U Chicago: Where Fun Goes to Thrive
Looking for the admissions office, walking through a grand archway, not knowing exactly what was to come, we were stunned by the...
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Beth & Tim Manners
May 15, 20194 min read
Wisconsin Tour: Small City, Big Campus
Located in a capital city and with a total student population of about 44,000, it would seem a given that the University of Wisconsin at...
Beth & Tim Manners
May 14, 20194 min read
Beloit Tour: Keep an Eye on this Turtle
If it weren’t directly on the path between Chicago and Madison, we might have missed Beloit College, and that would have been a shame....
Beth & Tim Manners
May 13, 20193 min read
Northwestern Tour: Warm and Windy
Given its rigorous academics and selective admissions, one would not expect life at Northwestern University to be a day at the beach. Yet...
Beth & Tim Manners
Apr 30, 20194 min read
JMU Tour: Sweet Smell of Success
Feels big! That was our first impression as our shuttle bus pulled up to the Festival Student Center in the Skyline area of the James...
Beth & Tim Manners
Apr 29, 20194 min read
UVA Tour: It Takes an Academical Village
His name was invoked no less than four times during the first five minutes of our UVA tour. Thomas Jefferson is known for many things,...
Beth & Tim Manners
Apr 26, 20193 min read
Richmond Tour: Leaders in Leadership
It would be easy to dismiss the University of Richmond as just another pretty campus in Virginia. It really is beautiful. Every one of...
Beth & Tim Manners
Apr 25, 20194 min read
College Tour: William & Mary Surprises
The most surprising thing about the College of William & Mary isn’t that it was built with pirate money (true story, look it up). Nor is...
Beth & Tim Manners
Apr 15, 20193 min read
Drexel Tour: It’s What’s Inside That Counts
Crossing Market Street in Philadelphia is like leaving one universe and entering another: from the ivory toweriness of the University of...
Beth & Tim Manners
Apr 11, 20193 min read
Penn Tour: Be What You Seem, Really
Yes, it exhibits everything one would expect at an “ivy league” school: a grand, bustling green campus, suitably majestic and imposing...
Beth & Tim Manners
Mar 29, 20192 min read
How Campus Visits Alter Student Goals
Chalkbeat: “When researchers asked hundreds of eighth-graders living near Arkansas’s flagship university whether they’d ever visited a...
Beth & Tim Manners
Mar 5, 20192 min read
U of Delaware: Five Things You Might Not Know
The University of Delaware campus somehow manages to be inviting even in the dead of winter, when most of its palpable energy moves...
Beth & Tim Manners
Feb 21, 20192 min read
College Tours: Providence & Bryant
Our students sometimes comment that their college campus tours are a blur, that one seems pretty much like the next. This is...
Beth & Tim Manners
Jan 23, 20191 min read
Student YouTube: A Lens Into Campus Life
Chronicle of Higher Education: “Search any college’s name and you’re likely to see a student-produced dorm-room tour or move-in day video...
Beth & Tim Manners
Dec 11, 20181 min read
The Tower & Girl of UT Austin
“The Main Building and its tower were originally designed to serve as the campus central library … librarians were stationed on every...
Beth & Tim Manners
Sep 20, 20181 min read
College Tour Tips
US News: “The fall months – September through early December – can be extremely busy for high school juniors and seniors … In light of...
Beth & Tim Manners
Sep 24, 20171 min read
Harvey Mudd: STEM ‘Boot Camp’
Business Insider: “Located in Claremont, California is an 829-person liberal arts college that might go unnoticed to the uninitiated....
Beth & Tim Manners
Nov 22, 20161 min read
‘Hotel at Oberlin’ Reflects College’s Values
The New York Times: “Oberlin, like many other colleges and universities around the country, has decided that campus guest quarters,...
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