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...

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You've probably heard about the handful of colleges that have reverted to requiring the SAT or ACT for admission. My friends at Compass...

"The data are in: we are not good at predicting what will make us happy. This is known and documented. So as we watch another class of...

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

The good folks at College Kickstart maintain and update a blog listing each year's admission cycle notification dates and statistics. If...

My good friend and former colleague Sara Purviance of Mindset College Collective shares some good advice on making a low-stress entry...

Our friends at Compass Prep have provided a helpful new guide to making sense of the new digital SAT that replaces paper tests starting...

I couldn't agree more with Brennan Barnard's latest blog post suggesting good habits for those in the college admission cycle this year--...

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...

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...

If you know a senior applying to colleges this year, here is some advice on what follows all that energy leading up to the celebratory...

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...

Post 2 of 3 (Read Part 1) Writing College Admissions Essays: Who Cares? You Do Anne Elrod Whitney, Ph.D. When you let your emotions tell...

Anne Elrod Whitney is a brilliant teacher of teachers of writing at Penn State. Anne and I were elementary school classmates from grades...