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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Finding the right fit. For high school students in the process of researching a variety of colleges and universities, admissions ...

The author (right) receiving a quick lesson in welding at Texas State Technical College. With summer just around the corner, many families with rising high school seniors have college tours planned.

In a scene that feels ripped from a Succession episode, picture this: a family with a high schooler in the midst of their college search pulls up to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, slides out of a ...

For high-school seniors, their first steps on a college campus offer them a chance to look into their potential futures. Between course offerings, athletic history, personal anecdotes from the tour ...

Spring break is right around the corner, and for many high-school students and their parents, that means many will be hitting the road to tour colleges around the country. To make the most of your ...

I can track my entire college application process in my Internet history. It seems as though I spent my senior year of high school clicking through the Common App, browsing degree programs, writing ...

I was lucky enough to recently visit Pomona College and Claremont McKenna College. Pomona and CMC are known as Small Liberal Arts Colleges, also called SLACs. SLACs only focus on the first four years ...

When I took on this task years ago, it was challenging to figure out the itinerary for a 12-day trip that included nine private liberal arts colleges in Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. I ...