This is our legacy blog–for the most updated info please visit our College Admissions Insights blog where we share important news and opinions on topics central to the application process.
A look back on past insights from Plan the Path
Blog Archive
Big Data on Campus
Big data has reached college admissions. Even college admissions departments are using customer-relations management systems (CRM) to track data on prospective students and organize…
Read more
Take It From Me:
Some of my students can be very stubborn, and they often hold on fiercely to assumptions they’ve made about schools they know only little…
Read more
February 2019 Newsletter
In this issue: SAT vs ACT—Which Should You Take?, Focus on Majors: Astrophysics, Financial Matters: Tax Benefits for Education, Dare to Be Different
Read more
Hampshire Flounders
Hampshire College is turning 50 next year. But that’s only if they can survive until then.
Read more
Franklin & Marshall College
Since Benjamin Franklin funded the founding of this small liberal arts school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, over 200 years ago, Franklin & Marshall College has…
Read more
Dickinson College
Dickinson College in Carlyle, Pennsylvania, was chartered six days after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, making it the first college to be…
Read more
Student Loan Debt
The typical student borrower will take out $6,600 in a single year, averaging $22,000 in debt by graduation, according to the National Center for…
Read more
Clamping Down on Fraternities
It is no secret that in the past few years fraternities have been involved in some irresponsible, even deadly, behavior.
Read more
College And Character: What Counts
Let’s assume you were an admission director for a day. One spot remains for the class of 2019 with two folders in front of…
Read more