We continue our disection of Angel Perez’ 5 Key suggestions. from  The Washington Post:
3. Step Foot On Campus
Would you ever buy a house without visiting it? Would you buy a car without test-driving it? You could, but it’s not a safe bet.
Remember that all college brochures, Web sites, and promotional videos will be attractive. These are good [...]

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. [...]

Where to apply really comes down to who are you and who do you want to be? The dirty secret  is of course it is more a buyer’s market than people realise. Sure it is really competative at a hadnful of colleges, but many want applications from students just like you–not only do they want [...]

Yeah for Hamilton! I am super impressed that they have quite literally put their money where their mouths are.They join the ranks of need blind.
Six trustees have pledged $500,000 each to the college to help fund the first few years of the initiative. Hamilton College also will begin a fundraiser to raise $40 million [...]

WIth many college deadlines past, we get a glimpse of just how competative it is out there:
11% (vs. this time last year — deadline is 3/1) Temple
“down” Maryland-College park
-0.7% Yale
Whitman (no change)
+1% Bowdoin
+1% U Conn
+2% U of California System (overall)
…..+5.5% UCLA (72,000 –> 76,000 apps!)
+2.3% NYU
+3% George Washington
+3% Illinois Urbana-Champaign
+3% Lafayette
+3% Union
+3% Vassar
+3% Williams
+3% [...]

I agree with Jeffrey Brenzel, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions at Yale,when he explains that “We’ve reversed the equation–that the college is going to make something out of your life, when actually it’s the student who makes something out of college,” he says.He goes on to explain in an interview with the Huffington Post
:
“Any strong college [...]

GamePro offers up a  listing of best colleges to study Video Game Design:

1
University of Southern California, Interactive Media Division

Location: Los Angeles, CA
Degrees offered: Major/Minor
Number of students enrolled: 16,283
Student/Faculty ratio: 9:1
Annual tuition: $38,570
The Interactive Media Division of USC has graduated some pretty big names in the indie gaming scene. Jenova Chen of thatgamecompany (flOw), Matt [...]

According to Unigo:

01
Reed College

02
Wabash College

03
University of Chicago

04
Whitman College

05
Swarthmore College

06
Bennington College

07
Pitzer College

08
Hampshire College

09
Sarah Lawrence College

10
Grinnell College

Let see how they did when you compare it with the data on full-bright scholars?
Top U.S. Producers of Fulbright Students, by Type of Institutions, 2009-10

Research institutions
Number of awards
Number of applicants

Northwestern U.
32
109

U. of Chicago
31
128

Brown U.
29
106

Stanford U.
28
87

U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor
28
111

Yale U.
25
92

Columbia [...]

The AMA made a profound mistake years ago in predicting there would be too many doctors. This resulted in only 1 new medical school opening in a thrity year period. It, of course, proved dumb since the US population kept going up and up. Rural communities already go without doctors. Of course this scarcity has [...]

Times–they are a changin’–or so it goes in financial aid for international students. Up until recently, things had looked more positive with 8 colleges offering need-blind for international students:

MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Massachusetts
Harvard University in Massachusetts
Princeton University in New Jersey
Yale University in Connecticut
Williams College in Massachusetts
Middlebury College in Vermont
Dartmouth College in New Hampshire
Amherst [...]