LEE SHULMAN BIERER Photo by Robert Kinlaw, collegetownnc.com Last fall, I reached out to Ben Knoble for his wisdom on adjusting to freshman year of college. Ben was a 2016 Ardrey Kell High School graduate and had just started at UNC Chapel Hill. His sage words resonated with...
LEE SHULMAN BIERER Photo by Amanda Nguyen, collegetownnc.com With all the conversation about how tough a year this was for high school seniors applying to college, you might find it surprising that more than 500 colleges and universities still have opportunities for qualified freshmen and/or transfer students for...
By LEE SHULMAN BIERER University of South Carolina students return to the Columbia campus in August 2015. File photo by thestate.com “You shouldn’t have to pay sticker price.” That’s music to college parents’ ears, especially when that sticker price is now topping $70,000 per year at more...
LEE SHULMAN BIERER Matt and Maura Boerio are twin seniors at Providence High School in Charlotte, headed off to separate colleges in the fall. Photo by the Boerio family D-day, or Decision Day, or what is formally known as National Decision Day, May 1, is finally in...
LEE SHULMAN BIERER Photo by UNC Asheville, which uses the Common Application. The Common Application, commonly referred to as Common App, a not-for-profit membership organization that is committed to advancing college access, recently added 38 new members. Four are from North Carolina: Appalachian State University, Barton College,...
LEE SHULMAN BIERER Photo by Wofford College/Mark Olencki The faucet is turned on. What once was a trickle now appears to be a steady stream. According to the nonprofit National Center for Fair and Open Testing (www.fairtest.org), more than 950 accredited schools no longer require standardized testing. Wofford...
LEE SHULMAN BIERER The dreaded wait-list. You weren’t rejected, but you weren’t accepted either. The wait-list means the colleges like you well-enough, they just don’t love you enough to accept you. They want to keep you hanging on until they find out if they’re loved back by...
Photo by the News & ObserverMarch 31 was D-Day, or decision day, for high school seniors. Colleges have finally released their decisions, and students know whether they have been accepted, denied or if they have been given an opportunity to stay on a college’s wait-list. This was...
By Lee Shulman Bierer If you picture yourself in the college admissions officer’s chair, reviewing application after application, you’ll have a better sense of why it matters so much how you spend your time outside of school. What you do in your spare time tells them what you...
By LEE SHULMAN BIERER Right about now, as the parents of sophomores and juniors are scheduling flights, renting cars, making hotel reservations and booking spring break campus tours, this whole “college thing” becomes eerily real. I thought this would be a good occasion to speak with two...
