Kids tend to ignore their emails. (Perhaps you’ve noticed.) When you ignore college emails, you miss important information about portals, missing documents, scholarship deadlines, and even acceptance notifications. The hundreds of unsolicited emails from colleges can be overwhelming, but creating folders gives you POWER over your mailbox. Sorting, reading, unsubscribing, and deleting is easy and satisfying. Students, do this: Now

Honors Course Characteristics Honors courses are designed to be broader, deeper, and more complex than regular courses. They often feature smaller class sizes and discussion-based formats that encourage active engagement. H seminars are particularly distinctive, offering interdisciplinary content that often focuses on leadership, research, and global engagement themes. Program Structure: Three Paths The JMU Honors College offers students three distinct

Otterbein University cares about supporting you from Day 1 through launching your career. It’s also very attuned to affordability. Just 15 miles from downtown Columbus, Otterbein University is located in a quaint suburb, Westerville, Ohio, known for its parks, restaurants, and shops. Otterbein University is loosely associated with the United Methodist Church but has no religious requirements. The campus is

It’s THE Ohio State University. They actually trademarked the word the. Pride is big here. You see it on the building signage but also on the sea of Ohio State clothing and gear. They even carry a buckeye in their pockets. (The buckeye is a seed like an acorn or chestnut with a tan patch that looks like the eye

What makes DU special The University of Denver–known as DU–ranked #1 in Princeton Review 2024 for Students Who Love Their University. Princeton Review also gave the school #23 for Happiest Students and #24 for Most Beautiful Campus. But it’s not just those rankings that make this a school worth heading to Colorado for. The school is based on “The 4D

When my seniors return to school, they have an important task to do: following up on their letter-of-recommendation requests. While they’ve been busy this summer finalizing their college lists, describing activities, and polishing essays, the LOR follow-up needs to happen soon. Before I started college advising with Two Bridges College Consulting, I taught AP English Language and Composition, journalism, and

Whether I’m working with a freshman or a senior who is just getting started, my goal is the same: helping students discover who they are and figure out their next steps into the future. But timing can make a big difference in how we get there. Every year as school’s about to start, I get a frantic call from at

150 characters The activities section of the Common App forces you to tell a whole lot in very little space. You have 150 characters—letters, punctuation marks, and spaces—to describe an activity. You’re limited to 10 activities. You have 50 characters for your position and 100 characters for the organization. So if you’re creative with your use of space, you have

In over three decades in the classroom, I learned to spot the résumé padders who loaded up on extracurricular activities in junior and senior year. As adviser for the high school newspaper, I witnessed what colleges really hope to see: depth over breadth, quality over quantity. The students who started as ninth-grade reporters and rose to be editors by senior

How does immersion create connection at Furman University? It starts with the residency requirement and continues with wraparound advising for all four years. These features lead to deep connections with professors, advisers, and peers. A residential campus experience Furman is 100% residential, meaning that everyone is expected to live on campus all four years. The school believes that to be