Students should prioritize establishing a good relationship with their guidance counselor – a key advocate in their college journey. Counselors ensure students take the courses ...

Today’s motivated parents often intrusively engineer their student’s activities to build a competitive college application.

Where do we start? This is the question on the minds of students, their families, and other supporters who are just beginning the college search and application experience. There is certainly no ...

Survive the college application process by showcasing your extracurricular activities, expressing your passions in the college essay and practicing self care. Applying for college is stressful. There ...

Here are some of the red flags that will quickly indicate to admissions officers that a student has hired a prescriptive college admissions consultant.

I'm a college-admissions expert, and I help high schoolers get into their dream schools. Students shouldn't burn themselves out by doing too many extracurriculars for their applications. They should ...

To learn about what happens behind the closed doors of the admissions office, The Herald sat down with two Brown University admissions officers, Emily Wagg ’24 and Aidan Berman ’25, to get a glimpse ...

Editor’s note: This is the first story in a collaborative series covering the state of Northwest college admissions in 2025. Directives by the Trump administration are aimed at eliminating race-based ...

Long before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the consideration of race in admissions for colleges and universities, the admission process for highly selective schools was inequitable. Over the ...