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Written by Lisa Bleich Baylor University is an unapologetically Christian university located in Waco, TX. The campus is expansive and quite beautiful with outstanding facilities, especially the [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich University of Houston is an urban campus with a racially and ethnically diverse student body. It has several excellent pre-professional programs including hospitality (with [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich I spent the last week doing a Texas College Tour around Central Texas. The local government has communicated a clear message to its public institutions: “Graduate students [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich Rice is a beautiful, expansive campus with a southwestern style architecture set right in Houston. The central quad is quite pretty surrounded by red brick buildings. [...]

Written by Beth Cassie James Madison University, located in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley, is another of Virginia’s outstanding public universities. The 720 acres campus is divided in two by [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is located right in downtown Richmond. The urban feeling permeates the campus from the eclectic set of buildings to the pretty park [...]

As Independent Educational Consultants, we are often asked to weigh in on this question. Since colleges accept both tests equally, we typically advise students to determine which test suits them [...]

For kids lucky enough to live with both of their biological parents, filling in the Parent information on the FAFSA is straightforward.  But what if your parents are divorced, deceased, or just [...]

Here is a great write-up of Alabama institutions written by Nancy Griesemer who visited the colleges with an IECA tour. On the road in Alabama with the Independent Educational Consultants [...]

Written by Beth Cassie. University of Mary Washington was perhaps the most surprising of the colleges we visited on our Virginia tour. Everything about this school looks and feels like a private [...]