BY LEE SHULMAN BIERER Attending your local college fair is a great way for students and parents to dip their toes in the waters of college exploration. It’s crazy loud, crazy crowded and yes, a little intimidating, but it’s a harmless first exposure that often yields...
The saying goes … “It is easier to make a big school smaller than it is to make a small school bigger.” Shortly after the decisions roll in, high school seniors often find themselves deciding between a small private college and a larger university. One way to...
Now that the heavy-lifting is done on college applications and the students have had a bit of a break from sharing their innermost thoughts in college essays, it’s time to gear up and start searching for ways to pay for their dreams. One of the biggest...
The main entrance to the Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine- Leon Levine Hall of Medical Sciences in Buies Creek, N.C. The school's main building, a 96,500-square-foot facility, consists of classrooms and laboratories, and cost about $39 million to build. Facts and Stats: Campbell offers an...
Colleges started notifying students who applied either Early Action or Early Decision beginning in December. Students who applied through an Early program receive one of three possible responses: Accepted, Rejected or Deferred. It’s easy to understand the first two (Accepted and Rejected) but many students...
What parent or child doesn’t dream of that photograph on “Signing Day” when that big athletic scholarship for their child is real. After all those practices and games in the freezing cold and the blaring heat, after all that carpooling, the snack assignments and the...
Ben Knoble, a 2016 graduate of Ardrey Kell High School in Charlotte and a first-year student at UNC Chapel Hill shared his wisdom about what was a very successful first semester; both academically and socially. Last week Ben’s responses focused more on the academic transition from...
I thought it would be helpful to hear directly from a first-year (freshman) student about their first semester survival secrets. Ben Knoble, a 2016 Ardrey Kell High School graduate, was back home in Charlotte for the holidays after spending his first semester at UNC Chapel...
Last week I wrote about the unexpected perks of attending a large school. I say unexpected, because most people make assumptions that large schools are impersonal places where students are only focused on athletics and partying. We are lucky to have so many great choices of...
To the casual observer, news from large colleges and universities is often more focused on athletic championships and unfortunate scandals. Big schools are frequently labeled negatively as institutions that are obsessed with sports and partying and/or factories that are pumping out more graduates each year,...
