The list of high quality colleges and universities in the United States is anything but brief. Yet, among the many, eight stand out. They are perceived bastions of academic excellence. They have substantial endowments and a rock star line-up of professors on tenure. They have been around, in some cases, longer [...]
Going off to college may mean leaving behind Mom and Dad, but it does mean picking up a new, mysterious cohabitant, your roommate. College freshmen overwhelmingly either choose to, or are required to, live in dorms. At some schools there exists the option of single inhabitant rooms, but these are few and far between. For [...]
In terms of higher education, the University of California system is certainly well known, and is home to several prestigious schools. The colleges carrying the UC moniker include campuses in Berkeley, Los Angeles, Davis, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Irvine, Merced, and Riverside, of which the first three are considered to be most prominent. [...]
For students, fall of senior year means creating a list – the list – of schools to which applications will be sent in hopes of many happy returns. There are some who make the list more consistently than others, Ivy leaguers, big state schools. Some students’ lists have a catalog of small, private liberal arts [...]
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