Frank Bruni of the New York Times gives more great college advice. Highly motivated students on a budget have plenty of options in addition to the Ivy League and highly selective liberal arts colleges. Honors programs at public universities have a great deal to offer. To read his article click here. Launch College Counseling [...]
Visiting 15 or so colleges in two weeks was as exhausting as it was informative. Although some of the details run together or get confused, visiting multiple campuses in different environments gives students some great information and helps them begin to be aware of their priorities and preferences. […]
The beauty of road trips is flexibility. I had planned to drive through North Carolina to visit three more colleges when my husband's allergies caused us to take a shortcut home. We decided to stop in Pittsburgh on the long trip back from Philadelphia. This turned out to be a good decision, since [...]
Haverford College Library Today we have the treat of having a guest blogger: my husband, a Haverford alum. His bias is clear. Haverford College, on Philadelphia's Main Line (named after a commuter train which stops at some of Philly's oldest and toniest burbs), is part of a consortium of colleges, including Swarthmore and [...]
On our way to Philadelphia from New York, we stopped over in Princeton, New Jersey, to roam around a little and get a sense of the imposing Princeton University. We were initially put off by the guard posted at one of the gates, who told us we needed to park our car and take [...]
Yale Law School Yale. Or, should I just say Hogwarts. Okay I admit it, I am a total sucker for that classic Neo-Gothic college architecture. This was another quick stop for us on our way to New York. I was really surprised by the huge size of the school and the large [...]
Wesleyan Senior Housing Wesleyan University is a terrific liberal arts school, considered to be one of the three Little Ivies (the other two are Williams and Amherst). The school is set on approximately 350 acres in the picturesque town of Middletown, Connecticut. The campus is beautiful, with a mix of old and [...]
On our way to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, we took time off from our serious college touring, and visited western Massachusetts. We stayed just outside the happening hub of Northampton. Northampton is a funky little city that is home to one of the colleges of the Five College Consortium and is a short [...]
The second college we drove through today was Brown University. Brown is ideally situated in the city of Providence, Rhode Island, which is small enough to be manageable without a car yet large enough to offer typical city diversions such as great restaurants, shopping, and concerts. […]
Mile 1,300 of our crazy college road trip was limited to "drive bys," as the temperature soared to 100 degrees. Okay--I am exaggerating--it was 98 degrees. Also, we did not have any scheduled tours today. So, on our way to Providence, we drove through Brandeis University. Set in suburban Waltham, Massachusetts, the campus is lovely. [...]
