Written by: Lisa Bleich & Alex Leventhal UCI is a sprawling campus. Most students get around on bicycles or electric scooters. In fact the center campus probably has more bike paths than [...]

Seattle University is a Jesuit Catholic university located in the heart of Seattle. Eight colleges and schools offer more than 120 undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs to SeattleU’s [...]

University of Washington We could barely see the football stadium through the fog as we drove along the tree-lined hill leading to campus. As promised the (atypical) fog lifted by late morning [...]

Santa Clara University is a selective mid-sized Jesuit school located in Silicon Valley, about 50 miles from San Francisco and 15 miles from Palo Alto. The Spanish architecture and lush gardens [...]

The Uber driver left us off on campus where we were supposed to meet the other 50+ independent educational consultants for breakfast in the Greek Theater.  It gave us a chance to walk across the [...]

University of Colorado Boulder College Visit Review #CUBoulder When we heard that The Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA) spring conference was going to be held in Denver, [...]

University of Denver #DU University of Denver (DU) is medium sized private college in Denver, Colorado.  The campus is a mix of newer red brick buildings and mid-century western architecture.  [...]

Written by Lisa Bleich I was out visiting my Dad in Los Angeles so we decided to visit the Claremont Colleges right after he picked me up from the airport. It took about an hour to get there from [...]

College review by Lisa BleichIn one of the most beautiful locations in the world set among glorious mountains and a glistening lake, sits Sierra Nevada College, a small liberal arts college.  It [...]

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 New York Film Academy rolled out the red carpet for our visit to Los Angeles, literally, as they set up the opening cocktail party on the ‘European’ [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich UC Davis is a beautiful, flat campus nestled between Sacramento and the Salinas Valley.  It’s about an hour’s drive from San Francisco.  Davis has [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich and Beth Cassie University of California, Berkeley or “Cal” as it is known is California’s flagship public university.  I visited there during the summer when only a [...]

College review by Diane Forman In early February, I was invited to visit Chapel Haven West in Tucson, Arizona and also visited Arizona State University and the University of Arizona with my [...]

Diane Forman In early February, I was invited to visit Chapel Haven West in Tucson, Arizona and also visited Arizona State University and the University of Arizona with my colleague, Linda [...]

University of Southern California (USC) Lisa Bleich Last week I toured the University of Southern California while visiting my family in Los Angeles; my parents accompanied me on the tour.  My [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Pepperdine has a gorgeous campus that sits on top of a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Malibu.  There are beautiful vistas everywhere you look from the [...]

Visited by Abby PowerNovember, 2016 I visited USC in November, on the eve of the big game against UCLA. The Trojans have a tradition of wrapping all of the statues on campus to protect them from [...]

Stanford University Beth Cassie Thirty-five miles south of San Francisco I took a break from vacation to visit Stanford University – California’s flagship private university. The campus was [...]

College review by Beth Cassie Thirty-five miles south of San Francisco I took a break from vacation to visit Stanford University – California’s flagship private university. The campus was unlike [...]

College review by Diane Forman Marymount College is located along the coastline of Southern California in Palos Verdes.  It is a small (maximum of 793 students), catholic school that provides a [...]