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The Hazards of Dreaming About Colleges

on March 28, 2011 in Admission practices, Admissions, Applying, California universities, Colleges, Ivy League, Liberal Arts Colleges, Universities

This is an excerpt of a post that I wrote for my college blog at CBS MoneyWatch last week after attending the biggest annual college fair in San Diego. You can read the entire post here: What’s Wrong With America’s Dream Colleges When I looked at The Princeton Review’s newly released lists of America’s most […]

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Do You Really Need an Ivy League Education?

on March 13, 2011 in Academics, Careers, Colleges, Ivy League

Do you need to graduate from an Ivy League school or other super elite college to earn the highest salaries? Many families believe that graduates who can put Harvard or Yale on their resume will fare significantly better financially than smart students who end up earning their degrees from elsewhere. In a famous study, two […]

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Is Any College Really Worth $50,000 a Year?

on March 8, 2011 in College rankings, Colleges, Ivy League, Liberal Arts Colleges, Research, Universities

Affluent families, who can afford to send their children anywhere to college, are becoming more discriminating. Some are questioning whether a private college that costs $50,000 or more is really worth the price. That’s one of the take-home messages of a podcast that I listened to recently on The Chronicle of Higher Education’s website. The […]

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Public Universities With the Best Grad Rates

on February 2, 2011 in California universities, Colleges, Ivy League, Liberal Arts Colleges, Universities

Yesterday I wrote a post that explored what types of schools enjoy the best graduation rates. If you missed it, here it is: Who Graduates In 4 Years? Today I’m sharing the 25 public universities where students enjoy the best chances of earning a diploma in four years. I pulled these figures off the federal […]

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Who Graduates in 4 Years?

on January 31, 2011 in Colleges, Ivy League, Liberal Arts Colleges, Universities

Time is money and that is especially true when it comes to college. College students usually don’t graduate in four years and that comes as a shock to most parents. It should be no surprise that students at private non-profit schools graduate sooner than students at state universities, but there is variation within those two […]

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One More Stab at the Race to Nowhere

on January 27, 2011 in Admissions, Applying, High school counselors, Ivy League

Earlier this week I shared some thoughtful comments from Alice Kleeman, a high school counselor in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Kris Hintz, an independent college counselor in New Jersey, who were responding to a post that I wrote on the higher-ed documentary Race to Nowhere. Here is the post that contains Kris and […]

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