college
November 26, 2025
Situated on the northwest corner of 43rd Street and Broadway, this outpost of Touro with an enrollment of 2500 students is a modern high rise whose big windows face the building from which the ball is dropped on New Year's Eve - my angled look upwards revealed the ball perched atop the building - and whose rear windows overlook the theater where Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is playing on 43rd Street and the site of Madame Tussaud’s wax museum on 42nd Street.
November 10, 2025
The simple truth is that college admissions are unfair - and the system works to the advantage of the colleges, not to the students. This year alone, I have seen early applications spike in my practice with students applying to 15 or more schools often in a very short period of time - by November 1 of senior year. Even though they have already been accepted to a few, they keep on applying.
August 1, 2019
Just nine minutes from Los Angeles International Airport, Loyola Marymount University (LMU) seems worlds away. Sitting on a high hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the upscale residential community of Playa Vista in the heart of LA’s Silicon […]
June 14, 2019
One of the perks of this career is the opportunity to not just visit and revisit a wide range of colleges, but also to visit a vast array of locations, many of which I certainly would not have […]
May 5, 2019
Kwame Anthony-Applah, who teaches philosophy at NYU, penned this article in “The Ethicist” column of The New York Times Magazine, May 5, 2019, in response to a high school senior’s distress over her many college denials. It’s long […]
May 3, 2019
I respect the sciences and what they have brought to my world: the ability to read at night; to drive or take the train or fly to visit friends and family; to not worry about polio or small […]
April 5, 2019
If I had to name three adjectives to describe Mount Holyoke College, I would say homey, personable and confident. When I look back on my notes from the first time I was on campus, I also would add […]
March 15, 2019
What a week of revelations about college admissions! Today’s Inside Higher Education features an article about a committee of which I am proud to be a member, the Character Collaborative, whose work is even more timely and important […]
November 15, 2018
If I had one word to tell parents of high school students applying to college, it’s perspective. Your students are capable, but please remember that they are mostly 17-year-olds. Their responses to doing the work necessary to apply, […]
October 19, 2018
If you couldn’t make it to the Inside the Admissions Office program at the JCC of Mid-Westchester on Monday, October 15th, don’t worry. This blog gives you the highlights of that dynamic evening with a panel of admissions deans from across […]