GAME CHANGER COMING SOON - VOL. 17

January 23, 2026

EDITOR’S NOTE:

Happy May! We hope everyone is enjoying the warmer weather and if you live in the Northeast - finally a little sunshine today!

We are super excited to share some HUGE NEWS that we have been working on for the past few months!! Get ready for a game-changing tool that is going to make organizing your about-to-be-college-student’s move to school and all of freshman year exponentially easier!!

In the meantime, make sure to follow us on INSTAGRAM for more hints and updates as we should be rolling out the new tool in just a couple of weeks - in time for graduation season!

And for all of the high school students - we are ramping up our College Corner Connect matching program which helps match students with higher ed experts to help navigate the admissions process. You can start the FREE process here:
👉 https://www.thecollegecorner.com/connect

Busy busy busy!!!

NEW COLLEGE GRADS ARE ENTERING A WORKFORCE SHAPED BY CHAOS. HERE IS HOW THEY’RE PREPARING

Right now, students across the country are finishing final exams, packing up apartments, and picking up their caps and gowns. Soon, they’ll walk across the commencement stage, their last act as college students before they face the next great unknown: finding their place in the working world. Graduation always brings a little flailing and doubt, but this year the uncertainty feels sharper.

COLLEGE IS MORE AFFORDABLE THAN MANY PARENTS THINK

(NYTimes Op-Ed)

This spring brought the annual wave of prospective students to colleges nationwide, with young people and their parents eager to learn about majors and campus life. Unfortunately, the most important issue of all — the cost of college — was too often omitted from those conversations.

THE HARDEST COLLEGES TO GET INTO IN THE U.S.

Based on Niche’s 2025 rankings, we’ve rounded up the 30 most selective colleges in the country.

SEE THE LIST HERE:
👉 https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/hardest-to-get-in/

VENDOR SPOTLIGHT — DR. BETH BOCHNER

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and we wanted to share this blog post from Dr. Beth Bochner, an Adolescent Psychotherapist with a passion for working with teens, college-age kids, and their parents.

THE EMOTIONAL WHIRLWIND AFTER COLLEGE DECISION DAY HAS COME AND GONE

The deposit is in, the sweatshirt has arrived, and your high school senior officially knows where they're headed this fall. But instead of the calm after the storm, many parents and teens find themselves caught in a new kind of whirlwind.