In my line of work, there are few pleasures greater than touring a campus you knew little about, getting back in the car and saying “Wow. I know ten kids who could thrive here”. That’s how I felt after seeing this gem of a liberal arts college that gets little press outside of the south,…
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.
Thoughts on an admission scandal
We’re not even 24 hours into the repellent news story about a handful of wealthy people bribing their children’s way into elite colleges, but already social media is merging the sordid details of this story into a Grand Narrative of college admissions corruption. It’s a story about criminality for sure, but does it really say…
The problem with computer science
Colleges across the country–liberal arts colleges and research universities alike–are struggling to adjust to the unprecedented explosion of interest in the computer science major. As the New York Times reports, Undergraduate programs at research universities are ratcheting up admission benchmarks beyond what anyone would have imagined a decade ago, and even liberal arts colleges are…
Playing the Long Game
Some students peak in 9th grade, crushing their high school program for the next four years, and acing the SAT’s. Those students often go to the colleges that reward near-perfection in high school. If that’s not you–or if you’re close to that but not quite there–don’t beat yourself up because your friend is going to…
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