This year’s Common App launched Friday, August 1st. Luckily, after a rocky implementation last year of a new generation of the Common App, the early experience of the 2014 version is going smoothly! Rising seniors can now register for an account, complete the Common App form, add their colleges, and ...
Students are often faced with the daunting decision of whether or not to hold a part-time job while studying full-time in college. Some find that work-study programs are a necessity to fund their college costs, but others who are not burdened by financial need still like having pocket money or ...
College students are faced with many choices, often very early on. One such choice is whether or not to participate in Greek life. From 2005 to 2013, fraternity membership grew about 40 percent, according to the Wall Street Journal. Despite this substantial increase in participation, thoughts regarding Greek life remain ...
St Andrews has it all! The land, the sea, the history and traditions. Founded in the early 15th century, St Andrews is Scotland’s oldest and top-ranked university. The idyllic haven in which to pursue scholarly endeavors. The lasting legacy of Kate Middleton capturing Prince Williams' heart, sharing dates in the ...
So, you’ve decided that the University of Oxford is a great fit for your intellectual curiosity and passion for classics, physics, law, or another of the fifty courses offered at Oxford. Now what? For an introduction to Oxford, read our previous blog here. Students can only apply to one Oxford ...
Visiting the University of Oxford is a truly breathtaking experience that extends beyond the magnificence of the architecture and the intellectual energy in the air. For starters, it's really, really old. Not old like your grandmother's Steinway piano is old, but old in the way that your grandmother's great-grandmother's great-grandmother ...
Over the past 24 hours, Collegiate Gateway has received many questions from students and parents about whether to cancel SAT Subject Test scores from last Saturday, June 7. Cancellations need to be received in writing by 11:59pm tomorrow, Wednesday June 11. Generally, it is not advisable to cancel Subject Tests, ...
Education and employment in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math) are key to economic growth in the US, according to the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee 2012 report. At the center of all these disciplines is computer science: within five years, most of the jobs in STEM fields will ...
I was recently quoted in this fascinating article in Time on the the college admissions system—and how to fix it! “Many families place too much reliance on the U.S. News rankings to make decisions about which colleges their students should apply to,” says Julie Gross, president and founder of ...
The SAT has recently undergone a major overhaul – the biggest since 2005, and maybe the biggest ever. The College Board, spurred by a growing chorus of criticism of the SAT, as well as the success of the ACT, has re-envisioned the test on both practical and philosophical levels. Originally ...