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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
Who Needs Harvard?
TIME - Aug 12, 2006
Competition for the Ivies is as fierce as ever, but kids who look beyond the famous schools may be the smartest applicants of all
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How VIPs Get In
TIME - Aug 13, 2006
Growing numbers of kids may be discovering that they no longer need Harvard, but according to Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Golden, the Ivies still feel a need for certain kinds of kids. Golden won a Pulitzer Prize in 2004 for his articles on the admissions advantage élite schools give to the children of alumni (known as legacies...
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College Admissions Process/Strategies
Choosing a College: Liberal Arts vs. Professional Training
FOX News - Aug 16, 2006
When Arpie McQueen, a New Jersey mother of two, was helping her oldest daughter Valerie last year choose among five colleges that offered a wide range of liberal arts and pre-professional degree programs, she steered her in the direction of Boston University a school that offered both ...
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'Today' readers get college admission advice
MSNBC - Aug 14, 2006
Parents can help their kids get into top schools. Elizabeth Wissner-Gross, author of 'What Colleges Don't Tell You,' shares tips for better applications ...
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The College Essay
The Chronicle, CT - Aug 16, 2006
... Yet in the following months, seniors will be asked to fill out their applications and submit their college essays. ...
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Back a grade to make the grade?
Dallas Morning News (subscription), TX - Aug 15, 2006
Most teenagers can't wait to get out of high school, but a group of Collin County teens has decided to repeat freshman year voluntarily. Nearly a dozen would-be sophomores have pulled out of Allen High School and private schools this year to enroll as ninth-graders at Lovejoy High School in Lucas. Many other families have considered it
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College for C students
Contra Costa Times, CA - Aug 15, 2006
... to the people who don't already know that college is an option for them. Straight-A students already have this figured out. It's the C students who need the ...
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College Admissions Books
College Rankings
Colleges Play the Rankings Game
ABC News - Aug 17, 2006
By MELISSA SOWRY. Aug. 17, 2006 - The American public loves rankings, from sports teams to restaurants, and colleges are no exception. ...
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25 New Ivies
Newsweek - Aug 12, 2006
The nation's elite colleges these days include more than Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Why? It's the tough competition for all the top students. That means a range of schools are getting fresh bragging rights ...
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Rank Colleges, but Rank Them Right
New York Times, United States - Aug 16, 2006
EARLY this morning, US News & World Report will send e-mail messages to hundreds of college administrators, giving them an advance peek at the magazine's...
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Colleges ranked on social giving
Seattle Times, United States - Aug 16, 2006
Ask not what your college is doing for you, but what your college is doing for the country. That's the premise of a college-rankings list devised by the political magazine ...
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West
A look at Washington's prepaid college plan
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Aug 16, 2006
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. PAY NOW, STUDY LATER: Washington sponsors the Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) program that allows families ...
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High school kids try college
Los Angeles Daily News, CA - Aug 17, 2006
BY SUE DOYLE, Staff Writer. By 7:30 am, it stretched across campus and was filled with bleary-eyed parents and their teens, some still in pajamas. ...
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IN MY OPINION - AFFORDING AN EDUCATION
OregonLive.com, OR - Aug 16, 2006
The 12,000 students who graduated from Oregon's public universities this year set a new, if unenviable, record: They paid more for their educations than any students who preceded them in our lifetimes ...
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LOOKING FOR WAYS TO REDUCE HIGHER ED COSTS
KPVI-TV, ID - Aug 16, 2006
Now to a growing concern over the cost of higher education. The Idaho legislature is now looking at ways to reduce overall cost to future students and they are turning to community colleges for an answer. Aaron Kunz reports. ...
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New Mexico public schools will share GEAR UP money
New Mexico Business Weekly, NM - Aug 16, 2006
The New Mexico Higher Education Department has received $3 million of an $18 million, six-year grant through the U.S. Department of Education's college preparatory program, Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP).
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Black Colleges Bring Black Males To School -- Highest Numbers Ever
New California Media, CA - Aug 16, 2006
Picture this: Morehouse running back J.D. Washington strolling across the stage to receive his college degree his proud papa shouting "That's my boy." The May 2006 graduation was emblematic not just for two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington and wife Pauletta but for the battered image of America's Black male.
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College - Cost Issues
You don't have to be rich to attend college
Dailyrecord.com, NJ - Aug 13, 2006
In a world where eight out of 10 jobs require a college education, only 7 percent of low-income families and 60 percent of children from affluent families earn college degrees...
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Prepay Your Way to College
Newsweek - Aug 14, 2006
A plan that's simple, provides peace of mind and gives buyers equal access to federal student aid. What's not to like? ...
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Instate College Tuition Waivers Pay Dividends In Family ...
Expansion Management, OH - Aug 16, 2006
The decision to attend college is often laden with anticipation over a litany of matters: admittance procedures, test scores and acceptance, transfer of credits, and for young students, life away from home for the first time...
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College Admissions - Start Early
Don't stress, just plan early for college
The Grand Rapids Press, MI - Aug 12, 2006
Angie Kellar is a seventh-grader at Comstock Park Middle School, so the 12-year-old isn't thinking too seriously about college yet.
But when the time comes, she will have help navigating the college planning maze.
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College Search Starts Early
Daily Press, VA - Aug 14, 2006
Dana Bartlett is trying to get ahead of the curve with the college application process now, before challenging courses dominate her time starting in September. ...
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SAT & ACT
For SAT Maker, a Broader Push to the Classroom
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL - Aug 16, 2006
To generations of students and their teachers, the College Board has been synonymous with the SAT test. But these days it has broader ambitions and wants to reach deeply into high school and even middle school classrooms nationwide.
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More Students Eyeing College Opt to Take ACT
Washington Post, United States - Aug 15, 2006
Scores on the ACT, the college entrance test rival to the SAT, increased for the high school class of 2006, as a record 1.2 million graduating seniors took the nearly three-hour exam...
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SAT prep tools offer great advantages
Monsters and Critics.com, UK - Aug 14, 2006
COLUMBUS, OH, United States (UPI) -- US students from higher-income families are most likely to use SAT preparation tools, thereby giving them an advantage in ...
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HS Bullying, Dropouts, and Tests
Bullying Destructive to the Bullied and Bullies, Intervention ...
Newswise (press release) - Aug 15, 2006
Being bullied in school is not merely a "normal part of life" that many children must just learn to deal with. Instead, it's a socially unacceptable behavior that must be swiftly and properly addressed, because it carries destructive effects to both the bully and the victim, reports...
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Life after leaving high school
Terre Haute Tribune Star, IN - Aug 16, 2006
... Yet, his dreams are far from reality. Dropping out of high school at 18, Hites is now looking at a job washing dishes. Now 19 and facing $7.25 an hour, he may not be able to move out of his parents' house...
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Exit exams become part of high school landscape
USA Today - Aug 16, 2006
WASHINGTON - Nearly two-thirds of American public high school students live in states that expect them to pass a competency test before they get a diploma, though not all states require the same level of proficiency...
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 Big Picture
Process/Strat
Guides
Rankings
West
Cost Issues
Early Start
SAT & ACT
HS - Issues
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