Students don’t have to go to a highly selective college to get a great education and a good job after graduation. With more than 4,000 colleges and universities in the US, there are plenty of options from which college-bound students can choose. However, many tend to rely on name-recognition as a gauge of a “good” college, rather than using the tools at their disposal to find other schools that may better fit a student’s needs. This is why the country’s top-tier schools receive upwards of 40,000 (even 50,000!) applications each year, resulting in single-digit admission rates.
