So you applied to and were offered admissions to a few universities in the UK. Now you discovered you did not quite meet your conditions. Or you scored even better than you expected. You can prepare yourself to use the Clearing system. Many universities will discover they have spaces come mid August and may be [...]

Today I gave a workshop on using personality testing in the college search process. The site we used:
Shanghai American School Guidance website.
Some great books on personality profiles (some college or career specific):

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While many students consider taking a year abroad in their junior year, a growing number of colleges offer freshman year abroad, according to Inside HigerEd. Indeed a list compiled on the NACAC list serve reveals just how involved it has become:

NYU x11 (to Florence, Paris, London, Abu Dhabi – http://www.nyu.edu/studyabroad/freshmen.programs/)
Skidmore x8 (to London – http://cms.skidmore.edu/ocse/programs/london_fye/index.cfm)
Suffolk x8 (to [...]

Oxford is infamous for its admissions process from admission tutors jumping on tables to intense admission exams. One of their colleges has had an additional essay question since the 1930’s. What separates this essay from others is the fact that the prompt is only once word. Some examples: ““style,” “censorship,” “charity,” “reproduction,” “novelty,” “chaos” and [...]

2. Be Open Minded
I can guarantee you that there are schools that would be the perfect fit for you, but you’ve never heard of them! The school that many students end up at may not have been their “dream school” at the start. But once they research it, they realize it’s the school for them.
Unfortunately, [...]

Some places just look like colleges should look like. Often movie producers go out of thewir way to capture a particualr ambiance when they make a movie which has a college foucs. Look at fictional Faber college in Animal House. It was actually filmed at University of Oregon–after 12 colleges in six states said no. [...]

The BBC reports that: “As of January 22, the number of UK-based applicants, 499,451, was up 22.1%, while overseas applications rose 28.7% to 71,105. And more would-be students may yet apply.” This is just the latest of several years of increases.

The BBC further reports that the Russell Group–a consortium of the most competitive universities–experienced increases [...]

Firstly sad news from the UK:
Those cutting places include the London School of Economics, Essex and Edinburgh University, while universities freezing numbers include Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, King’s College London, Imperial College London and Warwick.
The biggest cut, however, is at Edinburgh — it is reducing its 2010 intake by 1,300 places, nearly a third of the total….Among [...]

Students applying to the UK often scoff at their classmates who have to take the SAT in order to apply to college. WHile their carefree days are numbered as 1 in 5 UK universities now require entrance tests:
Researchers said there were 84 different tests against 67 recorded a year earlier, although it still only dictated [...]

The UK and Australia provde direct entry to a major unlike say the USA, Canada and Scotland (although you can certainly start building your major immediately). One often wonders which method is better. I have always argue it depends on the student. But a new study actually suggest that committing too soon is not a [...]