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More Lazy Days Of Summer
We will be taking a break in July from publishing HS Counselor Week. This is our first year and are just figuring out the various cycles. With most of the counselors off for July we thought we would join them. Look for HS Counselor Week starting back up in August.
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College Admissions - Larger Picture

100 best values in public colleges
MSN Money - Jun 23, 2006
Even with tuition climbing at double-digit rates, there are deals to be had. Kiplinger's survey shines a spotlight on schools that combine great academics with reasonable costs. ...
The great disconnect
Newsday, NY - Jun 25, 2006
High schools know too little of what colleges expect from students, but better dialogue should help...
Movin' On Up
Inside Higher Ed, DC - Jun 29, 2006
The message was simple: The campus culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill limits access to community college students. ...
An "A" for Access, a "C" for Success
TC Columbia University, NY - Jun 29, 2006
Community colleges were created in 1947 by the President's Commission on Higher Education to give all Americans low-cost access to public higher education. Some 60 years later, they've delivered on that promise - but not, for the most part, on the successful lives that were meant to follow.
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College Admissions - Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action Sacrifices Students
CBS News - Jun 28, 2006
What if proponents of affirmative action are wrong? That is, what if racial-preference policies don't increase the numbers of minorities who graduate from colleges, law schools, etc, but rather, do just the opposite? ...
Face to Face
Inside Higher Ed, DC - Jun 28, 2006
Administrators in the California State University system had already decided "we have to go to them," as Charles B. Reed, chancellor of the California ...
Falling Through the Cracks
Standard-Speaker, PA - Jun 23, 2006
Daniel Spangenburger has two jobs and is at the top of his class. So why aren't the best colleges courting him? ...
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Summer

No More Lazy Days Of Summer: Increasingly, teens cram vacation ...
The Register-Guard, Oregon - Jun 26, 2006
By Alex Williams. To listen to Craig Nadler, you might wonder when it stopped being fun to be a teenager. Maybe it was during this past school year. ...
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College Admissions Process/Strategies

It takes a network of support
Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH - Jun 27, 2006
Four years ago, Kimberly Vargas left Cleveland's James Ford Rhodes High School and headed east to Harvard University. She may have ...
Head start on college
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Jun 26, 2006
Anna Tang, of Pleasant Hills, has discovered that the college environment is very different from the environment in high school -- and the 16-year-old still ...
It's not too early
Prince William News, VA - Jun 28, 2006
The classes that you take in eighth grade are important in deciding what classes you will take in high school. Take the harder classes so that you will be ready for college prep classes.
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College Recruiting

TargetX Introduces 1st Online Planner for College Recruiters
PR Web (press release), WA - Jun 27, 2006
Bristol, PA (PRWEB) June 27, 2006 -- Interactive recruiting firm TargetX today launched the first online planning tool to help colleges keep up with the dizzying array of communications and events necessary to recruit today's students...
Small college, big decision
Columbus Dispatch, OH - Jun 27, 2006
After passing for 3,072 yards and 28 touchdowns as a senior, Hartley quarterback Marty Assmann took for granted that Division I college recruiters would be knocking down his door with scholarship offers. ...
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Northeast

Grading changes won't affect university admissions
Fairfield Minuteman, CT - Jun 27, 2006
Parents of high-achieving Fairfield Warde and Fairfield Ludlowe high school students are concerned that a new grade weighting system will result in lower grade ...
Delaware State's goal of improving student qualifications in doubt
The News Journal, DE - Jun 27, 2006
Allegations that Delaware State University admissions staff was pressured to accept unqualified students cut to the heart of the school's reputation and the credibility of President Allen Sessoms as a change agent...
Champlain College to Prospective Students: BYOBiz -- Young ...
AScribe - Jun 28, 2006
BURLINGTON, Vt., June 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Courses in entrepreneurship populate America's campuses, but Champlain College is blending coursework with an idea that is, well, entrepreneurial. Known for its innovative, hands-on education, Champlain calls its newest program BYOBiz, or Bring Your Own Business, which launches this fall. ...
Providing Access to Education: College Creates Scholarship Program ...
AScribe - Jun 29, 2006
BURLINGTON, Vt., June 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new need-based scholarship program is providing refugee and asylum students access to higher education in a ....
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SAT & ACT

Students face multiple choice in tests
Winston-Salem Journal (subscription), NC - Jun 24, 2006
Once, a high-school student's big worry was taking a college admissions test. Today, a college-bound student first must worry about which test to take - the SAT or the ACT...
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Funding News

Tuition 101: Higher rates don't add up
Newsday, NY - Jun 27, 2006
When student loan interest rates are reset for a year on Saturday and the overall cost of a college education goes up by thousands of dollars, students and their parents should demand to know why they are paying significantly more for school these days and receiving substantially less...
College student, parents, crunch numbers
Sunbury Daily Item, PA - Jun 25, 2006
Her diploma in hand, Shikellamy High School graduate Anna Jimenez is looking forward to the next phase of her young life: college. And her parents are bracing for the bill...
 
 

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