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UC Berkeley Common Data Set

Sifting through a college’s Common Data Set can take a lot of time. Instead, we’ve gathered the most important information from UC Berkeley’s most recent Common Data Set to provide you with the information you need at a quick glance. This guide contains key information from UC Berkeley Common Data Set 2025-2026. Berkeley Common Data…

September 13, 2026

High School Academics & Activities
February 23, 2020

Why High School Students Should Look for Internships

Getting work experience is important for whatever you do in life, but starting young is even better. High school internships are on the rise, according to U.S. News, with some high schools encouraging their junior and senior students to complete internships before graduating. However, a recent survey showed that only 2% of high school students…
College Life
February 22, 2020

Why College Students Need a Degree Audit

Most colleges require a student to conduct a degree audit with their academic advisor or the Registrar’s office in their senior year to ensure they will meet all their graduation requirements. But students can access this information as early as freshman year and continue to do so throughout their college career to make sure they…
High School Academics & Activities
February 20, 2020

How to Clean Up Your Social Media for College

“Watch what you put online.” “Remember what happened to all those kids who got their offers rescinded from Harvard?” “Assume that anything and everything you send digitally can come back to haunt you.” Colleges Are Checking Your Teen’s Social Media Like almost all parents at the beginning of college application season, I stressed the importance…
College List Building
February 19, 2020

Brown Common Data Set

Sifting through a college’s Common Data Set can take a lot of time. Instead, we’ve gathered the most important information from Brown’s most recent Common Data Set to provide you with the information you need at a quick glance. This guide contains key information from Brown University’s Common Data Set 2024-2025. Brown Common Data Set…
Find Scholarships
February 14, 2020

Scholarships with March Deadlines

AICPA Scholarship Award for Minority Accounting Students Amount: $3,000-$5,000 Apply by: March 15, 2026 Description: Open to all students of ethnic minorities who are pursuing an undergraduate or graduate-level degree in an accounting or accounting-related major. Sponsor: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants AFA Teens for Alzheimer’s Awareness College Scholarship Essay Contest Amount: $5,000 Apply…
College Credits in High School
February 13, 2020

Georgetown Common Data Set

Our easy to use, quick guide for Common Data Set Georgetown. Get key information and the most important details to look at.
College Life
February 12, 2020

Does a College GPA Matter in the Real World?

I had all but finished the core requirements for my Spanish major following my Junior year abroad. So, my 21-year-old self took the opportunity to simply load up my course schedule with electives that consisted of whatever the heck I felt like taking. These are the actual courses I took my last year of college.…
College Life
February 6, 2020

Mold in College Dorms: What You Need to Know

Here’s a new item of concern for parents planning college visits with their high school students: Check for mold and past mold outbreaks in college dorms. The Impact of Mold in College Dorms Yes, mold. As in fungi. Spores of fungus of various ugly colors that settle in dim, damp spaces. Like the kind than…
College List Building
February 6, 2020

Northwestern Common Data Set

Sifting through a college’s Common Data Set can take a lot of time. Instead, we’ve gathered the most important information from Northwestern’s most recent Common Data Set to provide you with the information you need at a quick glance. This guide contains key information from Northwestern’s Common Data Set 2024-2025. Northwestern Common Data Set Quick…
College Financial Planning
February 4, 2020

How One Mom Side-Hustles to Cover Her Family’s College Costs

Will work for money to keep my daughter’s student loan down! If you live in New Jersey, you may see Lisa Lombardo holding that very sign. No, not really, but Lisa says that she is side hustling to make sure her daughter, Nina, doesn’t have much student loan debt when she graduates. “I’m doing whatever…
College List Building
January 29, 2020

Georgia Tech Common Data Set

Sifting through a college’s Common Data Set can take a lot of time. Instead, we’ve gathered the most important information from Georgia Tech’s most recent Common Data Set to provide you with the information you need at a quick glance. This guide contains key information from Georgia Tech’s Common Data Set 2024-2025. Georgia Tech Common…
Financial Aid Appeals
January 22, 2020

Questions to Ask Before Your Student Accepts Merit Scholarships

If we close our eyes and click our ruby red shoes, like Dorothy, we can dream things will go smoothly in the land of merit scholarships. • You do everything “right.” • Apply to colleges you can almost (theoretically by smoke & miracles) quasi-afford, without utterly crippling yourself in debt. • Apply to colleges that…
College List Building
January 22, 2020

Carnegie Mellon Common Data Set

Sifting through a college’s Common Data Set can take a lot of time. Instead, we’ve gathered the most important information from Carnegie Mellon’s most recent Common Data Set to provide you with the information you need at a quick glance. This guide contains key information from Carnegie Mellon University’s Common Data Set 2024-2025. Carnegie Mellon…
Financial Aid Appeals
January 15, 2020

Appealing Financial Aid: For Some It Works

Here’s the scenario: Your student receives merit aid for college, but you wish it had been more. Even just a bit more. You’ve also received need based aid, but if the merit aid had been higher it would eliminate some financial stress. Did you know that you can ask for more? Yes, you can appeal,…
College List Building
January 15, 2020

NYU Common Data Set

Sifting through a college’s Common Data Set can take a lot of time. Instead, we’ve gathered the most important information from NYU’s most recent Common Data Set to provide you with the information you need at a quick glance. This guide contains key information from New York University’s Common Data Set 2024-2025. NYU Common Data…
College Life
January 14, 2020

Adulting 101: Essential Life Skills for Your Teen

The diploma is in hand and the thank-you notes sent. You’ve spent way too much at Target buying dorm necessities. Suddenly, it hits you: Your child is actually LEAVING your house. Are they ready? I mean, just last week they stood in the wrong line at the DMV for two full hours, then called you…
College Financial Planning
January 11, 2020

Save Early, Live Simply – Advice From Parents on Paying the Tuition Bill

If you live with a high school senior and you’re going through the college admissions process, you know that each new month brings with it a nervous and excited energy. December and January, a frenetic time ordinarily, is even more hectic because it’s time for filling out college and financial aid applications. Then come the…
High school to college
January 11, 2020

College Reveal Parties: Trendy or Tacky?

I remember the dread I felt back in 2007, waiting anxiously for my early admissions decision from my dream school. At the time, I wanted nothing more than to attend NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and someday go on to become an acclaimed movie director. A thick envelope stuffed with registration forms and residential…