One concern flutters as the seniors prepare to graduate high school and embark on new adventures: packing for college. Each student will head to different regions and universities–to other cities, climates,...
College is an opportunity, a learning paradise, and a cocoon of growth and development.
Still, the journey to this “paradise” is stricken by nightmare after nightmare.
The college admissions process...
Interview with the College Counseling Team
As the school year starts, we welcome the new college counseling team. During the interview, the three college counselors offered insights about their own...
Imagine living in a small room with no windows, storage space, or adequate ventilation. While sounding fictional, this is the blueprint for Munger Hall, the newly designed University of California Santa...
What is the point of using the SAT? And why do we students still take it? Until recently, standardized testing, specifically the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), held a significant influence in the college...
Dear Fellow Rejectees,
It's about time for us to stop feeling sorry for ourselves and start focusing on the opportunities awaiting us in this exciting time in our lives: college. So grab a makeup removing...
Free college tuition.
This idea has become increasingly popular and was one of Bernie Sanders’s biggest campaign promises. His idea, that “every person in this country… should be able to get all...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman’s (or man’s) rape is her own fault. That’s probably what the judge of the People v Brock Allen Turner, or, as it is more commonly recognized, the...
It seems as if there is a polarized debate on this subject: on one hand there are those who believe that it is a necessary and a safer bet to choose higher education; on the other hand, there are those...
There are literally thousands of four-year degree-granting colleges in America.
Each school strives to make itself heard, noticed, and desirable. When sophomores in high school take the PSAT, there is...
Adolescence, the process of transformation from child to adult, has been replaced by a race.
It is a race for the ability to say you are the smartest in your class, the best at playing piano, the most...
