If the internet is to be believed, you have so much extra time available to you these days. So why are parents so stressed?

Why is social distancing is a great opportunity to remake your routine around health and family well-being.

Now is the BEST time for your high school junior to prepare for college.  Why?  No school means they have time to focus on their ACT.

While higher education grapples with COVID-19, here's some guidance on how the pandemic might impact students who are applying to college.

Picking classes is essentially what college prep decision-making looks like during 8th-10th grades. Here’s a healthy way to approach it.

Everyone wants to be in the "room where it happens," right?  Dr. Thom sheds some light on how selective admissions committees work.

Creating that first list of colleges that you'll be considering can be overwhelming. Here's how to break it down and get moving.

How can we help young people sift through the endless array of college choices and majors? By helping them see the power of less.

Knowing what options are affordable to the family empowers students to make confident college decisions.

Put all the admissions marketing aside and focus on teaching your child the messy art of adult decision making through the college search.

The advice to prospective students sounds like this: "visit colleges, when you find the right one, you will know." We can do better.

Almost half of high school juniors indicate that picking a college major is a significant source of stress and anxiety.  We can do better.

Is a college search coming up for your family in 2020? Together let's make some new year's resolutions for a healthy college search.

Junior PSAT results have been fanning out across the country, and with it, comes questions of National Merit status. Here's what you need.

Finals week can be crazy stressful. Plan your own de-stress fest to kick off the holiday break.

Do you know where the term deadline came from? The best we can tell, it comes from an infamous Civil War era Confederate prison in Andersonville, Georgia wh...

Starting in September 2020, students will have the option of retaking one or more section(s) of the ACT. As you may know, the ACT is comprised of four* sect...

Dr. Thom collaborated with Challenge Success and recently wrote an article about fears students experience when applying to college and how to address them. ...

The X factor in all of the best college application essays is at once incredibly simple, and increasingly rare.

We’re excited to present to parents and families on Thursday night with Autism Tennessee. The event has been promoted on social media. I received a message (...