“I’m applying to college because my father will kill me if I don’t. Or he might make me get a job, which would be worse.” College education is a huge investment. To better understand the cost of college, you should think of college tuition as the aggregate cost of a four-year education. There is no [...]

With April around the corner, high school juniors are beginning to tour colleges across the country while seniors receive admission decisions and choose where they will matriculate. How does one decide when there are over 4,000 colleges in the United States? “You want to know what I look for in a college? Hot chicks in [...]

Crime. One of the topics that colleges do not wish to discuss is campus crime. In fact, colleges only started reporting crime statistics in the 1990s because federal law required it. Before the government required campuses to reveal their crime statistics, it was almost impossible to discover a campus’s crime rate. The mandatory detailed reporting [...]

Greeks: either you love them or hate them. On most large public universities, fraternities and sororities dominate social life, which means either you’re in a frat or sorority or you go bowling on Friday nights. Private colleges vary widely: some of them have no frats (Harvard,Georgetown,), some have quasi-frats (Princeton, Yale), and some colleges have [...]

Does applying early to your first choice school help or hurt you in the college admissions process? For high school seniors applying to top colleges, this question is especially important to consider. Let’s take a look at what’s happening in higher education to gain some insight: When in 2006 Harvard and Princeton announced they would [...]