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March 14, 2016
I spent Leap Day on a return trip to the bucolic campus of Occidental College in the Eagle Rock section of Los Angeles, where the atmosphere is intellectual and students are politically and socially aware and active. Students […]
February 23, 2016
Ask an Adviser: How can my kid get an athletic scholarship? For an example of the kind of smart advice the experts have to offer, here’s Betsy Woolf, an educational consultant based in New York, on how to […]
January 25, 2016
The second oldest school in the United States, the College of William & Mary is a “Public Ivy” located in Williamsburg, Virginia, a city known for the historic recreation of Colonial Williamsburg. This is a college of great […]
January 24, 2016
I could never have forgotten the beauty of the University of Richmond, a bucolic campus I first visited ten years ago. Emphasizing a foundation in the liberal arts, its new president, Ronald Crutcher, says that UR is a […]
October 22, 2015
The 8th annual Inside the Admissions program was a great success. Deans and directors from Case Western Reserve University, College of Charleston, Franklin & Marshall College, University of Chicago, University of Rochester and University of Virginia shared their […]
September 23, 2015
*The last time I visited the University of San Diego, I toured a beautiful mission-style campus overlooking Mission Bay, and that has not changed. The emphasis is on the three Cs: collaboration, creativity and critical thinking in its […]
June 2, 2015
Betsy is featured on CollegeXpress where she gives insight and advice on college consulting (with a little ‘fun stuff’ that will help you get to know her better). Read about it here
May 21, 2015
Ah, Cambridge. It’s the quintessential charming English town, with rambling streets filled with quaint stores, restaurants, tea shops, taverns, even a canal, with most colleges clustered in and around central Cambridge. And of course, tourists. Like Oxford, Cambridge […]
May 19, 2015
My first view of the City of Oxford, after leaving the high speed train from London, was of the place where I would be staying during my visit, a former prison located in a medieval castle that had […]
March 18, 2015
One of my most interesting academic classes occurred on the subject of writing at the University of Chicago on a visit in early March. It was a sample of the education at a college where students unabashedly proclaim […]