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This weekly email searches main media outlets finding stories that may be of interest to high school counselors, college admission officers and related organizations, with links to the original stories. It is published by de facto, inc., publishers of other e-newsletters.
College Admissions - Larger Picture
More getting a deal on college
Greater Milwaukee Today, USA - Apr 19, 2006
... Robert Shireman, executive director of the Project for Student Debt, said private colleges and public universities have been engaged in "discounting practices ...
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Admission to elite colleges getting tougher
Kalamazoo Gazette, MI - Apr 15, 2006
There'e Kalamazoo-area kid who was accepted at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but relegated to a waiting list at Tufts University.
The one accepted at Northwestern University but deferred at the University of Michigan.
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The new college try
Boston Globe, United States - Apr 17, 2006
WHAT MAKES community colleges successful? Four-year colleges point to healthy graduation rates, but community colleges are like cities, where anyone can seek his or her fortune. Students may have families, jobs, and bills in their own names....
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Gender Gap
As number of qualified female applicants rises, college admissions ...
Daily Cardinal, WI - Apr 13, 2006
As more women apply to be undergraduates at UW-Madison, mathematically, more must receive the "thin envelopes."
Recent increases in female applicants may have forced college admissions officers nation-wide to scrutinize female applicants a little more closely in fall 2005, according to a March 23 New York Times op-ed article by Jennifer Delahunty Britz.
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The college gender gap doesn't reflect real world
University at Buffalo The Spectrum, NY - Apr 19, 2006
There has been recent talk in the news that female college students are outnumbering male college students at alarming rates (a 60-40 girl-boy ratio) and that somehow this data implies that boys have become less brainy than girls. Some college admissions officers are proposing affirmative action for men to make up for the gender gap...
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A Leg Up for the Man
CU Columbia Spectator, NY - Apr 17, 2006
By Elizabeth Dwoskin. A March 23 New York Times op-ed by Jennifer Delahunty Britz, a Kenyon College admissions officer and mother, shocked me. ...
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College Admissions Process/Strategies
Last-minute college decision tips
Centre College News & Events, Kentucky - Apr 13, 2006
"April" in college admission-speak translates to "college decision time!"
After many months of contemplation and evaluation, everything now comes together: all the research and comparisons, visits, conversations with admissions counselors, guidance counselors, ...
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College quandary
Boston Globe, United States - Apr 19, 2006
There is nothing left but the choosing.
No more information sessions with anxious parents asking college administrators overwrought questions about campus security, dormitory sprinklers, and library hours while mortified high school seniors sink ever lower into their seats....
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College Admissions Deciding Tours
College tour 101: Be prepared
Newark Star Ledger, USA - Apr 19, 2006
Ask your question of the right person. "You set yourself up for disappointment when you look to the wrong sources for information ...
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Rejection
Rejection 101
Chicago Sun-Times, United States - Apr 19, 2006
They studied, kept up their grade point averages and aced their ACTs and SATs. They played team sports, used their summers for enrichment programs and their spring breaks for research projects. They took advanced placement courses, performed service projects and volunteer work. They ran student governments, joined the National Honor Society. And when they didn't into their first-choice college, they learned a life lesson. ...
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Guest blogger Liz Petow: College Admission: It's Over
Providence Journal (subscription), RI - Apr 17, 2006
When I received my first flat little white envelope, I was devastated. I wasn't upset, however, because the school had not been my first choice school. I hadn't wanted to go there. I was upset because the thin envelope meant I hadn't gotten in. And I really thought I would...
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Western News
Many grads not ready for college-level studies
Santa Fe New Mexican, NM - Apr 18, 2006
A lot of students in developmental courses at Santa Fe Community College say they did a lot of homework in core courses in high school, Meredith Machen says.
But despite the hard work and, many times, good grades, those students weren’t ready for college, said Machen, the colleg's assistant vice president for educational leadership...
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Colleges ask board for tuition increases
The Spokesman Review, WA - Apr 19, 2006
BOISE – Idaho's four public colleges and universities are asking the state Board of Education for sizable tuition increases next year – including more than ...
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High School Exit Exam under more scrutiny
Ridgecrest Daily Independent, CA - Apr 19, 2006
By Staff Reporter. In this state, the only way to earn a high school diploma involves completing all school requirements and also ...
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Forum & Blogs
A real forum for applicants
Daily Pennsylvanian, PA - Apr 17, 2006
It's easy for us to turn up our noses at the college process. After all, while I certainly remember agonizing over every detail of my applications, I almost have to laugh at the high-school students currently panicking. Don't they know it works out for the best...
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Student blogs jog interest in St. Norbert
Green Bay Press Gazette, WI - Apr 20, 2006
But St. Norbert College officials hope a new Web site featuring student blogs, will take the popularity of those sometimes-controversial personal profile sites and use it to bolster admissions.
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Career Schools
Career schools - a no-frills path to a job
Fort Wayne News Sentinel, IN - Apr 17, 2006
BY BRIAN NEWSOME. Ah, college life. Students studying on the manicured lawns of stately campuses. High school graduates leaving the ...
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SAT / ACT
College Board's response to incorrect scoring of SAT inadequate
Black & White, MD - Apr 19, 2006
Officials from the College Board should have informed colleges of the correct scores of all students affected by a scoring error on the October 2005 SAT, regardless of whether the score the student received was higher or lower than the reported one.
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Mixed opinion on SAT testing glitch
Kalamazoo Gazette, MI - Apr 16, 2006
While a recently reported SAT scoring glitch reinforces some educators' concerns about the college-admissions test, it's caused others to shrug. ...
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Finacial Aid - Scholarships
The ABC's of Financing a College Education
About - News & Issues, NY - Apr 19, 2006
... to uncover them. Most states and many colleges offer scholarships, so don't forget to inquire about them. College financial aid ...
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Rejection
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