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Demonstrated Interest and College Admissions

I’ve written about demonstrated interest before, but as spring approaches it makes sense to discuss it once again.

College Testing

PSAT Info

For those of you who have not yet signed up for the PSAT or the PLAN (pre-ACT), here is a piece of advice: Do…

College News

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…

Campus Visits

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…

College News

Hampshire Flounders

Hampshire College is turning 50 next year. But that’s only if they can survive until then.

Campus Visits

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…

Campus Visits

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…

College News

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…

College News

Clamping Down on Fraternities

It is no secret that in the past few years fraternities have been involved in some irresponsible, even deadly, behavior.

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A look back on past insights from Plan the Path

Blog Archive

Demonstrated Interest and College Admissions

PSAT Info

Big Data on Campus

Take It From Me:

Hampshire Flounders

Franklin & Marshall College

Dickinson College

Student Loan Debt

Clamping Down on Fraternities

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