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.

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

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...

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...

My friend and former colleague Sara Purviance is a smart and compassionate counselor, with a background in admission at Colorado College...

It's hard to explain the annual national conference of NACAC, the National Association for College Admission Counseling. Imagine 7,000...