College Visits

College review by Lisa Bleich RIT’s nickname is “The Brick City” due to the preponderance of brick buildings throughout.  The campus looks more like a corporate park than a college campus on the [...]

College review by Debbie Pearlson Lisa, Beth and I spent a recent chilly and overcast February day visiting the campus of Montclair State University. MSU is the second largest public university [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich I taught marketing full time at Whittier College from 2002-2004.  When I left, Whittier was a 1,200 student small liberal arts college with financial troubles and [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich UCLA is a beautiful terra-cotta colored brick campus set between three exclusive LA neighborhoods, Bel Air, Brentwood, and Westwood.  Westwood Village is right [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Chapman University has grown tremendously over the past 10 years from 1,500 to 6,000 undergraduate students. During the initial stages of the growth, selectivity was [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Loyola Marymount University (LMU) sits high upon a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean right near Los Angeles Airport.  The buildings are a mix of [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Georgia Tech has a very pretty, traditional looking, contained campus right in the center of Atlanta.  The student body is highly diverse; 40% of the student [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich My daughter and I took a post-Hurricane Sandy break and spent the last few days in Atlanta, GA visiting Emory University and Georgia Tech. For our first exposure to [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich and Beth Cassie Beth and I recently visited The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) as part of a counselor’s visit day. The campus is quite impressive. TCNJ looks beautiful [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich We took advantage of our vacation in the Berkshires to visit Williams College.We drove along the bucolic, windy, one lane highway passing large fields and not much [...]