Myths About SAT and ACT Tests
Everyone loves studying for college entrance exams. Real or not real?
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How to Choose Your Room Style at College
If you’re not sure how to choose your room style at college, you’re not alone. With a wide and overwhelming range of student housing at most colleges, it can get confusing for incoming students and their families. But if you use our tips ...
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Talking About the College Transition: Tips for Parents
Starting college is a series of firsts for students and their parents. Research, campus visits, and the all-important orientation offer data points and examples of what being a freshman means. But there’s no dry run, no drill, no ...
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How to Make Your Day More Productive: Tips for College Counselors
For college counselors, productivity is a measure of how many students can be helped in a day. Nationally, the average ratio of public-school counselors to students is 482-to-1. That means knowing how to make your day more productive is ...
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Tips for Parents on Teaching College-Bound Students How to Be Independent
It’s a safe bet that someone somewhere is writing a doctoral thesis or medical journal article on why there are so many labels these days for overprotective parents: helicopter parents, bulldozer parents, snowplow parents, to name a few. ...
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How to Prepare for College and Your First Time Away from Home
The countdown to your first semester at college is on, and chances are you’re having some feelings. Are you excited, nervous, terrified? All three? Don’t fret. Take a deep breath and follow our tips on how to prepare for college and your ...
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Top Tips for College Counselors on Beating Summer Melt
In community college circles, summer melt is when students who enroll in the spring don’t show up come fall. With four-year colleges, melt is where students commit to school in the spring but never enroll. They say melt stops one-tenth or ...
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Summer Reading for the College-Bound Student
Can reading Harry Potter prepare you for freshman year? Yes, Potterheads, you’ll be happy to know that you can count Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone as part of your college prep. Studies have shown that reading fiction changes your ...
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Top Tips for Planning College Visit Road Trips
Buckle up — your college search is hitting the road. Whether your tour of college campuses takes you across the state or all the way across the country, a road trip will be a real education about yourself, your school preferences, your ...
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College Campus Tours in Summer
Spring and fall campus tours get all the glory, but for many students, there is no better time than summer to get to know a school. Visiting schools in summer can be the first step in the college search in your sophomore or junior year, or ...
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