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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.
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.
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The great disconnect
Newsday, NY - Jun 25, 2006
High schools know too little of what colleges expect from students, but better dialogue should help...
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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. ...
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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? ...
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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 ...
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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
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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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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Midwest
MMC Offering Fast Track Admissions
Yankton Daily Press, SD - Jun 26, 2006
... Fast Track Admissions Day allow (registration required) students to get an admission decision on the spot, determine how much financial aid they could receive, find out what college ...
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Pushing students higher
Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH - Jun 27, 2006
Bob Taft's proposal to toughen high school graduation requirements is good for the entire state - including its four-year colleges and universities. Yet some institutions of higher learning appear more focused on the plan's impact on their enrollments than its potential advantages to students
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Pawlenty pitches free tuition plan
Duluth News Tribune, MN - Jun 28, 2006
Gov. Tim Pawlenty offered a deal Tuesday to Minnesota students: Graduate in the top 25 percent of your high school class or score well on college entrance exams and go tuition-free to any Minnesota public college.
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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...
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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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Affirmative
Summer
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Midwest
SAT & ACTs
Funding
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