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    Wisconsin Tour: Small City, Big Campus
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • May 15, 2019
    • 4 min

    Wisconsin Tour: Small City, Big Campus

    Located 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...
    Beloit Tour: Keep an Eye on this Turtle
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • May 14, 2019
    • 4 min

    Beloit Tour: Keep an Eye on this Turtle

    If it weren’t directly on the path between Chicago and Madison, we might have missed Beloit College, and that would have been a shame....
    Northwestern Tour: Warm and Windy
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • May 13, 2019
    • 3 min

    Northwestern Tour: Warm and Windy

    Given its rigorous academics and selective admissions, one would not expect life at Northwestern University to be a day at the beach. Yet...
    JMU Tour: Sweet Smell of Success
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Apr 30, 2019
    • 4 min

    JMU Tour: Sweet Smell of Success

    Feels big! That was our first impression as our shuttle bus pulled up to the Festival Student Center in the Skyline area of the James...
    UVA Tour: It Takes an Academical Village
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Apr 29, 2019
    • 4 min

    UVA Tour: It Takes an Academical Village

    His name was invoked no less than four times during the first five minutes of our UVA tour. Thomas Jefferson is known for many things,...
    Richmond Tour: Leaders in Leadership
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Apr 26, 2019
    • 3 min

    Richmond Tour: Leaders in Leadership

    It would be easy to dismiss the University of Richmond as just another pretty campus in Virginia. It really is beautiful. Every one of...
    College Tour: William & Mary Surprises
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Apr 25, 2019
    • 4 min

    College Tour: William & Mary Surprises

    The most surprising thing about the College of William & Mary isn’t that it was built with pirate money (true story, look it up). Nor is...
    Drexel Tour: It’s What’s Inside That Counts
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Apr 15, 2019
    • 3 min

    Drexel Tour: It’s What’s Inside That Counts

    Crossing Market Street in Philadelphia is like leaving one universe and entering another: from the ivory toweriness of the University of...
    Penn Tour: Be What You Seem, Really
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Apr 11, 2019
    • 3 min

    Penn Tour: Be What You Seem, Really

    Yes, it exhibits everything one would expect at an “ivy league” school: a grand, bustling green campus, suitably majestic and imposing...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Mar 29, 2019
    • 2 min

    How Campus Visits Alter Student Goals

    Chalkbeat: “When researchers asked hundreds of eighth-graders living near Arkansas’s flagship university whether they’d ever visited a...
    U of Delaware: Five Things You Might Not Know
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Mar 5, 2019
    • 2 min

    U of Delaware: Five Things You Might Not Know

    The University of Delaware campus somehow manages to be inviting even in the dead of winter, when most of its palpable energy moves...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Feb 21, 2019
    • 2 min

    College Tours: Providence & Bryant

    Our students sometimes comment that their college campus tours are a blur, that one seems pretty much like the next. This is...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Jan 23, 2019
    • 1 min

    Student YouTube: A Lens Into Campus Life

    Chronicle of Higher Education: “Search any college’s name and you’re likely to see a student-produced dorm-room tour or move-in day video...
    The Tower & Girl of UT Austin
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Dec 11, 2018
    • 1 min

    The Tower & Girl of UT Austin

    “The Main Building and its tower were originally designed to serve as the campus central library … librarians were stationed on every...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Sep 20, 2018
    • 1 min

    College Tour Tips

    US News: “The fall months – September through early December – can be extremely busy for high school juniors and seniors … In light of...
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Sep 24, 2017
    • 1 min

    Harvey Mudd: STEM ‘Boot Camp’

    Business Insider: “Located in Claremont, California is an 829-person liberal arts college that might go unnoticed to the uninitiated....
    Beth & Tim Manners
    • Nov 22, 2016
    • 1 min

    ‘Hotel at Oberlin’ Reflects College’s Values

    The New York Times: “Oberlin, like many other colleges and universities around the country, has decided that campus guest quarters,...
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