I’m happy to report that we’ve been featured on the Radical Parenting blog. The article, written by our own Regan Bozman, explores the subject of cramming and its many detriments. An excerpt:

[The non-cramming] strategy also allows you to get a good night’s sleep the night before the test (experts recommend at least 8 hours). Instead [...]

The blog at MyUSearch.com has a great post titled “Does any Ivy League Education Pay Off?” which covers studies that analyze college graduate salaries. Though these studies may be interesting, they paint an incomplete picture when it comes to the college-career relationship.
Career success is not about finding the highest-paying job, but finding the right job [...]

Add these to the wealth of online resources explored in Part 1 of Regan’s Final Countdown series and the list from AdmissionsAdvice:
Virtual College Tours – Campustours.com and Yourcampus360.com
Mark Montgomery from Great College Advice mentions two tools that allow you to visit campuses online, www.campustours.com and www.yourcampus360.com. These websites offer virtual tours, campus maps, and interviews [...]

In our company, it became clear early on that building solid customer relationships is the key to success. That is why I find it amazing when some companies seem to ignore it.
I lost my credit card a while ago, so I called up Citibank to cancel it and get a new one. When i called [...]

The Wall Street Journal has an interesitng article on personality tests and the college admissions process. Certain colleges, including BC and Tufts, have begun to use questions that reveal an applicant’s personality on their applications. It’s an interesting concept, but personality seems pretty hard to quantify.

The College Board recently released the second edition to their Official SAT Study Guide, and it looks like a significant improvement on the original.
The main addition is the 10 new practice tests (2 more than the 1st edition), and more importantly, 3 recent exams. Those of us geezers who took the old SAT (the one [...]

Joie Jager-Hyman, a former admissions officer at Dartmouth, has an interesting article in Forbes about getting into Ivies and other competitive colleges.

In Part 1 of my Final Countdown series, I talked about how to make an initial list of colleges you’re interested in applying to. Now, of course, you should apply where you want to. But you also need a list of schools that have varying probabilities of accepting you. No matter how smart you are, [...]