A drive through the University Park section of North Dallas (it’s actually a separate, donut-hole city of its own) is to imagine yourself in an episode of “Dynasty”. This is a very wealthy neighborhood with huge pre-McMansion era homes, elegant shopping centers, and beautiful views of the Dallas skyline. Southern Methodist University, one of the…
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.
The Cowboy Family
Stillwater OK bills itself as America’s Friendliest Town and Oklahoma State University comes very close to declaring itself the same in the university category. Nothing in our visit hinted that they may be exaggerating. This university, in a small, lively college town in northern Oklahoma is busy rebranding itself from its roots as Oklahoma A&M…
Oklahoma is more than OK
Whole swaths of the US population would never consider the University of Oklahoma for one reason alone: it’s in Oklahoma. For the high achieving high school student looking for a first-rate research university with a vibrant student life culture and who isn’t swayed by coastal provincialism, this is a good thing. It means fewer competing…
A nice surprise at TCU
TCU-Texas Christian University doesn’t mess around when it comes to making you feel comfy in your group information sessions. It felt more like an executive coaching session at Goldman Sachs. But that was only the start of our remarkable two hours on this beautiful campus. I knew this was going to be more than we…
Auburn: the other big Alabama university
Auburn University sits in the proverbial shade of its bigger, more glamorous public sister, the University of Alabama, but it’s an equally impressive institution emerging as a major American research university. With 23,000 undergrads, Auburn is big but not mammoth and the easily navigated campus makes it feel much smaller. The campus is beautiful with…
‘Ole Miss and Oxford
Oxford MS seems like a college town built by Hollywood for one of those movies about a writer falling in love in a steamy southern town between the wars, when everything in the world seemed just about perfect. But it’s no movie set. It’s a real town. There’s a white stone county courthouse in the…
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