraduate students in the state capital Tallahassee, a small city in the northern part of the state.

February 12, 2019 

Tulane University is a private, residential, research university in New Orleans, Louisiana with about 6800 full-time undergraduates from all over the country and the world. The location in a big city, known for great food, night life, jazz music and interesting architecture is big draw, especially since the school has a campus.

January 2, 2019 

In the fall, I visited the College of Charleston, a public liberal arts and sciences college with about ten thousand undergrads in beautiful, downtown Charleston, South Carolina. 

June 5, 2018 

RPI, established in 1864, has about 6300 undergraduate students on a 275-acre campus in Troy, NY.

May 15, 2018 

Bard College is a liberal arts and sciences college of just under 2000 undergraduates in a park-like campus of about 1000 acres in the Hudson Valley, about 90 minutes from New York City by car. Read this blog to learn what makes Bard College different. 

May 10, 2018

New York State does not have a flagship university. Instead, it has four University Centers. Last week, I visited one of these University Centers, Binghamton University. Binghamton University is a research university that boasts “excellence and value.” It has about 13,600 undergraduate students.

April 26, 2018 

Merrimack College is a private Roman Catholic college in the Augustinian tradition in North Andover, Massachusetts. It is a career-focused, personalized, success-driven college that wants to "make good students great."

March 6, 2018 

Highlights of what's new at Johnson and Wales since my January 2014 visit.

December 20, 2017

In the late Fall, I attended a luncheon for independent college admissions consultants with Lauren Sefton, Associate Director of Admission from Rhodes College. Here is some of what Lauren shared with us.

November 7, 2017

Temple University is a public university with its main campus in North Philadelphia.

October 23, 2017 

Marist College seemed very focused on hands-on practical skills, internships, and jobs after graduation, for all majors. 

August 17, 2017 

I hope these tips will help your children or students get through the first semester of college with good grades, good health, new friends, not too much homesickness, and no regrets.

July 17, 2017

Getting into the Rutgers-Newark 7-year medical program is highly competitive. The first three years are spent at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Caldwell University, Stockton University, Rutgers-Newark, The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), Montclair State University or Stevens Institute of Technology and the last four years are spent at Rutgers-Newark. Fifty-two students were admitted into this 7-year program this year, across the seven schools.

June 14, 2017 

The Rutgers University Honors College, which is two years old, is not to be confused with the Rutgers honors programs. The Honors College takes the top 7% of each school (except nursing) from Rutgers New Brunswick. The Honors College brings together students from across disciplines, creating an interdisciplinary experience.