January 23, 2017
Today I posted my First Impressions of Vassar College, among the best schools for students who are interested in a liberal arts college, and have the academic chops to get in. The most popular majors at most colleges, large or small, are likely to be in subjects in the liberal […]
July 27, 2016
College is partly about connections, especially for students who attend a larger research university. This is one of the reasons that the most selective research universities are so popular with the best and brightest college-bound high school students. But if someone were to choose a research university for the undergraduate educational […]
July 7, 2016
I thought it appropriate to write a fun post comparing the college enrollment management world to a major league baseball front office. I’m a huge baseball fan who actually reads “saber metrics” books for fun, even though I do not claim to have a superior mathematical or statistical mind. Nor have […]
July 7, 2016
Former Secretary of State and current Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has proposed that in-state public college tuition (but not fees) be free for “working families” earning $125,000 or less by 2021, presumably the beginning of her second term in office. What would happen if public college tuition were truly […]
April 4, 2016
Last month I was invited to visit Lycoming College, a small (around 1,300 undergraduates) located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. If you’re a baseball fan, you might know of Williamsport as the home of the Little League World Series. However, it is also a college town with two colleges. Lycoming shares the community with […]
February 9, 2016
When it comes to gathering teacher recommendation letters, I start with four words for high school juniors: ask for them now. Your favorite teachers need the time to write them, especially if they are also the favorite teachers for several of your classmates. There are two kinds of teacher recommendation letters: […]
January 19, 2016
I have followed, with interest, the debates between the Democratic candidates for President more than I have followed the Republicans. This is not so much because I do not know how I will vote as much as the discussion of the costs of a college education. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) […]
October 28, 2015
Next week I will visit Howard University as part of a trip to see a number of Baltimore and Washington D.C area colleges. Howard is one 80 historically black colleges in the United States that were recently ranked in U.S. News. The private historically black colleges are diverse in that some […]