Allison Slater Tate, college admissions expert and high school counselor, has an important message for families about this ...

Collegewise is reaching higher one year after being acquired by Singapore-based A-Star Education Holdings, formerly ChangedEDU Holdings, for an undisclosed sum. The Irvine-based company, which calls ...

Indeed, the image of the independent counselor has gone from villain—five years ago Varsity Blues mastermind Rick Singer became the unwanted poster child for the profession—to deity. Counselors have ...

Shannon Vasconcelos fired up her laptop in a sterile conference room in a suburban office park. Right on schedule, a mother and her daughter popped up on her screen. The pair was in the Adirondacks on ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Our society's focus on "brand name" colleges has contributed to the intense competition for college admission. Legitimate coaches and counselors work with students to give them a leg ...

Everything is soooo different now than when we went to college in the ‘90s and ‘00s. From the Common App (yay!) to terrifyingly tiny acceptance rates (boo!), so much about the application process has ...

Kayla Missman specializes in making complicated topics more approachable. She has eight years of experience in journalism, editing and marketing, allowing her to dive into interesting topics and ...

The National Association for College Admission Counseling is discontinuing its Online College Fair program, which used Internet chat rooms to link prospective students to college administrators. The ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The U.S. Justice Department's college admissions investigation is casting a dark shadow over the independent college counseling industry. One popular Brentwood counselor said he ...

Colloquy: Join an online discussion on whether Congress should step in to limit the growth of early-decision admissions policies, which critics say are unfair to financially needy and minority ...

The College Board honored Olympia Tuliaupupu, a Westmont College admissions counselor and liaison to diversity outreach, with the Ned Tibby Award at the board’s 29th annual Summer Institute on College ...

Welcome to the sensationalized world of independent college counseling, those private tutors–slash–coaches who guide students and families through the often frustrating and rejective (Yale’s ...