WashU: Gateway to the Best of Higher Education
We could have been on any airport highway: Minneapolis, Denver, even Ft. Lauderdale minus the palm trees. It was all asphalt and road...
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Beth & Tim Manners
- Aug 31, 2021
- 6 min
Colorado College: Odyssey of Individuality
Somehow, 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 Manners
- Aug 17, 2021
- 4 min
CU Boulder: Big is the New Small
Like 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 Manners
- Aug 9, 2021
- 4 min
University of Denver: Stereophonic Academics
Nestled among the Rocky Mountains just outside its namesake metropolis, University of Denver certainly is a sight to behold when it is 93...
Beth & Tim Manners
- Oct 23, 2020
- 1 min
Campus Takeovers: Unscripted Virtual Tours
University Business: "High schools students who want to see colleges and universities up close must largely view them through a set of...
Beth & Tim Manners
- May 4, 2020
- 2 min
Screening College Options from Home
The 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 Manners
- Apr 28, 2020
- 2 min
Pixel Dust: College Tours Go Virtual
The New York Times: "Virtual coffees with college students for high school juniors. Zoom sessions between applicants and admissions...
Beth & Tim Manners
- Mar 17, 2020
- 1 min
7 Tips for Quarantined Students
None 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 Manners
- Mar 5, 2020
- 4 min
U of Maryland Tour: By The Numbers
University of Maryland gets right to the point, quantifying itself with data. Twelve colleges, 90 undergraduate majors and 4,447 total...
Beth & Tim Manners
- Feb 20, 2020
- 5 min
Wesleyan Tour: Order out of Chaos
Arriving a half-hour early for our Tuesday noontime Wesleyan University tour, we were greeted by one, and then another, chockablock-full...
Beth & Tim Manners
- Jan 21, 2020
- 4 min
Purchase Tour: An Arts-Industrial Complex
When Purchase College first opened its doors in 1967, Nelson Rockefeller called it “the cultural gem” of the State University of New York...
Beth & Tim Manners
- Jan 14, 2020
- 6 min
Yale Tour: Cathedral of Knowledge
Yale 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 Manners
- Oct 29, 2019
- 1 min
CampusReel Offers Online Campus Tours
Tech Crunch: "CampusReel quietly went live last year with a plan to deliver a real campus tour experience to applicants right from their...
Beth & Tim Manners
- Jun 25, 2019
- 5 min
Trinity Tour: Big City, Small Campus, Bright Future
Almost always the tour follows the information session, but at Trinity College it was the other way around, at least for us. Touring...
Beth & Tim Manners
- Jun 11, 2019
- 4 min
UConn Tour: Beyond Huskymania
When 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 Manners
- Jun 3, 2019
- 5 min
Georgetown 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 Manners
- May 30, 2019
- 3 min
Hofstra Tour: Monkey Puzzles & Other Surprises
One 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 Manners
- May 23, 2019
- 1 min
21 Fun Facts About 12 Colleges
At the 2019 IECA Spring conference, a collection of colleges was invited to explain themselves, lightning-round style, in five minutes or...
Beth & Tim Manners
- May 17, 2019
- 3 min
DePaul Tour: A Distinctly Vincentian Education
Never 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 Manners
- May 16, 2019
- 4 min
U Chicago: Where Fun Goes to Thrive
Looking for the admissions office, walking through a grand archway, not knowing exactly what was to come, we were stunned by the...