Sauk Valley Media: Author Offers Advice for College-Bound Teens

The best paths to college are amazon.com and the local public library, an author told high school students Monday.

Stanford Professional Women of Los Angeles: Interview with Robin Mamlet

When you served as Dean of Admission and Financial Aid at Stanford from 2000-05, what did you find to be your greatest challenges? There are challenges, and then there is just stuff you don’t enjoy so much.

Nevada Appeal: Book Simplifies College Admission Process

“College Admission: From Application to Acceptance, Step By Step,” co-written by Robin Mamlet and Christine Vandevelde, offers one of the finest, if not the finest, books on college planning on the market today.

Family Goes Strong: The Gap Year: A Good Idea?

Like his bride-to-be, Kate Middleton, Prince William took off a year between high school and college. In fact, the royal website boasts about it: "Like many students, The Duke of Cambridge chose to have a gap year before beginning his university course in order to travel and gain a variety of new experiences." Is it OK for regular folks (such as your sons and daughters) to follow the Kate and Will's example and not head straight to college? Yes.

The Washington Post: College admissions: How diversity factors in

Valerie Strauss features our post on The Answer Sheet at the Washington Post featuring CalTech Dean of Admissions Jarrid Whitney on how diversity is considered in the college admission process...

The Wall Street Journal: An Op-Ed

In his recently unveiled Blueprint for College Affordability, President Obama calls for "collecting earnings and employment information for colleges and universities, so that students can have an even better sense of the life they'll be able to build once they graduate." In other words, the government wants to publish statistics on what graduates earn after leaving Harvard or Ohio State or Duke.

StudentAdvisor.com: One College Admissions Book to Rule Them All?

Are you overwhelmed by the number of books out there that promise to clue you in on the nerve-racking college admissions process? Us too! But every now and then one college admissions book comes along and proves itself to be a real "game changer"

NY Times India Ink blog: Indian Student’s Guide to the SAT and ACT

Standardized tests are important when applying to American colleges and universities, but do not play the same decisive role in admission as they do in India. Admission to American institutions of higher education is not based solely on a student’s performance on a single set of exams. The results of several standardized tests —

Family Goes Strong: Getting Into College - Demystified

Top universities are reporting record-breaking numbers of wanna-be students. Stanford, for example, admits only 2,400 or so freshmen each year but received 36,744 applications this year. What can you, the