So, this will be the last post in our series about schools selection. To revisit things, we first spoke of the need to focus on a school’s specialty rather than its prestige. Want to go into business? Purdue and Indiana are some of the best colleges in the country. Similarly,…

Last week, we discussed the way most families attack the college selection process: perusing the U.S. News rankings. We provided an alternate option: investigating the strength of individual fields of study. For the focused student, not only will this lead to a richer academic experience, but it also opens up…

For the past two decades, it has been an understood fact that admission to colleges would get progressively more difficult through the early 2010s. This view went along rather uninterrupted up until 2008…and then the economy fell apart. The last several years have dramatically changed everything related to college admissions…