I stumbled across a piece at Campus Grotto recently that asked the question: Why Go to College? They generally have some good material on their site, but their answer left a taste in my mouth. Their...
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Allen Grove over at About Dot Com has some good tips for visiting a college campus. And that's important. Because few things tell you whether you want to live on a college campus the way that...
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So you applied to 14 colleges, and soon you'll get letter from half or more of them tell you they've accepted you. How do you pick? Counselor's Corner has some tips online to help you pick...
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If you guessed Harvard, you were right. The Princeton Review ranked Harvard as the toughest school to get into in its 2008 edition. Seven of the eight toughest schools to get into where in the Ivy...
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You're preparing to apply for college. Do you take the SAT or the ACT? Amanda Sopko recently published a piece that looks at the differences between the two tests. And there are some profound...
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Many colleges want you to get letters of recommendation as part of your application for college from people who know you. The first thing to consider it waiving your right to see those letters. If you...
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USA Today ran an editorial this week on college admissions. Their starting point is simple but scary: the biggest high school graduating class ever (the class of 2007) is applying for college at a...
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Getting into college is partly about selling yourself - convincing someone else that YOU are the person they're looking for. While most college applications don't actually ask for one, it is...
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It's a loaded question for a couple of reasons. We're talking here about accredited colleges. We're talking about four-year colleges. That leaves out many trade schools that use the word...
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Over the next couple of months we're going to visit and revisit the issue of getting into college. And step one is simple: if you haven't applied yet, you're running late and the time is...
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The University of California is being sued by the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI). That's not really news, since the lawsuit was filed over two years ago now. But...
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The cost of the GRE has gone up. I have no idea what I paid for it when I took it in 1994. I only remember coming out of the test session and feeling like maybe I should assume a......
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(Source: Hamilton College) That's the question behind yet another book promising an inside look at college admissions. This one's called Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education...
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(Source: Georgetown University) No, it's not 12 months spent shopping for jeans. It's a year between high school and college, a tack more students are taking, according to a Washington Post...
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(Source: Lehigh University) Call it the trickle-down theory. Because the Ivies and other top schools (e.g., Duke, Stanford, Amherst, Williams) have become almost impossible to crack, throngs of...
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(Source: Clark Atlanta University) Historically black colleges and universities are reaching out to another population: Latinos. According to NPR's "All Things Considered," some schools...
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(Source: Columbia University) Getting into the nation's best colleges has become even more difficult, if you can imagine that. Everyone is so brand conscious these days, and spots at the top...
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(Source: University of Florida) Congratulations to Florida for winning back-to-back national titles in college basketball. Sandwiched between those victories was the Gators' BCS championship in...
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(Source: Princeton University) Children of alumni, known as legacies, often receive preferential treatment when applying to mom's or dad's alma mater. How they fare once they're in is the...
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(Source: UC Riverside) I don't think I know anyone who's been homeschooled. That is, I've never met anyone who's made it known. It's not that common, after all. But it's...
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(Source: Johns Hopkins University) High school students will sniff out any opportunity to uncover admissions-related tidbits on their target colleges. So when an admissions officer sets up shop in a...
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