In the current economic climate, small, regional, private colleges are under something akin to a death watch. Some are closing, a few slash their budgets, close academic departments and survive, if barely, by awarding mammoth tuition discounts. But a few come to terms with the unsustainability of regionalism and choose to reinvent themselves. Quinnipiac in…
News and notes from Berkshire College Advising
There’s a life-changing college and university experience waiting for every type of student. From the supremely smart high achiever, to the solid A-/B- student, to the late bloomer, there’s a wealth of colleges to choose from. Berkshire College Advising of Amherst Mass. works to match students to the right college by helping them engage in self-assessment, mastering the subtleties of the application/admission process, and making a choice based on the student’s own well thought-out priorities.
Hendrix College: An Arkansas gem
#HendrixCollege. One of the real treats of this work is the academically serious client with a less-than perfect record, comfortable enough in their own skin to say “I don’t care about admit rates, I just want a good college”. And if that client is a northeasterner saying “get me out of here”, then it really…
Colorado State University
Out-of-state students looking toward Colorado as a place for college tend to gravitate to Colorado College and its unusual Block Plan curriculum or the University of Colorado with its distinctive architecture and the uber-hipness of Boulder. But the state’s secret gem of a university may be Colorado State University. As is true with many other…
Colorado School of Mines
Colorado School of Mines is one of a handful of off-the-radar technical colleges that’s accessible to exceptionally strong students left in the dust by the single-digit admit rates of Cal Tech, Carnegie-Mellon, Harvey Mudd and the like. Smaller, more focused and more of an ‘applied science’ place than those tech behemoths–and much easier to get…
Buy this book
As I’ve written before on this blog, any student or parent for whom the cost of college is a concern needs to play a long game that takes into account post-baccalaureate plans and expenses. If you are admitted to an elite college but with no financial aid, is it a good long -term investment to…
Spring Semester 2020: how to prevent a total write-off
High school students are about to get a taste of what it means to reinvent a school on the fly. Educators are creating on-line curricula with no time to experiment, and teachers, normally energized by the interplay between readings and roomfuls of students, are staring into their laptops trying to guage the tenor of their…
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