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It can be expensive, but if you can afford to go and have a strong interest in traveling, take the plunge! If you have to think it over for several semesters, by the time you make up your mind, it may be too late.

The admissions officer across from you asks that fateful question: “Why should this college accept you?” Are you prepared to answer, and answer well?

In order to afford the opportunity of just kicking back, soaking up some sun, hanging out with friends, and possibly taking a trip during the summer months, students take summer jobs. However, it may be in a student’s best interest to take on a summer job for other reasons besides money.
Considering the current economy, it [...]

If starting a new school with larger classes and stricter teachers was not intimidating enough, recent high school graduates also have to deal with the speculation that many of them are just not ready for the coming college semester. And whose fault might that be? The high school’s or the student’s?
According to a recent article [...]

Now that college acceptance letters have gone out, seniors aren’t the ones waiting anxiously by their mailbox; it’s the university’s turn to nibble hangnails and tap toes as they wait to hear if any of the athletes recruited to play sports accept their invitation to join the school. Where top student athletes head to school [...]

Typically, when people imagine college students, they picture young adults in their early twenties; however, it is extremely common to have college students who are ten, twenty, or thirty years beyond that age. Whether it is a generation or two that separates the students in age, having a multi-aged campus is a wonderful sign of [...]

There are over 7,000 higher education opportunities in United States, yet over fifty percent of every graduating class stays within one hundred miles of their home.  All that talk of “got to get me out of this town” yields to the reality of college life. Sometimes flying across the country to attend some obscure private [...]

The fateful nerve-shivering day of acceptance or rejection arrives with startling punctuality every year. For millions of students this means a living room dance or a change of plans depending on the “Congratulations” or “I’m sorry to inform you” opening lines of the decision letter. But what if you waited months for the day you [...]

The two-year college is intended to jump-start students with their college education, while preparing for the four-year colleges. So why is it that many universities are still hesitant to transfer students from junior colleges? Is it a matter of prestige? Of being prepared? Neither of these seems like respectable answers for a university to decline [...]

A review of the Princeton Review’s GRE prep application and some information on other popular study applications.