Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard University
Explore a broad undergraduate education and how your academic interests, experiences, and personal voice come together.
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Explore 39 free guides to learning, school life, and preparing an application. Choose the stage that fits you.
Undergraduate19 school guides
Choose a university for the education it offers.
Compare U.S. universities with course-focused study at Oxford, Cambridge, and Imperial, and degrees in Ireland, Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.
Stanford, California
Stanford University
Explore academic flexibility and how your curiosity and interests come through in your application.
New York, New York
Columbia University
Compare Columbia College and Engineering, the Core Curriculum, and learning in New York.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
Explore Penn’s four undergraduate schools and how to choose the right academic home for your interests.
New Haven, Connecticut
Yale University
Explore Yale’s residential colleges and time to choose a major, and how your curiosity and care for others come through.
Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton University
Explore Princeton’s two degrees, the senior thesis, and how your curiosity and voice come through in your application.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Explore MIT’s shared science core and research opportunities, and how your hands-on work and character come through in your application.
Chicago, Illinois
University of Chicago
Explore the Core, UChicago’s unusual essay questions, and how its new free-tuition policy could change what your family pays.
Baltimore, Maryland
Johns Hopkins University
Explore two undergraduate schools, research from your first year, and how to show Hopkins the way you engage across differences.
Los Angeles, California
University of California, Los Angeles
Explore UCLA’s majors and quarter system, then prepare the UC application, four short answers, and a plan for the cost.
Oxford, England
University of Oxford
Start with your course, then explore subject preparation, tutorial teaching, and the application.
Cambridge, England
University of Cambridge
Explore your course, small-group teaching, and how to prepare for academic discussions and unfamiliar problems.
London, England
Imperial College London
Start with the course you want, then prepare for its admissions test and plan for tuition, living costs, and funding.
Dublin, Ireland
Trinity College Dublin
Explore course-based degrees in Dublin, the right application route for you, and the Dual BA with Columbia.
Milan, Italy
Bocconi University
Explore English-taught degrees in economics, management, and more, and how Bocconi’s test and grades decide your place.
Madrid and Segovia, Spain
IE University
Explore English-taught degrees in Madrid and Segovia, admissions in rounds, and how to plan for the cost.
Paris and regional campuses, France
Sciences Po
Explore a social sciences degree across France’s regional campuses, dual degrees with Columbia and Berkeley, and the interview.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
University of Amsterdam
Explore English-taught bachelor’s degrees in Amsterdam and how the Dutch system, deadlines, and fees work.
Zurich, Switzerland
ETH Zurich
Explore science and engineering degrees taught in German, and the certificate or exam route that fits you.
Master’s & postgraduate5 school guides
Match your next degree to what you want to study.
Start with your subject, previous study, and reasons for continuing. These guides help you explore taught and research routes.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard Griffin GSAS
Explore graduate study in the arts and sciences, with attention to your chosen program, preparation, and funding.
Stanford, California
Stanford Graduate Admissions
Connect your previous work with the Stanford program you want to pursue and the preparation it calls for.
New York, New York
Columbia GSAS
Explore graduate arts and sciences programs through their curriculum, academic community, and application requirements.
Oxford, England
University of Oxford
Compare graduate courses, the work you would need to prepare, and the questions to ask about funding.
Cambridge, England
University of Cambridge
Explore courses, funding, and colleges alongside the academic preparation your intended program needs.
MBA5 school guides
Choose an MBA that supports your next career move.
Compare the learning experience, career direction, and professional examples you would bring to each school.
Boston, Massachusetts
Harvard Business School
Explore case-based learning and how your decisions, responsibilities, and growth can show your leadership.
Stanford, California
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Think through the connection between your values, leadership experiences, and the direction you want to take.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Wharton School
Connect your career goals with analytical preparation, teamwork, and what you would contribute to the MBA community.
New York, New York
Columbia Business School
Explore how the program’s format, timing, and New York setting could support your next career move.
France and Singapore
INSEAD
Consider your international experience, career plans, and readiness for the pace of an accelerated MBA.
Private high schools10 school guides
A good school should fit everyday life, too.
Look at classroom discussion, independence, and the support that helps a young person settle in and grow.
Exeter, New Hampshire
Phillips Exeter Academy
Explore discussion-led learning, growing independence, and whether everyday life at Exeter would suit your family.
Andover, Massachusetts
Phillips Academy Andover
Consider the opportunities, independence, and support involved in joining a large, academically demanding school community.
Wallingford, Connecticut
Choate Rosemary Hall
Explore how your interests, learning habits, and support needs fit the school’s academic and community life.
Deerfield, Massachusetts
Deerfield Academy
Consider shared routines, close community, and growing independence when exploring everyday life at Deerfield.
Lawrenceville, New Jersey
The Lawrenceville School
Explore classroom discussion and the House communities that connect learning with everyday school life.
Lakeville, Connecticut
The Hotchkiss School
Explore Hotchkiss’s classes and dorms, and prepare an application with essays that are entirely your own.
Groton, Massachusetts
Groton School
Consider a small, close community that admits students as early as eighth grade, and how its aid fits your family.
Concord, New Hampshire
St. Paul’s School
Picture an all-boarding school, and prepare an application you write entirely on your own.
Milton, Massachusetts
Milton Academy
Decide on boarding or day first, since it sets which grades you can join, then plan each part of your application.
Windsor, Connecticut
The Loomis Chaffee School
Explore a boarding and day school near Hartford, and plan each step, including the form every applicant files about testing.
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