A couple of years ago I searched for a school that offered a bio-Engineering. I used foru different sites and ended up with four different sets of answers. This illustrated the need to be cautious when using college search servives. Today comes another warning:
If you want to play college sports, Minneapolis Community and Technical College [...]

Patrick Mattimore offers a list of great reasons to consider going to Canada for university:
•    Cost (Savings over four years at a small liberal arts college in Canada will be around $100,000 compared to a similar American school and the AUCC estimates that fees to public U.S. universities were almost one-third higher than fees [...]

Source: New York Times

The University of California is reporting a rise in applications at most of their campuses:

Berkeley up 1.9%
Davis up 5.4%
Irvine 5.2%
Los Angeles up 5.2%
Merced up .4%
Riverside up 7.4%
San Diego up 2.4%
Santa Barbara down 2%
Santa Cruz down .6%

Given that the UCs have cut spaces in the freshman classes at almost all their campuses, it will be the [...]

With the economic crisis comes opportunity, or so many students thought. They threw through their name into the pool of applicants at some of the selective universities, think that maybe this could be their year. Only the pool is way deeper. Numbers are starting to emerge:
More than 29,000 students applied to Harvard, a 5.6 percent [...]

US news provides brif insight into 7 presidents who transfered from one university to another…and went on to become president of the united States:
James Garfield—Started at Western Reserve Eclectic Institute in Ohio (now known as Hiram College) but graduated from Williams College.
Benjamin Harrison—Started at Farmer’s College (near Cincinnati), then transferred to Miami University of Ohio.
Woodrow [...]

University of California has been bleeding for years uner continuous cutbacks. Now they are in full scale hemorage. 
The UC Regents, under recommendation from UC President Mark Yudof, have voted to reduce first-year students by 2,300, or about six percent, for the next incoming class, in fall 2009.
The good news is that UCLA, Berkeley and Merced are [...]

Oh it will just get so confusing.
Collegeboard is reintroducing score choice that allows students to pick which scores get sent to colleges. Some colleges do not like it. Yale is leading the charge:
In a statement Thursday morning, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeff Brenzel said Yale will require applicants to send all their scores for the SAT Reasoning [...]

Every year I am asked who has a good summer program in film or leadership or art or language or…well you get the idea. Years ago I put together a series of webpages to make it easy to find these programs. Honestly, I find Peteron’s summer directory database cumbersome and awkard to use. I have [...]

It is about time, is all I can say. Every time a young musician or artist walks in my office and asks what other courses should they take beyond their chosen art or music classes, I always reply psychology and business. Why? Both fields will work with people and psychology gives some insight into people. [...]