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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
Two-year colleges' appeal heats up
DetNews.com, MI - Jan 26, 2006
Community colleges are best known as steppingstones: students with dubious academic records, shaky finances or no family tradition of higher education often spend two years at a community college gaining confidence before transferring to a more glamorous ...
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A Losing Strategy?
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - Jan 23, 2006
Looking to out-of-state students to close budget gaps backfires for some public colleges ...
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The value of education has never been greater
Minnesota Daily, MN - Jan 24, 2006
sign tacked next to the bowling alley in the basement of Coffman Union serves as an irreverent reminder for why many of us have come to the University: "Education: the next best thing to a record deal." ...
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Columnist delves into what drives education gap
Gainesville Sun, FL - Jan 24, 2006
The children of America
's power elite begin competing for slots at Harvard right out of the womb, and that's what's pushing them to the front of the pack, according to New York Times columnist David Brooks....
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College gender gap widening
Port Huron Times Herald, MI - Jan 26, 2006
By BILL CHAPIN. Outside the dental classrooms at Baker College of Port Huron, eight frames show photos of students in the dental-hygiene program since 1998. ...
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College Admissions Process/Strategies
Do you need 'inspiration' in that essay?
Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX - Jan 22, 2006
College admissions officers around the country will be reading my application essays this month, essays in which I describe personal aspirations, academic goals -- even, in one case, a budding passion for the sitar. What they won't know is that I actually graduated from college more than a year ago, and that the names attached to these essays are those of my duplicitous clients ...
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College-application process exasperating but instructive
Petaluma Argus-Courier, CA - Jan 26, 2006
. gasped. I swore. I cringed. I cried. I swore some more. I was rejected -- or rather, I was deferred. That drizzly, dismal afternoon the two were commensurate, equally disheartening and doom-spelling: not getting in meant more waiting
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Parents
College concerns parents more than retirement
Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH - Jan 22, 2006
New York- All those reports about the rising cost of a college education appear to be having an impact on the savings patterns of American families. A survey finds that parents with children under age 18 are more concerned about saving for their children's educations than they are about saving for retirement...
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SAT and ACT
SAT renews importance of penmanship
Greenwich Time, CT - Jan 24, 2006
It is National Handwriting Week, and Americans, especially students, should take a look at the "lost art" of penmanship, according to a handwriting expert. With the SAT college entrance exam now including a written portion, handwriting has returned to the thoughts of students who might have last received handwriting help when they were learning addition and subtraction.
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New SAT means new worries for some students
Marion Chronicle Tribune, IN - Jan 24, 2006
Eastbrook High School junior Alyssa Holtzleiter is a little worried about taking the new version of the SAT exam Saturday. She will be taking the reformatted exam, which includes a new writing section and places more emphasis on third-year college preparatory math skills
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Northeast News
NE colleges preparing for drop in local students
Boston Globe, United States - Jan 23, 2006
As they prepare for expected declines in their states' college-age population, New England public colleges are ramping up recruitment across the country in the ...
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Champlain College unveils new scholarship program for refugees
BurlingtonFreePress.com, VT - Jan 26, 2006
Zlatko Mladenovic of Middlebury has lived in Bosnia, Germany and Vermont during his 17 years of life. He's hoping that with the help of a new Champlain College scholarship program,
he won't have to move again just to attend college.
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Many Top Connecticut Students Do Not Attend College
AACRAO Transcript, DC - Jan 20, 2006
Nearly one in ten students with high scores on a state achievement test did not attend college in the five years after they graduated, according to a study that tracked graduates of the Connecticut high school class of 1998...
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Kick Start To College
13WHAM-TV, NY - Jan 25, 2006
(Ithaca, NY/Rochester, NY) 01/25/06 -- Thanks to a partnership between the Rochester City School District and Ithaca College, two students in the Global Media ...
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State Hoping To Pump Up High Schools
Hartford Courant, United States - Jan 25, 2006
If 18-year-old Jose Rios could do it all over again, he would get ready for college by taking tougher courses during high school. ...
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College Costs Issues
Four Ways To Save Big On College
CBS News - Jan 21, 2006
For families facing college bills either in the near future or several years down the line, the picture isn't pretty. Grants have become a shrinking slice of the student-aid pie, boosting the importance of cost containment. In addition, college costs keep rising faster than inflation...
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Coping with the cost of college
CNN - Jan 24, 2006
5NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - College costs are going to hurt more. The government is cutting support for college loans. And in six months, interest rates on the cheapest money students and parents can borrow is going to rise.
In today's top 5 Tips we're going to tell you how you can be prepared to face the tuition bill...
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Seven Myths About College Scholarships
Better Homes and Gardens - Jan 22, 2006
When searching for scholarships, part of the challenge is to follow the best advice you can find. Another part is to ignore advice that's misguided. ...
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College Admission Tools
Take a campus tour on videotape
South Bend Tribune, IN - Jan 24, 2006
.You've taken the SATs and bounded into your guidance counselor's office a dozen times. But if you're one of millions of befuddled high school students, you probably still don't know which college is ideal for you...
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Financial Aid
Ask Uncle Sam for college help
Newsday, NY - Jan 22, 2006
Peterson's, part of The Thomson Corp., provides educational information, college guides, career tips and practice exams. On its Web site, www.petersons.com, the Lawrenceville, N.J.-based company recently posted this guide to the federal government Free Application for Federal Student Aid...
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Financial Aid to Be Slashed
MSNBC - Jan 20, 2006
If you're a college student, a prospective college student, or the parent of some such person, take note: Congress is looking to pass the largest cut in student financial aid in American history. Yikes!...
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Families confront financial aid maze
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Jan 22, 2006
By Stephanie Ritenbaugh and Tamara Simpson. No matter whom you talk to about getting financial aid for college, the mantra's the same: File the FAFSA. ...
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US to alter college aid program
The Dartmouth, NH - Jan 25, 2006
High schools across America may be forced to have the rigor of their curricula vetted by the federal government in order for their students to be eligible for new grants under a budget bill pending in Congress...
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Counselors in the News
Listen, counselors can make a difference
Huntsville Times, AL - Jan 25, 2006
... At Bob Jones High School, the counselors include Johnny Fowler, Andrea Jones ... She has worked as a counselor with Madison City Schools since its inception.
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School Violence and Bullies
Cape mom fights for anti-bullying bill
The News-Press, FL - Jan 24, 2006
By Jason Wermers. Many people laugh off bullying as something that happens to everyone, something children can eventually outgrow. ...
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Battling the school bullies
Wisconsin State Journal, WI - Jan 24, 2006
"I got pushed around and called names," said Kavon, who also felt "sad and angry.". Now Brianna and Kavon, along with other third ...
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