Do prestige and selectivity equal great undergraduate teaching?

"It’s called pre-professional pressure..."

It might actually be *easier* to get into college than it was 10 years ago, despite the online panic.

College Kickstart has compiled and published the University of California system admit rates for 2024. At the link, you can break down...

Human nature and probability.

There's a lot of talk about using ChatGPT, as it gets more sophisticated, as a constructive tool. I had a wild thought and asked ChatGPT...

Reflection, personal growth and confidence through 650-word mini memoirs.

One college already costs $100,000 per year; exploring affordability and value.

Prestige and pre-professional degrees are not necessarily guarantees of a future job

There are better ways to spend time in high school than paid research opportunities and "branding" efforts.

College Kickstart is compiling 2024 application cycle admission rates and links to full reports as colleges make them available. Follow...

This new report from the National Center for Fair and Open Testing looks at the numbers behind test-optional college admission policies....

Whitney Soule, the wise Dean of Admission at the University of Pennsylvania, offers some valuable thoughts on keeping the pressure off...

As I've mentioned elsewhere this fall, the FAFSA application for federal student aid is being updated this year, and was delayed from the...

I'm grateful (see what I did there) to Sara for sharing these timely thoughts about gratitude. Sara was my colleague for several years,...

Since ChatGPT created a massive cultural paradigm shift last year, one of the hottest topics and biggest questions in college admission...

If you scroll through my blog archives, you'll see plenty of articles and commentary I've shared about the deeply flawed US News College...

The conversation about college in the US continues to feel fraught with uncertainty, with changing admission practices post-pandemic,...

Here's some good news in the college admission world amid an increasingly confusing standardized testing landscape. Pomona College, one...

Post 3 of 3 (Read Pt 1 & Pt 2) Writing an Effective College Admissions Essay: Honesty is the Best Policy Anne Elrod Whitney, Ph.D. My...