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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.
Announcement
High School Counselor Week - Syndication
Announcement, Bedford, MA - Nov 26, 2006
Several counselors, who have shared their HS Counselor Week with parents, have reported enthusiasm by the parents for this new source of information. College hunting, after all, is new to them, important, infrequent and ultimately expensive. Many parents apparently believe that the information in the newsletter will help them work with the counselor for the best possible results for their family...[more]
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College Admissions - Larger Picture
A well-meaning end to discrimination
Boston Globe, United States - Dec 11, 2006
By Cathy Young | December 11, 2006. DEPENDING ON who you talk to, the passage of Proposal 2 in Michigan last month was either a great ...
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College Admissions - Larger Picture Cost Issues
How to contain college costs
San Francisco Chronicle, USA - Dec 12, 2006
... Greater accountability is also needed in federally guaranteed student loans, which represent nearly one-third of all funding for college tuition in the United ...
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College Admissions Process/Strategies
Holiday break is crunch time for college applicants
San Francisco Chronicle, USA - Dec 14, 2006
High school students go on holiday break this weekend, but many seniors won't get much rest because they will be holed up at home or taking the laptops along ...
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Countdown to college
OregonLive.com, OR - Dec 14, 2006
Small-town campus in a big city. Strong academic focus with a wide-range of offerings. Close to home, yet not too far away. Ask any high school senior deciding which college to attend what the ideal school ...
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College Admissions - Tips and Techniques
Cut college 'sticker price' with subject tests
OregonLive.com, OR - Dec 7, 2006
Imagine you're at your local car dealership, salivating for that hot, red convertible you've been eyeing for months. Suddenly you notice the factory rebate, dealer incentives and willingness of the salesman to wheel and deal. Before you know it, you've just cut a major chunk off the sticker price...
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College Admissions Essays
Striving for that winning college essay
Newsday, NY - Dec 9, 2006
Each September, students start Kathi Reilly's English elective cool and confident -- they are seniors, after all. But as the weeks pass, they seem to get younger, more vulnerable ...
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West
Board plans AP class audits
Pasadena Star-News, CA - Dec 10, 2006
... The audit grew out of concerns raised at a 2004 conference of high school educators and college admissions officials that the AP label was applied too often to ...
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College costs rise nationally but tools available to help Colorado ...
Hispania News, CO - Dec 14, 2006
...CollegeInColorado.org is a free website offered by the Colorado Department of Higher Education to help students and their parents plan, apply and pay for college. Visitors to the site can explore careers, plan academically for college, search scholarships, review financial aid, compare colleges and apply online...
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Seductive appeal of community colleges
Ventura County Star (subscription), CA - Dec 13, 2006
By Jef Kurfess. To begin, I am not criticizing Moorpark College or the community- college system. Moorpark, I know, has high standards ...
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Private Counselors
University admission aid for sale
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, GA - Dec 11, 2006
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. – With her daughter's collegiate career at stake, Miriam Schafer delved into the at-times byzantine world of admissions headlong...
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Students seek help with admissions process from private college ...
Paly Voice, CA - Dec 7, 2006
The pressure to be accepted to an elite college is everywhere. SAT prep books, frazzled, overextended students and magazine articles about getting into the perfect college are all everyday reminders of this pressure. As colleges become increasingly selective, more students than ever are turning to private college counselors for help with the admissions process. ...
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Choosing a career path
Durham region news, Canada - Dec 12, 2006
PORT PERRY -- The stress of choosing a career, and deciding where to pursue that dream, has done very little to ruffle Janet Griffen ...
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SATs & ACTs
No standardized admissions
Baltimore Sun, United States - Dec 7, 2006
Salisbury University on the Eastern Shore has become the first school in Maryland's public university system to make tests such as the SAT optional for students with average grades of 3.5 or better on a 4-point scale....
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Schools not so high on the SAT
The Gloucester County Times, NJ - Dec 10, 2006
Standardized tests for high school students seeking college admission have spawned a multi-million dollar industry and a fair share of anxiety for generations...
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College Loans
ABCs of College Loans
Barron's (subscription) - Dec 10, 2006
ONE WAY TO JUDGE whether the resurgent democrats are making good on their recent campaign promises will be to check student–loan Websites in coming months...
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 Big Picture
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Process/Strat
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Essay
West
Pvt Counselor
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