Our updated college applications timeline for the 2026–2027 cycle outlines the essential steps Texas high school students should take from junior fall through senior spring. For most students applying for Fall 2027 college entry, the process began in fall 2025, accelerates during spring and summer 2026, and culminates with [...]
Announcing General Academic's custom-built college admissions tracking app: what it does for students, parents, and counselors. In the run-up to college application deadlines, even families that started organized usually aren't anymore. The Common App is in one browser tab, and the high school's counseling portal in another. The personal statement [...]
The best way to prevent summer learning loss is to maintain regular practice. Follow these tips to stay in shape over summer vacation! Summer Learning Loss It's summertime, and the learnin' is easy! Though it is important to spend some time relaxing, students who fail to maintain regular academic [...]
Houston families are starting ISEE prep earlier than ever. For most of the past five years, students typically began tutoring in August of the year they applied to private school, with applications due in December and January. That standard has shifted. By May 1 of this year, more than 50 [...]
Decades of research have identified what actually predicts college success — and it's not just grades. General Academic's new framework puts numbers to what admissions offices already know: the whole student matters. Every fall, roughly 3.7 million American high school seniors begin what may be the most consequential bureaucratic process [...]
Despite industry's best efforts, AI cannot replace human interaction. Imagine a student who has spent months struggling with algebra, consistently feeling lost, frustrated, and discouraged by each new lesson. Now envision that same student after a series of dedicated, personalized tutoring sessions. Suddenly, challenging concepts click into place, [...]
Texas high school students have two main pathways to graduation: the Texas Foundation High School Program, and the Texas First Early High School Diploma Program. Since the 2014-2015 school year, the Foundation High School Program (FHSP) has been the default route for graduation for all Texas public high school students. [...]
The private school deposit is due in three weeks, and your zoned elementary just cycled through another principal. You're sitting at your kitchen table with cold coffee and a tuition spreadsheet, stuck somewhere deciding between the Katy Freeway traffic you'd face every morning and the $18,000 annual bill you're not [...]
The test-optional wave that swept through higher education during the pandemic hasn't receded—more than 2,000 colleges and universities still don't require SAT or ACT scores for admission. But the tide is turning in ways that matter for Houston families planning their college strategy. MIT brought back testing requirements in 2022. [...]
The Texas School Voucher Program, "Education Freedom Account (TEFA)" program officially launched on February 4, 2026, offering Houston families up to $10,474 for private school tuition and up to $30,000 for students with qualifying disabilities. However, with Houston’s average private school tuition nearing $28,000, a significant funding gap remains. This [...]