Best Colleges for Students Who Haven't Picked a Major Yet
Fourth and Loud: Ranking the Best Gameday Atmospheres in College Sports
Every school with a stadium claims its gameday is the best in the country. Most of them are exaggerating. A handful aren't — and the difference matters more than most families rea…
Beyond the Letters: The Best Colleges for Students Who Skip Greek Life
A lot of official tours are built around the assumption that Greek life is the default social infrastructure, which leaves students who already know they'll skip it with real, una…
By the Numbers: The Biggest Greek Life Scenes in College
"Big Greek life school" gets thrown around loosely in college search conversations, but the actual scale varies a lot — from campuses where a fifth of students go through recruitm…
Old Row: The Most Historic Greek Row Campuses in America
Some Greek Rows are just streets with houses on them. Others are architectural landmarks with a century or more of continuous tradition, where the buildings themselves — not just…
Rush Before Roommates: How Greek Life Shapes Freshman Housing Decisions
Most families think about Greek life and housing as two separate decisions — where to live freshman year, and whether to rush later. At many schools, they're actually the same dec…
Atlanta & Athens: A SchoolScoops Guide to Visiting Georgia Tech, Emory, and UGA in One Trip
Georgia Tech, Emory, and the University of Georgia are three of the most-applied-to schools in the state, and families flying into Atlanta often want to see all three without book…
The Triangle & the Piedmont: A SchoolScoops Guide to Visiting Duke, UNC, and Wake Forest in One Trip
Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Wake Forest are three of the most-applied-to schools in North Carolina, and families flying in from out of state often want to see all three in a single…
Gator Weekend: The SchoolScoops Guide to Visiting the University of Florida
One of the biggest logistical questions families ask about the University of Florida is simply how to get to Gainesville and what to do once you're there — it isn't a major metro…
Gaucho Weekend: The SchoolScoops Guide to Visiting UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Barbara has a case most schools can't make: a research university with its own beach, bordered on three sides by the Pacific. That setting is a huge part of the pitch, bu…
Cal Weekend: The SchoolScoops Guide to Visiting UC Berkeley
If UC Berkeley is on your list, it deserves more than a rushed weekday drive-by. Berkeley is dense, hilly, and layered — the kind of campus that only starts to make sense once you…
La Jolla and the Coast: A Family Travel Guide to Visiting UCSD
UC San Diego sits on a bluff above La Jolla, one of the most scenic settings of any campus in the country, which makes a visit here as much a coastal trip as a college trip. Ancho…
Morningside Heights and Manhattan: A Family Travel Guide to Visiting Columbia
Columbia University sits in Morningside Heights on Manhattan's Upper West Side — an actual walled, gated quad in the middle of New York City, which gives visiting families the rar…