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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.
Question of the Week
Parents: There is a story today on parents calling the admission office, demanding to know: Why "we " weren't accepted. Obviously there are extremes, but how much is too much involvement with the process.
Tell us the "perfect parental scenerio"
Question of the Week Blog
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College Admissions - Larger Picture
College Applications on the Rise, and So Are Rejections
ABC News - Apr 6, 2006
As applying to college becomes more competitive, high school students cast a wide net, sometimes applying to dozens of schools. As a result, many colleges and universities have issued a record number of rejections in the past year....
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US House approves changes to college aid
UO Oregon Daily Emerald, OR - Apr 6, 2006
bill passed in the U.S. House on Thursday made several key changes to the federal government's higher-education policy aimed at making colleges and universities more affordable and accessible. A congressional committee has worked on the College Access and Opportunities Act for three years, and many of the more controversial provisions and amendments were removed or defeated before it finally passed 221-199 along largely partisan lines in the Republican-controlled House
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Gender Gap
Don't favor boys over girls
USA Today - Apr 2, 2006
By Rachel Bolten. My mom is a proud graduate of Smith College. I've attended an all-girls school for the past seven years. When I ...
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Female enrollment growth worries colleges
Salt Lake Tribune, United States - Apr 3, 2006
The nation's elite private schools are regularly doing what would once have been unthinkable: bypassing qualified women for less qualified male students. ...
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College Admissions Process/Strategies
High schools learning when to hide info
Daily Pennsylvanian, PA - Apr 5, 2006
High school students are learning that in the college admissions process, less is more. An increasing number of high schools no longer provide class rank to colleges, a move that may give students an extra edge when applying to elite schools with shrinking acceptance rates...
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Some schools offer students a bigger boost than others
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - Apr 1, 2006
Fox Chapel Area High School guidance department chair Bob Alcorn considers his school to be on "the circuit."
Recruiters from more than 120 colleges and universities visited Fox Chapel last fall -- including Harvard, Princeton and Columbia -- hoping to land some of the school's more than 300 seniors ...
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Getting an education on college admissions
Los Angeles Times, CA - Apr 1, 2006
Karin Klein makes a good point that teenagers should have a life while in high school instead of joining "The Rat Race to a Top College" (Current, March 26). ...
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New Web Sites Offer Forums for Pre-Frosh
CU Columbia Spectator, NY - Apr 3, 2006
In the old days, receiving a thick envelope from Dream U. meant a call to a few close friends and dinner with parents. Not anymore. When thegame2388 found out she was accepted to Harvard, she wasn't shy about letting people know
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Anxiety/Choosing/Rejection
Nail-biting time for high school seniors
7Online.com, NY - Apr 4, 2006
WABC, April 4, 2006) - It's nail-biting time for high school seniors. They're waiting anxiously for those fat envelopes with college acceptances, and dreading the thin ones with bad news.
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stalking the big envelope
Lexington Herald Leader, KY - Apr 4, 2006
you've got a high school senior in your household, you know what season it is. Not Final Four season. And spring break barely creates a ripple in your collective consciousness.
It's the season of the Big Envelopes announcing college admission and financial aid package
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Web journals give more solace than sense
DetNews.com, MI - Apr 2, 2006
Fare on such Web sites as lunch-money.com ranges from college admissions committee serenades to rejection rants to good-luck meals. See full image. ...
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Counselors
Cheers for counselors
The Journal News.com, NY - Apr 1, 2006
One of the educators who does not get enough recognition is the guidance counselor, who today is part substitute parent, part teacher, part career activist. We salute the profession. These days, students see their guidance counselors more regularly than the one or twice a year of yore, or more often if you had serious academic trouble or discipline problems.
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Western News
Innovative program to connect academics with future careers
San Jose Mercury News, USA - Apr 6, 2006
Research suggests that high school students who can see a connection between their futures and what they are learning in school are more likely to persevere and graduate.
That's the goal of a new center that launched Wednesday: helping California high schools develop academically rigorous, hands-on career and college preparation programs to keep students engaged and in class...
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Struggling Students Want Vocational Education, Poll Shows
Los Angeles Times, CA - Apr 6, 2006
Most American high schools phased out vocational education years ago, motivated by complaints that it was used as a tool to "track" African American and Latino students into low-paying careers. But the idea of combining traditional academics with career training is making a comeback, and a poll released Wednesday suggests that it is popular among one particularly important group: struggling high school students. ...
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UW looking beyond test scores, GPA
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Apr 5, 2006
One student earned a 3.93 GPA but didn't take math or science senior year. Another played the violin, competed in tennis and volunteered at an animal shelter. Prospective students and their families stop at Red Square during a campus tour at the UW. The university is taking a "holistic" approach to admissions this year.
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Guaranteed college admission
San Mateo County Times, CA - Apr 3, 2006
Caada College officials recently signed an agreement that will make it easier for students there to transfer to Notre Dame de Namur University.
The agreement stipulates that any Caada student who graduates with a minimum grade-point average of 2.5 and is in good disciplinary standing is guaranteed admission to Notre Dame de Namur University. ..
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State to fund admissions test
Billings Gazette, USA - Mar 31, 2006
CASPER -- Beginning next year, Wyoming plans to offer the ACT college entrance test to all high school juniors for free. Only about two-thirds of Wyoming students currently take the test, which is used by college admission offices to measure student preparedness.
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Books
A 'How to Get Into College by Really, Really Trying' Novel
New York Times, United States - Apr 5, 2006
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Opal Mehta is the kind of girl who might get a half-million dollars for her first novel, completed during her freshman year at Harvard, followed by a movie deal with DreamWorks. After all, she started cello lessons at 5, studied four foreign languages beginning at 6, had near-perfect SAT scores and was president of three honors societies in high school...
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SAT / ACT
More universities are going SAT-optional
USA Today - Apr 4, 2006
selective liberal arts colleges that have chosen to make the SAT or ACT optional for students who seek admission; several others, including College of the Holy ...
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On some campuses, SAT test is DOA
Salem Statesman Journal, OR - Apr 2, 2006
... High-stakes standardized tests such as the SAT have assumed a central role in the admissions process disproportionate to their value. This test falls far short of predicting academic or career potential or important aptitudes, such as curiosity, motivation, persistence, leadership, creativity, civic engagement and social conscience...
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College Board Apologizes For Low SAT Scores
Caroll News, OH - Apr 3, 2006
The College Board has apologized to high school students and college admissions offices after recognizing that many more students received lower SAT scores than was first estimated. The board said March 22 that 27,000 of the 495,000 tests taken in October were not completely rescanned ...
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Private Counselors
Educational consultant makes the grade
Toronto Sun, Canada - Apr 5, 2006
People will pay for expertise. If you're a specialist in a certain area, consider hanging it out as your small business shingle. "I had long thought about becoming an educational consultant specializing in university admissions," says entrepreneur Norman S. Smith, Ed.D. ...
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Paying for Help to Get Into Ivies
CU Columbia Spectator, NY - Apr 3, 2006
The headquarters of the consulting company IvyWise, located in a tower next door to Carnegie Hall, seems at first as inaccessible as the colleges to which it promises admission. But upon entering the big, open office, one is put immediately at ease: it feels like a neatnik's dorm room, decorated with cushy rugs, shelves of college guides, and color-coordinated accessories ...
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Parents
Wrong Answer
Washington Post, United States - Mar 31, 2006
The admission office phones rang off the hook after the decisions were posted online. Between 8:30 a.m. and noon on the morning of April 5, 2005, I answered 18 decision-related phone calls -- 16 from parents, one from a guidance counselor and only one from an actual applicant. The parents were upset, wanting to know why "we" had been wait-listed ...
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Finacial Aid - Scholarships
Ivies fight bidding war with new aid policies
Daily Pennsylvanian, PA - Apr 5, 2006
By tali yahalom. As more Ivy League schools expand their financial-aid policies, officials say that elite schools are finding themselves in a bidding war. ...
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Fishing For College Aid? Cast A Wide Net
Hartford Courant, United States - Apr 5, 2006
By EILEEN ALT POWELL, Associated Press. NEW YORK -- It's panic time in many American homes as parents struggle to evaluate the financial ...
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Study up on college scholarships
Kansas City Star, MO - Apr 3, 2006
A few tips from Stephen H. Joyce, director of student aid at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine: Make sure you know the total ...
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Get More Financial Aid
Smartmoney.com - Apr 5, 2006
IF YOU'VE GOT A high school senior in your home, chances are you've been paying extra special attention to your mail box. Fat envelopes good, skinny ones bad. That's right, it's college acceptance time. And while your biggest concern right now may simply be knowing that your kid has been accepted somewhere, once you've got a few yeses to choose from, your anxiety will likely to turn to those financial aid offers. ...
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