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website Visit on Facebook | Follow on Twitter  College Admission: From Application to Acceptance, Step by Step By Robin Mamlet and Christine VanDeVelde Coming in August, 2011, from Three Rivers Press With Robin Mamlet, former admission dean at Stanford, Swarthmore and Sarah Lawrence, a comprehensive guide to the college application process with advice and insights from more than 50 admission deans. College Admission directly addresses all the questions that plague students and parents along the way to an acceptance letter and will be a definitive resource throughout the high school years.  Should Colleges Be Factories for the 1%? By Robin Mamlet and Christine VanDeVelde In his recently unveiled Blueprint for College Affordability, President Obama calls for "collecting earnings and employment information for colleges and universities, so that students can have an even better sense of the life they'll be able to build once they graduate." In other words, the government wants to publish statistics on what graduates earn after leaving Harvard or Ohio State or Duke. The results are unlikely to surprise. For all the costs of collecting and collating this information—for the sake of reducing the costs of education, no less—it will show... MORE>>  I'm
Going to College---Not You!
Surviving the College Search with Your Child
Edited by Jennifer Delahunty Buy the book | Publisher's website A Cautionary Tale Around here, if you an eleven-year-old applying to middle school, the accepted wisdom is that it is harder to get a seat in the incoming sixth grade of a private school than an acceptance letter from Yale. Despite the fact that I am a journalist -- inquiring mind and all -- I swallowed this whole. As a well-known psychiatrist once told me, "All parents are amateurs." Guilty as charged. And so it was that when my daughter applied... MORE>>  A
feast of doubts for college freshmen come ThanksgivingIt's
called the "turkey drop" – when first-year college students break up
with their high school sweethearts over the Thanksgiving holiday. But
there's a risk that freshmen might break up with their college, too. This year, 'senioritis' may have dire consequences
Senioritis"
— skipping
class,
missing
tests,
attending
parties
instead of
athletic
practice,
and
generally
slacking off
at the end
of the last
year of high
school — is
practically
a rite of
spring. But
this year
there may be
serious
consequences
— including
having
college
acceptance
withdrawn —
for those
who don't
finish with
a strong
academic
record.
In the past, when students received the fat envelope, the suspense of the college application process was largely over. That's not necessarily so this year. Because in the 2009 college admission season — with the largest high school graduating classes in history, record numbers of applications and dwindling economic resources — colleges simply don't know how many students are going to be able to accept their offers. To cope with that uncertainty, many colleges are admitting more students than in the past. If they find they have over-enrolled their incoming class, they may be more likely to revoke an offer of admission to those who haven't maintained top grades or fallen short in some other way... MORE>> |
