Beth & Tim MannersAug 31, 20216 minColorado College: Odyssey of IndividualitySomehow, high-flying Colorado College manages to stay below the radar of a good chunk of exceptional students who just might find it to...
Beth & Tim MannersAug 17, 20214 minCU Boulder: Big is the New SmallLike a dream-school mirage, gazpacho-red rooftops poked through the tree-line as we hurtled down the final stretch of the not-so-lonesome...
Beth & Tim MannersAug 9, 20214 minUniversity of Denver: Stereophonic AcademicsNestled among the Rocky Mountains just outside its namesake metropolis, University of Denver certainly is a sight to behold when it is 93...
Beth & Tim MannersOct 23, 20201 minCampus Takeovers: Unscripted Virtual ToursUniversity Business: "High schools students who want to see colleges and universities up close must largely view them through a set of...
Beth & Tim MannersMay 4, 20202 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...
Beth & Tim MannersApr 28, 20202 minPixel Dust: College Tours Go VirtualThe New York Times: "Virtual coffees with college students for high school juniors. Zoom sessions between applicants and admissions...
Beth & Tim MannersMar 17, 20201 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 5, 20204 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...
Beth & Tim MannersFeb 20, 20205 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 21, 20204 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 14, 20206 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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...