December 30, 2020

With the 2019-2020 application season winding down, here are seven surprising and thought-provoking college application essay or short answer prompts.

November 13, 2020 

With Thanksgiving approaching, here are three things I am grateful for regarding college education in the United States.

September 15, 2020

Thanks to Betty Bodenweiser of Foundation For Learning in Morristown, NJ for letting me share this article which appeared in her September 2020 newsletter.

Our children take away a lot of new information and life skills during the normal school year and through their after school activities. During these times when social distancing, remote learning, and other safety restrictions are in place, how do we help our children learn and practice the social skills they need?  

September 11, 2020 

Video blog post for high school students with an online college interview. 

August 14, 2020

Video blog post for students who have written a college application essay which is over the maximum word count and needs shortening.

July 3, 2020 

In my last blog post, I began to address how I expect COVID-19 will impact the college experience in the 2020-2021 school year. In this post, I discuss other ways the college experience is likely to be impacted.

June 30, 2020 

The fall semester will be unique because of COVID-19 While every college will be a little different, Here's what I expect you will find. 

May 21, 2020

Here's a summary of some college planning activities that have changes becauseof Coronairus and how you might respond. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.