Student Guides

Search whether your major counts as STEM and you will find confident answers that contradict each other. One page says nursing is STEM. The next says it definitely is not. Both sound authoritative, and neither explains why they disagree.

Every spring, the same headlines make the rounds. A handful of universities announce that they turned away 95 or 96 out of every 100 people who applied, and the numbers get passed around as a kind of shorthand for how hard college admission has become.

Somewhere on your transfer application checklist is a line that reads "official transcript required," which means it has to come from your school, on their timeline, through whatever system they happen to use.

Your financial aid offer shows up and it lists two loans: a Direct Subsidized Loan and a Direct Unsubsidized Loan. The amounts are different, the names sound almost identical, and nothing on the page explains why you were offered both or what separates them.

There's no single number for how much it costs to transfer colleges. The real answer depends on your target school, how many of your credits transfer, and how you handle the physical move itself.

After high school, one of the biggest decisions you will make is where to start your higher education journey. Community college or university? The question comes up constantly, and the honest answer is: it depends on you.