College for free? For many American students, it sounds too good to be true (though there are plenty of places abroad where free tuition is the norm). While it might not be the standard practice in...
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Making Your Dorm Your Own: 5 Dorm Decor Tips
As you head off for the shopping spree before your freshman year of college, you may be feeling lots of things: excitement about having your own space, nervousness about being away from home,...
Neurodivergent-Friendly Colleges and Universities
The term “neurodivergence” has entered the vocabulary of the general public — and for good reason. As Cleveland Clinic explains, the word is an umbrella term that “describes people whose brain...
Should I Take a Gap Year?
The so-called “gap year” saw a steep rise in popularity in the 1980s. As matriculation from high school to college became more and more expected for the population at large, many students found the...
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Choosing How Far Away to Go to College Some kids have dreamed of getting as far away from their hometown as they can from elementary school. Maybe you’ve been landlocked your whole life and have...
What’s Your Passion? Unleash it with a Passion Project
We’re living in the Age of Information, and there’s no shortage of possibilities laid before each and every student embarking on their own path into college, careers, and adulthood. The wide open...
What’s Going on with the U.S. News and World Report College Rankings?
It has been a long-standing tradition for the U.S. News and World Report, an American media company with roots reaching back to 1948, to release its annual “Best Colleges” report. This report has...
Part-Time vs. Full-Time College Enrollment
College is a huge commitment — of time, of money, of energy. For many students, choosing a part-time path through higher education can help make the requirements more manageable, but full-time...
Benefits of Joining an Honors College
Congratulations! You’ve been accepted to a college! Maybe you’re even looking at your options across multiple offers. If you’ve got great grades and high test scores, you’re probably also staring...
Should I Buy or Rent My College Textbooks?
You can’t “hit the books” without getting the books, but the choices for how to do so have expanded for undergraduate students (and, in many cases, so have the costs). Many of your undergraduate...