"Dr. O'Connor?" "Mrs. Hart, how are you? Emily is on her--" "You have some nerve, talking about Emily. After you call her a two-timer in your last...
Patrick O'Connor | Posted 04.25.2012
The moral? In using meatloaf data to pick a college, two out of three ain't bad.
Patrick O'Connor | Posted 04.19.2012
Admit it -- at some point in your life, you didn't really believe college counselors were all that important.
J.D. Rothman | Posted 04.19.2012
Here are 25 ridiculous reasons that kids dismiss some excellent colleges.
Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 04.09.2012
Is higher education just an expensive form of job preparation? Or is it about learning about the world and about yourself?
Diane Gayeski, Ph.D. | Posted 03.29.2012
It's that exquisitely anxious time of the year when high school students applying to colleges are getting their acceptance letters and trying to decide where to spend the next four years of their time and most of their parents' life savings.
Alexis Jane Torre | Posted 04.30.2012
I may not have the next 20 years of my life planned out, but I did set a college and career goal: to take all the time I need to find my answer to the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
Catherine Seraphin | Posted 04.28.2012
Someone at the school of your dreams may have done something dreadful. Someone at a great institution may have tarnished its proud reputation and heritage. But these will be your glory days: don't let one person ruin that.
Patrick O'Connor | Posted 04.27.2012
Some colleges have graduation requirements, including specific core academic courses all students must take, while others have no core requirements at all.
Rebecca Joseph | Posted 02.29.2012
Here are the tips I give to students and their families with unhappy college freshmen if they can't imagine staying any longer than necessary at their current college.
usnews.com | Posted 10.01.2011
A recurring theme in this blog has revolved around the notion of "fit": The best college for you is the one that fits you best. Unfortunately, this no...
US News and World Report | Posted 06.12.2011
Michael Lopresti is facing the biggest decision he's ever made, as his mom, Mary Beth, puts it. A high school senior with hopes of one day becoming a ...
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Posted 06.04.2011
You've done your research, bought the sweatshirt and envisioned yourself waltzing across the campus dozens of times. And then it arrives: the dreaded ...
Holly Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011
Even kids who get into their first choice schools aren't necessarily better off than those who end up with their last.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
A University of Pennsylvania professor has discovered that prospective students who visit college campuses on overcast days are 9 percent more likely ...
AP | CANDICE CHOI | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Even if a student plans on a major where the financial rewards aren't so obvious, such as art history or philosophy, most American fa...
Patrick O'Connor | Posted 05.22.2012