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 [...]

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.

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, [...]

The essay is one of the most dreaded portions of the college process. It requires a huge amount of time and effort, and can really influence where you get in. You can’t turn yourself into an amazing writer in a few months, so you should accept that your essay won’t be perfect. College admissions counselors [...]

From time to time we will feature articles from our writers or guest bloggers on why they chose their college. Isadora is a recent grad from Bronx High School of Science, and will be attending Oberlin in the fall.

My choice for Oberlin as a college may seem strange to some, because it is the polar [...]

If Regan’s epic series on finding and choosing colleges wasn’t enough, here’s a great post from admissionsadvice.com called Rounding Out Your College List. It lists a lot of interesting colleges and opportunities that even I didn’t know about.

1. Be on a reality show. I have never seen a popular reality show about young people that doesn’t portray them in a negative way. A great example is Bravo’s NYC Prep, which showcases the repetitive and uninteresting lives of six (supposedly) wealthy New York City high school students. Many of the students on the [...]