Rutgers University, New Brunswick College Visit Review by Lisa Bleich In 2012 Rutgers began a decade long movement to improve their national reputation and rankings with the appointment of Robert [...]

Rutgers Honors College Visit Review by Lisa Bleich Rutgers Honors College The Rutgers Honors College was created three years ago and will have its first graduating class in May, 2019.  The Honors [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Syracuse University feels like a large, state school, with state-of-the art amenities at every turn. The indoor sports stadium is outstanding and among the four [...]

We visited American University as part of the HECA International Relations tour of DC area schools.  My overall impressions remained the same as my previous visit, but there are several important [...]

Personalized, engaged learning characterizes Washington College. Set in historic Chestertown, Maryland, this homey campus comprised of mostly low-rise brick buildings is charming and unassuming. [...]

Visited by Lisa Bleich and Beth CassieMay, 2016 We spent a week in Washington DC touring colleges through an international relations/studies lens.  We were fortunate to stay right in the [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich My overall impressions remained the same as my previous visit, but with several important changes regarding the campus facilities, admissions selectivity, financial aid and [...]

Visited by Lisa Bleich The students looked happy, attractive, diverse, engaged and excited to be there.  Jaime from admissions described Georgetown students as sociable, friendly, sharp, and [...]

Visited by Abby Power Georgetown oozes history and tradition — the school colors are based on Union and Confederate uniforms, President Obama just gave a speech from the same podium as did [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich (1/16) We arrived on Colgate’s campus just as the snow was starting to fall. The campus was just as beautiful as I remembered and my daughter, Kayla, was also [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich I recently went to visit Colgate with my youngest daughter. We arrived on Colgate’s campus just as the snow was starting to fall. The campus was just as beautiful as [...]

Written by Beth Cassie Lisa and I (along with a group of independent counselors attending a conference in Baltimore) toured Johns Hopkins University one week after riots rocked the city of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich. The University of Richmond boasts one of the most beautiful college campuses in the country. Set amidst large, forest like trees, along side a lake with charming trails [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich. William and Mary is a beautiful, expansive campus where old, ancient and new intermingle. Its historic setting in Colonial Williamsburg, VA compliments the deep history [...]

Written by Beth Cassie. Christopher Newport University (CNU) is the newest public university in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Established 50 years ago as a two-year, primarily commuter school, [...]

Visited by Lisa Bleich and Beth Cassie The University of Virginia, Virginia’s flagship university is arguably one of the top public universities in the country. Walking around UVA’s colonial red [...]

Written by Beth Cassie We attended a great presentation in NYC jointly hosted by the Newhouse School of Public Communications and the School of Information Studies (iSchool) at Syracuse [...]

College reviewed by Lisa Bleich I recently visited Cooper Union, a conservatory-based college for Art, Architecture, and Engineering. The campus is integrated into lower Manhattan and Astor [...]

Written by Beth Cassie We attended an informative presentation in New York, jointly hosted by the Newhouse School of Public Communications and Syracuse University’s School of Information [...]

Beth Cassie recently toured various schools in Pennsylvania, including the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University.  She reported her findings on the College Bound Mentor College [...]

College review by Beth Cassie Allegheny College is located in Meadville, PA and is a real gem that feels more ‘Midwest than Pennsylvania’. With 2,100 students total, this is a one of the schools [...]

College review by Beth Cassie * update* The University of Pittsburgh campus is concentrated within a quarter square mile of the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Oakland is the educational, [...]

Written by Beth Cassie * Update* I spent two days on Penn State’s main campus, primarily touring the athletic facilities. I arrived on Friday morning, the day before the first home football game. [...]

Recently I visited Hofstra University, which is located 25 miles east of Manhattan in Hempstead, Long Island. Hofstra is a midsize university with approximately 7,000 undergraduate students. [...]

The quad at the University of Maryland is beautiful and mirrors the quintessential American university campus portrayed in Hollywood movies. Brick academic buildings line the perimeter, an [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich The University of Rochester is a pretty brick campus with two main quads and a river that runs along side the main campus.  There are two other campuses; the [...]

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 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 Beth Cassie We took the subway up to Columbia and literally steps from the 116th Street station we entered the Columbia campus.  Columbia has a distinct, gated campus in the [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Susquehanna University is a very pretty campus, all brick and lots of green, set against a farm background. The school is very laid-back as is the student body. The [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Preppy, work hard-play hard mentality describes the Bucknell student body. We were there on a cold, rainy day, but it did not take away from the beauty of the campus [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich This 230 plus year old college, located in the small, but quaint town of Carlisle is a lovely, limestone campus with a large green quad and a mix of old and new [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Set in the lovely town of Lancaster, Franklin and Marshal is a beautiful, brick campus. Downtown Lancaster is about a 15 minute walk from campus with lots of cute [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Students at Drexel are no-nonsense, down-to-earth and thrive in a hands-on learning environment. They come for the co-op education and Drexel has been good at [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Bustling with energy, bands playing, student club tables, and swarms of people aptly describes University of Pennsylvania during my visit. I arrived on admitted [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Hamilton sits a top a hill in a picturesque environment.  The buildings are colorful, quaint, and state-of-the art.  It feels as if you are in a resort [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Skidmore is a beautiful campus that almost feels like a summer camp lined with trees and wooded areas.  The colored fall leaves made the campus particularly [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Union is a very pretty, campus with built in the shape of a U with building surrounding a large green in the center of campus. Union was the first non-denominational [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Rensselaer is trying to move away from its former acronym RPI to put more emphasis on programs outside of engineering.  Approximately 60% of the 5,500 students [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich We started the morning walking around Carnegie Mellon and had a better impression in the light of day.  The campus is self-contained, with the city right [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) is a very pretty campus in Bronxville, NY about 35 minutes north of Manhattan.  The SLC curriculum is modeled after the Oxford and [...]

College review by Beth Cassie DeSales University is a Catholic university in the Lehigh Valley with a focus on hands-on learning.  DeSales is relatively “new”, founded in 1964.  The campus is a [...]

College review by Beth Cassie Cedar Crest College is a small women’s college in the Lehigh Valley.  The campus is an arboretum, and the day I visited, everything was in full bloom. My tour [...]

College review by Beth Cassie I visited Lafayette College in Easton, PA on an unseasonably warm April day, and students were taking full advantage of the weather.  The campus is beautiful with [...]

College review by Beth Cassie “Do you have your hiking shoes on?” At every turn when I mentioned I was going to visit Lehigh this warning was issued.  True to its reputation, Lehigh is a vertical [...]

College review by Linda Kay, guest blogger Rowan University, one of the state universities in New Jersey, is located in Glassboro in the southwestern corner of the state, 18 miles southeast of [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Ursinus is a very pretty small liberal arts college about 40 minutes outside of Philadelphia. The surrounding area has a suburban feel with nice stores and [...]

Beth Cassie Marist Located along the shores of the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie, NY, Marist is a mid-sized liberal arts college (approximately 4,700 undergrads) with a strong career-oriented [...]

College review by Beth Cassie Located along the shores of the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie, NY, Marist is a mid-sized liberal arts college (approximately 4,700 undergrads) with a [...]

College review by Beth Cassie Vassar *update* Feb. 2012- I visited Vassar earlier this fall and had a similar overall impression of the college.  We arrived early to campus and were waiting [...]

By Stefanie Forman In the heart of tree-lined Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, Pratt Institute is a hub of contagious creativity. When touring the campus (which is home to about 4,000 [...]

College review by Diane Forman and Linda Kay, guest blogger Nestled in the Lehigh Valley, in the City of Bethlehem, PA is a little gem of a school called Moravian College. Moravian is a private, [...]

College review by Diane Forman and Linda Kay, guest blogger McDaniel is a small liberal arts college that is a member of the Colleges that Change Lives.  Professors are there to help the students [...]

College review by Diane Forman and Linda Kay, guest blogger Gettysburg College is a small liberal arts college located in Gettysburg, PA, site of the Battle of Gettysburg.  Students enjoy [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich and Beth Cassie Beth and I visited Villanova University last week.  As we pulled up to campus, the grey stone buildings and pretty landscapes impressed us.  Of [...]

Beth Cassie This past week, I joined my nephew from Texas as he visited two colleges in New York City — New York University and Columbia University.  NYC was the final leg of his marathon Spring [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Immense, global, “In the city, of the city”; “in the world of the world”, friendly, diverse, independent, exciting, bustling, filled with opportunities, [...]

This past week, my daughter and I continued on our college visits with a new parameter of being within a 2-hour drive from our home in New Jersey.  As I’ve mentioned before, the college [...]

College review by Diane Forman Dec. 2011 – RU is expanding and updating their facilities as we learned on Dec 6th during a very informative counselors day. The Livingston Campus in [...]

College review by Beth Cassie Swarthmore Update Feb. 2012 –  I, too, spent a week at Swarthmore, but as a student in the IECA Summer Institute program.  During the week I became very [...]

West Chester University Part of the state university system of Pennsylvania.  West Chester University is a medium-large sized school, approximately 14,000 undergraduate students and 2,300 [...]

Johns Hopkins 2015 update Written by Beth Cassie Lisa and I (along with a group of independent counselors attending a conference in Baltimore) toured Johns Hopkins University one week after riots [...]

Marymount Manhattan is a small liberal arts college, approximately 2,000 undergraduate students, located in the heart of Manhattan.  It is a city campus and there are three dorm option; one on [...]

I spent a glorious day visiting American University. Clear-blue, sunny, warm skies; flowers in bloom; students clad in sun dresses, shorts, and flip flops playing frisbee on the grass abounded on [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich I had a private tour of University of Delaware last week and found the campus quite attractive and offered a lot to a wide range of students. Even though Delaware is [...]

Wagner has a wonderful location perched atop a hill overlooking Manhattan. The school boasts amazing views from many of the dorm rooms and the student center, however many of the buildings are [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich I spent a week last month touring a variety of colleges in Pennsylvania, starting with Philadelphia schools such as University of Pennsylvania, University of the [...]

I spent a week last month touring a variety of colleges in Pennsylvania, starting with Philadelphia schools such as University of Pennsylvania, University of the Arts and Drexel, making my way to [...]