Beth & Tim MannersMay 42 minScreening College Options from HomeThe New York Times: "High school juniors hoping to begin college in the fall of 2021 are not able to visit campuses in person, but they a...
Beth & Tim MannersApr 282 minPixel Dust: College Tours Go VirtualThe New York Times: "Virtual coffees with college students for high school juniors. Zoom sessions between applicants and admissions offic...
Beth & Tim MannersMar 171 min7 Tips for Quarantined StudentsNone of us wanted or predicted this -- but here we are -- safe at home with so much time on our hands. Here are seven great ways to pass...
Beth & Tim MannersMar 54 minU of Maryland Tour: By The NumbersUniversity of Maryland gets right to the point, quantifying itself with data. Twelve colleges, 90 undergraduate majors and 4,447 total fa...
Beth & Tim MannersFeb 205 minWesleyan Tour: Order out of ChaosArriving a half-hour early for our Tuesday noontime Wesleyan University tour, we were greeted by one, and then another, chockablock-full ...
Beth & Tim MannersJan 214 minPurchase Tour: An Arts-Industrial ComplexWhen Purchase College first opened its doors in 1967, Nelson Rockefeller called it “the cultural gem” of the State University of New York...
Beth & Tim MannersJan 146 minYale Tour: Cathedral of KnowledgeYale University seems like a pretty good school. Okay, sure. It is in fact, every bit as awe-inspiring as a college has a right to be on ...
Beth & Tim MannersOct 29, 20191 minCampusReel Offers Online Campus ToursTech Crunch: "CampusReel quietly went live last year with a plan to deliver a real campus tour experience to applicants right from their ...
Beth & Tim MannersJun 25, 20195 minTrinity Tour: Big City, Small Campus, Bright FutureAlmost always the tour follows the information session, but at Trinity College it was the other way around, at least for us. Touring firs...
Beth & Tim MannersJun 11, 20194 minUConn Tour: Beyond HuskymaniaWhen is an urban campus not an urban campus? One answer might be: when it’s the University of Connecticut. Set in New England’s countrysi...
Beth & Tim MannersJun 3, 20195 minGeorgetown Tour: What Rocks? Hoya Saxa!We gamely followed Matt, our witty and vivacious Georgetown University tour guide, as he ascended what appeared to be a fire escape. Wher...
Beth & Tim MannersMay 30, 20193 minHofstra Tour: Monkey Puzzles & Other SurprisesOne would get the wrong idea if the aging, high-rise residential halls visible from a bordering turnpike were one’s first impression of H...
Beth & Tim MannersMay 23, 20191 min21 Fun Facts About 12 CollegesAt the 2019 IECA Spring conference, a collection of colleges was invited to explain themselves, lightning-round style, in five minutes or...
Beth & Tim MannersMay 17, 20193 minDePaul Tour: A Distinctly Vincentian EducationNever afraid of getting too much of a good thing, we squeezed in one last college tour during our Chicago whirlwind. With just hours to s...
Beth & Tim MannersMay 16, 20194 minU Chicago Tour: Yes, We Had FunLooking for the admissions office, walking through a grand archway, not knowing exactly what was to come, we were stunned by the jaw-drop...
Beth & Tim MannersMay 15, 20194 minWisconsin Tour: Small City, Big CampusLocated in a capital city and with a total student population of about 44,000, it would seem a given that the University of Wisconsin at ...
Beth & Tim MannersMay 14, 20194 minBeloit Tour: Keep an Eye on this TurtleIf it weren’t directly on the path between Chicago and Madison, we might have missed Beloit College, and that would have been a shame. Tr...
Beth & Tim MannersMay 13, 20193 minNorthwestern Tour: Warm and WindyGiven its rigorous academics and selective admissions, one would not expect life at Northwestern University to be a day at the beach. Yet...
Beth & Tim MannersApr 30, 20194 minJMU Tour: Sweet Smell of SuccessFeels big! That was our first impression as our shuttle bus pulled up to the Festival Student Center in the Skyline area of the James Mad...
Beth & Tim MannersApr 29, 20194 minUVA Tour: It Takes an Academical VillageHis name was invoked no less than four times during the first five minutes of our UVA tour. Thomas Jefferson is known for many things, an...
