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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...
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I'm
Going to College---Not You!
Surviving the College Search with Your Child
Edited by Jennifer Delahunty
Published by MacMillian, September 2010
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A Cautionary Tale
by Christine VanDeVelde
I will share with you the mantra that helped me through the college
admission years: "The Unabomber went to Harvard." Remember this. It will
work better than "Om." And notice I said "years" because in
hypercompetitive Silicon Valley, where I live, the quest for the punched
ticket to an undergraduate degree starts early.
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...
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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.
The turkey drop is just one of the precipitating factors. Homesickness,
roommate conflicts, academic pressures, difficulty forming new
friendships – any of them can cause college freshmen to leap to the
conclusion that they've chosen the wrong school and that transferring to
another is the answer.
In most cases, though, students shouldn't let a moment of self-doubt
make them start the college application process all over again.
It can happen no matter how mature or accomplished a student is...
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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...
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