How Do You Pick the Right College?

Choosing a college is one of the biggest decisions you'll make as a teenager, and most of the information you have to go on is curated by the schools themselves. Rankings tell you about prestige. Brochures show you the prettiest buildings. But none of that tells you what it actually feels like to be a student there.

The people who can tell you that are the ones who are living it right now. Students who chose that school, moved in, sat through the classes, joined the clubs, and figured out whether the culture actually matched the pitch. Their experience is the most honest data point you can get.

That's why Scholarly lets you message real students directly. Our Scholars are students at top universities who have been through the admissions process and are ready to answer your questions. Ask them what surprised them about their school, what the social scene is actually like, what they wish they had known before applying, or whether they'd choose the same school again.

And when you want to go deeper, you can read their full application case studies to see the essays, stats, and strategy that got them in. Between the conversations and the case studies, you get a complete picture of what each school values and what it's actually like to go there.