Universitas College Counseling

13/03/2026

We were once again interviewed on the US based college admission podcast DON'T CHUCK IT UP. This time, the topic was financial aid for international students. Give it a listen and tell us what you think and if you learned something from it.

In this episode of Don't Chuck It Up, college counselor Chuck sits down with Manila-based independent educational consultant John Sy. to demystify the comple...

03/10/2025

We were recently interviewed on a US college admission podcast. If you have any questions on any of the issues raised, call us!

This essential episode of the Don't Chuck It Up podcast features host Chuck tackling the complexities of International Student Admissions to U.S. universitie...

27/08/2025

Join us for this FREE online webinar. Get answers to your burning questions about going to the US for college straight from US college admission officers and one of our clients who is studying there on a full ride.

20/08/2025

We visited this campus...the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee...back in 2016. We can personally attest to the stunning beauty of the campus, its warm and wonderful community, and its unrivaled academics that would put any Ivy League school to shame.

30/09/2023

From our friends at CollegeWise...

17/08/2023

Interested in studying college in the US? Join us this 25th of August 2023 as our team of experts discuss the basics of US college admissions.

Early bird fee of 200.00 (before August 21). Regular fee of 300. To register, just send us a message here at Universitas College Counseling. See you!

US/Canada College Admission Counseling for Philippine students. FREE initial consultation.

28/06/2023

16/06/2023

An Ivy League education isn't necessary to rise to the top of the Fortune 500 in the US.

“The results were stunning,” he told Fortune. “Like everyone else, I thought Ivy Leagues would dominate. But the largest place they had gone to was no college at all.”

Of the 500 CEOs on the list, seven or eight had no undergraduate degree, more than the combined degrees from any other college in the pool, according to Kang, who is now a professor of international relations and business at the University of Southern California. He presented the results to his Dartmouth graduate students, who tried to explain away the Ivy League’s lack of dominance, he said. But the numbers told all: A fancy degree isn’t required for business success, and top-tier corporate executives usually don’t have elite educations.

“Like everyone else,” David Kang assumed the Ivy Leagues would dominate, “but the largest place they had gone was to no college at all.”

27/02/2023

Proud to say that we have visited over 90 university campuses in the US and Canada (and two in Hong Kong) in our effort to bring professional college admission advice.

And we plan to visit even more campuses this year!

2015:

University of Oregon
Oregon State University
University of Portland
Linfield College
Portland State University
Lewis and Clark College
Reed College
Whitman College
Whitworth University
Washington State University
University of Washington
University of Puget Sound
Seattle University
Cornish College of the Arts
University of Idaho
Gonzaga University

2016:

St. John’s College (MD)
Johns Hopkins University
Washington College
Loyola University (MD)
Mt. St. Mary’s University
Stevenson University
McDaniel College
Notre Dame of Maryland University
Hood College
Goucher College
Maryland Institute College of Art

2017:

Hong Kong Polytechnic University
UCLA
California State University, Long Beach
Occidental College
University of Southern California
Chapman University
Earlham College
College of Wooster
Vanderbilt University
Sewanee: The University of the South
University of Akron
Case Western Reserve University

2018:

Gettysburg College
Quest University of Canada

2019:

Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD Hong Kong and Atlanta campuses)
Oglethorpe University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Agnes Scott College
Emory University
Johnson and Wales University
Rhode Island School of Design
Salve Regina University
Clark University
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
College of the Holy Cross
Wellesley College
Boston College
Creighton University
Nebraska Wesleyan University
Benedictine College
Johnson County Community College
Kansas State University
University of Missouri Kansas City
Western University (formerly University of Western Ontario)
Rochester Institute of Technology
University of Rochester / Eastman School of Music
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Syracuse University
Colgate University
Hamilton College
Union College
Skidmore College
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

2022

Wesleyan University
Quinnipiac University
Vassar College
Marist College
Lake Forest College

Other Universities Visited

University of British Columbia
Simon Fraser University
University of Waterloo
University of Toronto
New York University
Princeton University
Columbia University
University of Arizona
Arizona State University
Rutgers University
UC Berkeley
UC Irvine
Stanford University
Santa Clara University
Fordham University
Harvey Mudd College
California Institute of Technology