Twelve universities. Roughly 3,200 miles driven. Plenty of impressions that started to crowd each other towards the end. A few obvious judgments and a number…
The last stop on our tour. A level of fatigue certainly sets in. It’s not that we are not enjoying campus visits anymore, rather we…
For a student who wants to aim high and cannot be lured to a no-name school, cheaper college education these days means a single option:…
NYU had a chance to become my own alma mater. They blew that opportunity when I was offered way too few transfer credits based on…
With the exception of just a handful of the States in the Union, for a student aspiring to the Ivy League-level education, the nearby state…
The second liberal arts college on our itinerary is the one that offers an engineering degree among its majors. Doesn’t that make their “liberal arts”…
Sometimes people check out stuff they come across in the infomercials. Drexel was nowhere near our list of targets for Becky’s higher education. It is…
Cornell topped the list of matches for Becky’s various interests, when that research was conducted, which is not at all surprising given its founder’s motto…
Not all colleges on our touring itinerary were selected because they matched up exceedingly well with Becky’s interests. Several were selected for reasons that could…
The sequence of different-type-of-campus visits continued on our call to Boston U. Unlike our previous stops, BU’s campus sits smack in the middle of a…
Why would a secular Jew consider a Jesuit Catholic education for his child? By luck or accident, the first few college visits all brought us…
The second destination on our college tour was one of just the couple of liberal arts colleges on Becky’s list. I have a feeling that…
We started our college-touring itinerary aiming pretty high – with the better of the two Ivy League schools on our list. It is arguable whether…
When I was a college-bound kid – where I grew up is of significant importance, of course – both the task of applying and the…