At 11:14 a.m. on Dec. 14, the day of her ballet performance in the Lawrence Art Center’s production of “The Nutcracker,” senior Devany West clicked on a website that welcomed her to Massachusetts...

Senior Cecilia Quintana has been thinking about college since she was 13. Her mind always swirled with thoughts of where she would live and what she would study. Last semester, Quintana made the important...