Thank you Carol Montrose of www.BestColleges.org, for this great guest post! Read on so we can discuss Carol's suggestions below. These are some very helpful tips just in time for back-to-school. Your kids are probably relying on you to keep track of relevant information pertaining to their upcoming college career.  This means you need to be [...]

Our college-bound journey has been cleared for takeoff.  I am not going anywhere, though I wish this trip really included travel to a far, exotic place. Alas, this voyage is one we’ve been planning for a while and includes more emotional baggage than I care to pack so soon. We started working on this itinerary [...]

The film “Race to Nowhere“  tackles the topic of over-scheduled, stressed out school-age children and their parents eager to secure a spot not only in a college, but a 'good' college. We need some balance. The scale is tipping more and more in one direction, and “Race” is the counterbalance demonstrating the need to re-center [...]

Warwick's Bookstore in La Jolla, CA hosted  Senior Vice-President and Publisher Rob Franek, The Princeton Review’s author of  371 Best Colleges, 2010 Edition one of Franek's most popular publications for the college-bound set. Alex Valle and author Rob Franek Parents and teens filled the store anxious to get advise on how to choose the right college and navigate the [...]