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Why I Didn’t Take Advanced Placement (AP) Classes

Posted March 17, 2014, 3:00 pm by Evan Berkowitz

There’s a lot of emphasis today on crafting with expert hands the best possible college application. Increasingly, high school students are under immense pressure to be “better” than their compatriots,...

3 Ways to Explore Possible Majors Before College

Posted March 12, 2014, 7:25 pm by Sam Coren

If you’re just starting the college search you may be overwhelmed by the number of options when it comes to choosing a major. Check out the list of majors at...

Should Parents Pay for College?

Posted March 11, 2014, 3:00 pm by Suzanne Shaffer

The news this past week was inundated with stories about a young teen from New Jersey who sued her parents to pay for college. Parents all over the country have...

Is ROTC the Right Choice for Your Son or Daughter?

Posted March 9, 2014, 3:00 pm by Elizabeth Suneby

The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, better known by the acronym ROTC (often pronounced Rot-see), is a college-based program for training commissioned officers for all branches of the U.S. Military—Army, Navy,...

Advantages of Liberal Arts Colleges

Posted March 7, 2014, 4:00 pm by Andrew Belasco

Harvard, Yale, Stanford and other large, prestigious universities contain top-notch student bodies and, for the most part, provide excellent undergraduate educations; but so do places like Macalester, Reed, Bowdoin, and...

Here’s Everything You Need to Know About the New SAT

Posted March 6, 2014, 5:57 pm by Customer Service

The college application process is about to see some dramatic changes. The New SAT This week, the College Board announced plans to refocus and realign the SAT—a test loathed and...