Last month, while we were all trying to enjoy the Holiday season, Congress passed and the president signed major, significant legislation that will change how financial aid is calculated. The [...]

First, to be perfectly clear, this is NOT a political piece… AT ALL. In fact, as I write this, the ultimate make up of the next Congress remain unsettled, while the winner of the [...]

Happy Friday! Not gonna sugar coat it, This. Was. A. Very. Long. Week! If you’re an educator, administrator, college-bound teen, current college student (or a parent who loves them), [...]

Right before we got married, Jill and I went skiing. Jill was just learning, and while on our first lift, we looked down and saw a couple fighting — loudly. One of them screamed, “if [...]

My son in an 11th grader and my daughter is in her 3rd year of a 5-year program at Drexel University in Pennsylvania. I share this now because I want you to understand that I don’t just [...]

Here’s what we learned this week: First, several more schools (including many deemed ‘highly selective’) announced that they would be dropping the SAT/ACT requirement for [...]

In an extraordinary time of need for so many, I wanted to take just a moment today to celebrate the many 12th graders in our program, and across the country, who learned where they were admitted [...]

We spend so much time around here helping students find their way to college that sometimes we look past a fundamental question: Should you even go to college? And if the answer is yes, then all [...]

I’ve lived in South Florida nearly my entire life, and in those years I’ve noticed a curious pattern. Beginning in September, everyone (me included) seems to become a meteorologist.  [...]

I am often asked what it takes to get admitted to a top college. For the 13+ years I’ve been working in private practice in higher education, my answer has remained essentially the same. [...]