Turns out you have been doing them wrong. T&C meets with the travel consigliere who organizes college tours for the one percent. Here’s a universal truth. No one enjoys doing college tours. Not the ...

So you’ve decided to go on a campus tour. I approve: It’s one of the best college-hunting tools available to your student. First, of course, you might want to check out U.S. News' Best Colleges and ...

This post was updated March 13 at 11:09 p.m. Shepherded by undergraduates wearing blue polo shirts, high school seniors on Bruin Walk picture themselves walking to lectures in the fall. These students ...

A lot has changed since I toured colleges as a high school senior in 1980. Today’s seniors are solicited on social. I’m not sure I saw a piece of targeted direct mail trying to get my top 20 percent, ...

The price of gas is rising. Air travel is a mess. But this fall, many college-bound high school seniors and their parents will spend days—sometimes happily, sometimes not—exploring far flung campuses.