Craig Meister is president of Tactical College Consulting, a Baltimore-based college admissions consultancy that specializes in giving students the tools they need to find and get into their best-fit college.
With the economy in the dumps, more and more high school students are encouraged to get an undergraduate degree - despite the costs - if they are to have any chance at earning a nice paycheck as an adult. Yet, not...
It's nice to hear that Baltimore City is aggressively promoting to students in its high schools the variety of college financial aid options that exist to fund students' higher education.
Many parents and students still feel that...
University of Maryland College Park is a hot school right now. More out-of-state students are looking to attend because of the quality of the university's programs at the same time as more in-state students are looking...
University of Maryland Baltimore County is the first member of the University System of Maryland that has awaken to the value of the Common Application. As one of twenty seven new member colleges to the streamlined one-stop-shop application...
Helicopter parents - parents always present to monitor their children's actions - not only serve to make their children more dependent; they also have a better chance of producing neurotic, anxious, and more close-minded children, says a new study.In...
Each spring, college visit season begins in earnest for local high school juniors, and Baltimore area students should consider themselves lucky when it comes to having the tools necessary to figure out what type of college is right for them...
The question should be, "when did return on investment cease to matter when making decisions about which college to attend and which major to select?"
The New York Times delves into the growing career-orientation of both students...
The F-word - fear - has caused more students to opt to apply to college "early decision," an option that promises early news of a decision but also binds a student to going to a college if he or...
There is word from the University System of Maryland that incoming freshmen may soon be required to take four years of math in high school instead of the current three in order to be admitted to state schools.
The news...